Better Together leader Alistair Darling said he was unable to remember a time when the Bank of England had been forced to "rebuke a politician in such stringent terms".
At the same time, the Eritrean regime's violation of international humanitarian conventions for the treatment of prisoners, such as ensuring adequate food, medical care and other basic rights, needs to be highlighted in the most stringent terms.
New Jersey has the largest state-based student loan program in the country, with particularly stringent terms that can lead to financial ruin, as ProPublica and the New York Times recently detailed.
One supplier told the Guardian it had stopped trading with the group in recent months rather than risk not getting paid if it encounters financial difficulties while others have asked for stringent terms such as payments in advance.
Half the MPs in parliament would be on the streets if these stringent terms applied to them, but the double standard does not trouble our leaders.
Still, lenders are typically demanding more stringent terms, including higher down payments compared with those required in the boom years.
He cited precedents in other Commonwealth jurisdictions including Nigeria to indicate that suspects in drug trafficking cases were entitled to bail, but said he had decided to impose unusually stringent terms to reflect the seriousness of the case.
Hedge funds, which poured $15 billion into Hollywood over the last three years, have retreated in the current credit crunch, but bankers say entertainment companies are continuing to get access to capital through deals with more stringent terms to protect backers.
This explains the lack of mass loss observed in stringent, short-term in vitro analysis.
When he was released, in early 2000, they slapped on a stringent term of probation, forbidding him from using a telephone or computer or connecting to the internet for three years.
