Reacting against his lowlife father, John D. ruthlessly built an empire, making secret deals with the railroads, putting smaller oil companies out of business, never losing a night's sleep over it while instructing his children in strict Christian self-denial.
The denial of strict laws of these forms is consistent with allowing hedged versions of them which are qualified by a ceteris paribus clause.
With this assumption in place, Davidson's subsequent denial of strict laws incorporating mental predicates amounts to denying that there can be more than one fully adequate and complete (i.e., strict) explanation of any physical event.
The government accused her of breaking the country's strict laws regarding genocide denial, and she was arrested in April 2010.
The Reverend Frederick Cavell was a stern Victorian paterfamilias who ruled his family along strict Christian lines: prayer, self-denial and duty to others.
Born in 1863, she was brought up to strict Victorian values of self-denial and domestic duty by a mother keen to keep her in a state of feminine docility.
Old age fostered self-denial and a strict discipline in Hals, along with a new freedom in his painting.
As explained in a note at the beginning, the book is "a mixture of fiction and non-fiction" and this denial of any strict requirement for reality allows Dyer's stories to really flex and flow.
A ruling holding that classifications based on sexual orientation should be subject to strict scrutiny, and that the denial of the fundamental right to marriage cannot possibly survive such scrutiny, would be preferable and more consistent with the values of the US constitution – if it were possible.
Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism delineated how the take-off of capitalism, with its unprecedented productivity feeding a corresponding take-off in the wealth and power of nations, was made possible by an ethic of strict discipline, unceasing work, and denial of gratification in favor of continual investment.
