Sentence examples for strict term from inspiring English sources

Many Latin countries adopted strict term limits in the 1970s and '80s to check authoritarian impulses after years of dictatorships.

A near-majority of the Council has apparently decided that voters were wrong when they agreed -- twice -- to impose strict term limits on New York's elected officials.

A little more than 10 years after a voters' revolt placed strict term limits on many state and local offices, politicians in seven states have started to fight back with efforts to ease those limits.

As Jay Barth, a politics professor at Hendrix College in Arkansas, notes, thanks to strict term limits the Legislature in Little Rock doesn't develop strong leadership and discipline; it is susceptible to populist charisma — from right and left, but these days mostly right.

Proposition 28 would slightly loosen the State's strict term limits for lawmakers, cutting the number of years they may serve from 14 to 12 but allowing them to complete the entire time in either the Assembly or Senate, which they cannot do now.

First elected in 1970, Mr Chambers is the longest-serving member of Nebraska's legislature and something of a thorn in the side of the state's conservative majority, whom he has irritated on issues ranging from police powers to gay rights.That majority will no longer have to put up with him after 2008, thanks to a strict term-limit law that Nebraska passed in 2000.

We adhere to strict terms of engagement and actively seek to blacklist inappropriate sites.

In strict terms, Reagan's neglect of the deficit wasn't Keynesian.

But the deals were inevitably made on Mr. Jobs's strict terms.

That information belongs to the client and is available to the investment bankers under strict terms of confidentiality.

At the insistence of the United States, some war crimes were defined in even more strict terms than in the Geneva Conventions.