Such strictures suited the policies of governments concerned about finding employment for returned and returning servicemen after World War II.
But we should not make law out of stricture, nor should we establish policy based on religious perspectives alone.
"It's an awful policy and violates all of the N.S.A.'s strictures, and if you complain about it you're out," he said.
The regular flow of assessments looking six months to a year ahead will not, it is hoped, be diminished, and Lord Butler's strictures about not mixing analysis with policy prescription will be, it is hoped, observed.
Disenfranchisement and restoration policies represent a kind of "crazy quilt" of strictures that differ not just among states, but among counties, cities and towns as well.
When the Army contracted with Harvard to conduct clinical studies, demanding that the university conform to policies shaped by Nuremberg, the university insisted on looser strictures.
Newsrooms all over America have ethics policies they fuss over and debate, but all those strictures and best intentions are really beside the point once a sensational story rings the bell.
Armed with a two-thirds majority in parliament, he seemed this morning to be on a mission to transform the country after the mess that the previous Socialist government had left behind.Yes, he said, there have been controversies over many of his policies, including taxes on big businesses, turning down IMF strictures, and extending citizenship to ethnic Hungarians in neighbouring countries.
It is the responsibility of public health policy analysts to expose any efforts at purposely obscuring the strictures of policy making.
Fiscal policy is no better, hamstrung in the euro area by the strictures of the stability and growth pact.
Those who have heaped scorn on European policy makers of the past three years tend to forget that, despite their strictures, the process of expansion has continued.
