Sentence examples for stricture from inspiring English sources

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stricture

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A rule restricting behaviour or action

  • For them, parity is less an ultimate goal than a transitory and permissive springboard for testing Western resolve and pursuing whatever additional accretions of strategic power the strictures of SALT and American tolerance will allow.

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For Powell, racial "diversity" was a "compelling state interest" which allowed an exception to the Fourteenth Amendment's general stricture against racial discrimination, but only if the method used was "precisely tailored" to that goal.

And here lies a second difference: Mr Libeskind's buildings tend to want to say something, often in a literal way, whereas Ms Hadid's aim for a purer sort of architecture.Ms Hadid belongs to the exuberant school that treats structure as stricture and that wants to encourage people, through the strange geometries of their buildings, to imagine new possibilities of every kind.

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways," reads the unfair stricture from Marx on his tomb.

America has banned banks entirely from speculative trading on their own account, a stricture known as the Volcker rule; other jurisdictions have heavily curtailed such activity.

It also expects to meet another stricture, that it will keep the ratio of net public-sector debt to GDP over the cycle at a "stable and prudent" level, set by Mr Brown at 40%.According to the IFS team, there is room for doubt about whether Mr Brown will meet the golden rule.

Despite von Neumann's stricture, outplaying people at chess has after all been a sub-goal of artificial intelligence for years, and now that the goal is in sight, people are moving its posts once again.

In coastal Zhejiang province a township has begun inviting one resident monthly to "scold" officials.But the stricture to "avoid going through the motions" is an acknowledgment that such campaigns have become ritualised.

Consider, for instance, a stricture laid down by Matteo Arpe, boss since July 2003 of Capitalia, Italy's fourth-largest banking group, embracing three banks: Banca di Roma, Banco di Sicilia and Bipop Carire.

Stenosis (contracture) of the external opening (meatus) is the most common, but congenital stricture of the urethra occasionally occurs at other points.

The production of consonants may also involve secondary articulations that is, articulations additional to the place and manner of articulation defining the primary stricture in the vocal tract.

For example, an "apico alveolar" articulation involves the tip of the tongue but leaves the lips and back of the tongue free to produce some degree of further stricture in the vocal tract.

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