Sentence examples for strictness of the from inspiring English sources

The gathering fierceness and strictness of the Torah are those of an embattled people and an embattled priesthood.

Many suffered stunning upsets in the elections, thanks both to the new voting system and to the strictness of the Election Commission.

Otherwise, when a downturn comes, adequate remedial action will violate the stability-pact rules.This serves to emphasise the strictness of the pact.

The strictness of the lines, the polished sophistication of mid-calf dresses in dark green and rose, also added to the sexual tension.

Peter Darbee, the head of the state's largest utility, P.G. & E., whose support was crucial to the bill's passage, said he welcomed the strictness of the regulations as a spur to innovation.

The problem is not so much the strictness of the regulations as their lack of consistency: each region has its own rules -- like the insistence of Midwestern states that gasoline include corn-derived ethanol -- fragmenting the nation's production.

And yet, if anything, the strictness of the libel laws seems only to have contributed to a culture that makes use of payments for information and routinely invades privacy.

Of course, misguided citizens who do not appreciate the strictness of the remit under which our public servants toil might erroneously imagine that the gallant council worker who first reported this calumny would have exhausted far less effort by simply picking up the apple core and dropping it in a nearby waste receptacle.

The strictness of the city's segregation was evidenced in 1897 with the establishment of Storyville (known as "the district" to locals), a 38-square-block area, designed to isolate such activities as prostitution and gambling, that was split by Canal Street into black and white areas.

Historically, the strictness of regulation, the generosity of support programs, and the extent of collective bargaining tends to reflect workers' participation with the development of collective labour rights, the labour movement, and the policies and labour market developed by welfare state regimes.

Initial policy levels are summarised by the level of the tax wedge, the net replacement rate of unemployment benefits, and the summary indicator of the strictness of regulation in the EPL domain (all collected by the OECD).