Sentence examples for strictly tied from inspiring English sources

Also, benefits are not as strictly tied to contributions as in private insurance.

This is not a coincidence: under the league's current collective bargaining agreement, player salaries are strictly tied to league revenues.

Demands on executives in China that are strictly tied to business, but nonetheless essential, can be tough as well.

There are intra-regional cultural exchanges on a basis that isn't strictly tied to blocs of civilizations.

The government tried something similar in the 19th century, defining charity as more strictly tied with alms-giving, but the move was overturned in the courts.

But it would have increased by only 48 percent if its growth had been strictly tied to G.D.P. growth in that period.

But he said a broad World Bank energy lending portfolio was likely to include fossil fuels for the immediate future and he rejected calls that the bank's lending decisions be tied strictly to the amount of greenhouse gases a project would produce.

The usage of energy spread to define phone duration provides an alternate scheme for computing phone duration, not tied strictly to automatic recognition-based phone boundary definitions.

The shift helped the company get away from an identity tied strictly to articles and text-based content, to include things like video and just generally any links people wanted to be able to come back to later.

"It used to be thought that the communication of chimpanzees and bonobos was strictly emotional and tied to specific contexts," explains Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Yerkes National Primate Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Imagine presenter wore a silver-striped tie and trainers to the strictly black tie (noeud papillon) event and was promptly blocked by bouncers.