The frontbench would in turn grumble that their voices were being stifled by the disciplinarian system for signing off announcements in case they ranged off-message or implied spending commitments (a stricture that gave Balls considerable power of veto).
In other words, within the confines of a chilly spending climate and the strictures of the NHS funding model, improvements can be made by managers who take the efficiency challenge seriously and strive for the best deal for their patients and their staff.
Liberals wanted to spend the billions Brown stockpiled -- without constitutional strictures limiting its spending -- while conservatives seized on it as a rationale to cut property taxes.
In March last year, after spending nearly two decades under the strictures of an IMF programme, Bolivia let its agreement with the fund end.
Mr. Lou has spent his entire career working around the strictures of censorship: "Weekend Lover" (1993), his first film, was banned for two years; "Suzhou River" was shot without permits and remains banned.
Nor is it bound by most of the strictures of financial reporting that make spending at Gates transparent and publicly accountable.
That's the only conclusion one can draw from the figures for GDP growth in the final quarter of 2015, which show that galloping services sector output more than made up for the damage done to factory orders by the downturn in global trade and the strictures placed by George Osborne on government spending.
But the big donations that jump-started the insurgency of Eugene McCarthy, the anti-war candidate who prompted Lyndon Johnson not to seek re-election in 1968, would be illegal today.Newspapers and television stations are exempt from the strictures of McCain-Feingold, so they can spend vast sums supporting or hounding political candidates without fear of reprisal.
Spending, see the dictionary, deals primarily with money, but its strictures extend to life as a whole: "to consume, employ, use super-fluously, wastefully, or with undue lavishness; to waste or squander; to throw away".
For a country with a traditionally more expansive view of public spending than Germany, that fact and the German call for new strictures involving the euro mean a blow to French competitiveness (through ongoing German wage restraint) that could signal an end to the notional parity of power between the two countries.
