Switzerland's rules for foreigners wishing to buy vacation homes have always been stringent, with limits on the number of sales by canton.
Despite these limitations, our study was stringent with respect to the standardized timing of sample collection and dietary intake (i.e., serum after a 12-h fast) as well as correlation with liver histological analysis.
"They've modified the fences at Aintree, for example, and they really are stringent with the use of the whip". More than £200,000 is on offer in prize money over the Perth Festival, with more than 10,000 members of the public expected at the course over the next three days.
The primary endpoint of the EXPLORER study was stringent, with complete and partial response definitions as follows.
We acknowledge that our definition of severe oral health impairment was stringent, with the criteria requiring the reporting of dental pain AND dissatisfaction with appearance AND difficulties eating.
Second, the criteria for admission to an intensive care unit at our institution are stringent; with rare exceptions, only patients with acute cardiac or respiratory failure are admitted to an ICU.
Rules on background medication use were stringent, with any increase from baseline dose of immunosuppressives, corticosteroids or antimalarial medication at any time during the study classified as a treatment failure.
The co-op board is stringent but, if presented with an all-cash offer and the credit score of Plutus, persuadable.
Superconducting magnets are stringent for fusion reactors with magnetic confinement to provide an economic energy balance.
Referee Dave Pearson was stringent at the breakdown and with two minutes of the second half gone Sarries were penalised for not releasing the tackled player.
Yet, this filtering may not be stringent enough when dealing with insufficiently annotated genomes.
