Sentence examples for stringency but from inspiring English sources

Or, even worse, what if the American audience, cretins that we are, were to embrace Mr. Haneke's vision not for its moral stringency but for the thrill of, say, watching Ms. Watts, bound at the ankles and wrists, hop around in her underwear?

Terrorist siblings and spouses also share secrets that wall them off from the rest of their families: the third Abdeslam brother, Mohamed, said after the Paris attacks that he had observed his brothers devoting themselves to prayer and personal stringency but had taken it to be a good thing, a sign of their maturity.

Mariella Frostrup will dispense well-thought out advice with a welcome undertow of moral stringency, but she will not actually come and stay in your house to iron out the difficulties you're having with your mother-in-law's persistent early-morning phone calls.

Others in my family may have been enamored by her stringency but have chosen a looser model, knowing that her self-imposed structure was way too monastic for them.

We did not reanalyse the data using lower stringency but instead aim in future experiments to extend the current study to additional brain regions and samples.

As shown in Figure 4, it was hard to differentiate CD24 heterozygotes from homozygotes at low stringency, but separation gradually improved as the stringency was raised, as would be expected for a probe pair that is functioning correctly.

Detection of small deletions is theoretically possible with reduced stringencies, but is limited by probe coverage of the gene models and deletion size.

For simplicity at this testing stage, we did not perform iterative mapping at different stringencies, but allowed only one mismatch in the mapping process.

One can minimize false positives by increasing stringency filters, but this automatically and correspondingly increases the false-negative rate.

By contrast, BLAST shows very impressive sensitivity at the very high stringency threshold; but does not perform well at the other thresholds (Table 1).

ATHB2 appears as up-regulated gene in our microarray only at lower stringency (p<0.05), but the expression change in seeds of ga1-3 rga-t2 rga1-3 vs. ga1-3 rga-t2 could be confirmed (Additional file 4).