The Canadian government introduced the most stringent antiterrorism legislation in the country's history this week, allowing preventive arrests and broader electronic surveillance.
It has some of the most stringent anti-smoking legislation in the world as a result of President Tabaré Vázquez's period of office that ended in 2010.
Foes of the law note the paradox that Italy, which sent millions of migrants abroad a century ago and again after World War II, should adopt some of Europe's most stringent anti-immigrant legislation.
Even for these institutionally embedded and well-resourced actors the scope for unchoreographed dissent is increasingly limited, and this holds true with regards to not only protest and public order law but also some of the most stringent anti-strike legislation in the OECD.
Australia, where glossy packages were consigned to the dustbin of history in 2012, has the most stringent anti-smoking legislation in the world.
In mid-January, the New York State Assembly moved quickly to approve the country's most stringent gun control legislation barely one month after the Newtown tragedy, including limits on assault weapons, mental health requirements and ammunition magazines.
And, it is a state that enacted some of the some most stringent anti-immigration legislation, SB170, in the country and banned schools from offering courses such as Mexican-American studies that federal courts have partially overturned.
We now have one of the most stringent set of firearms legislation in the world – only Japan has tougher laws".
He called Texas' voter law the "most stringent, harshest voter identification legislation in the country".
While pressure increases on the Obama administration for a long-anticipated and much-promised overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, Arizona is moving ahead with anti-illegal-immigrant legislation widely considered among the most stringent in the states.
