Sentence examples for strict intended from inspiring English sources

The California legislation is strict, intended to ensure that patients have thought through the decision and are making it voluntarily.

Another reason is powerful government incentives, especially in California, that have imposed strict regulations intended to help reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

Both companies, though, would be forced to adhere to strict rules intended to rein in the way they wield their power in the marketplace.

And in a statement, Gov. George W. Bush of Texas said he advocated strict laws intended to prevent teenagers from smoking and added that "tobacco regulation should be made by Congress and state legislatures".

In May, Kentucky's unionist legislature — which refused to call a secession convention despite demands from the state's governor, Beriah Magoffin — had declared itself "independent of both sides," a strict neutrality intended to "compel both sides to respect the inviolability of her soil".

In the European Union, meanwhile, despite strict rules intended to stop states from giving an unfair advantage to "national champions", France and Germany have rushed to prop up three of Ford's main competitors.Ford escaped the fate of the other two Detroit carmakers by tapping credit markets just before they began to freeze over.

WASHINGTON, July 28 - John D. Negroponte, the new director of national intelligence, has imposed strict safeguards intended to ensure that the government's National Intelligence Estimates are based on credible information instead of the kinds of unsubstantiated claims that were the basis for prewar intelligence on Iraq, his top deputy said Thursday.

Homeland Security officials, who process petitions for international adoption, say that stricter standards intended to combat corruption have also played a role.

Paradoxically, stricter regulation intended to tame banks that were thought too big to fail is leading to the creation of even bigger and more systemically important institutions.

Under a 2003 settlement with Eliot Spitzer, New York State's attorney general at the time, equity analysts were no longer allowed to get paid from the investment banking pool and were forced to follow stricter regulations intended to curb conflicts of interest.

WASHINGTON — The number of foreign children adopted by Americans has plunged to its lowest level in more than a decade as some countries have cut back on adoptions to the United States and others have struggled to meet stricter standards intended to combat corruption and child trafficking, government officials said Thursday.