I figured, given her stringent moral standards, that her great affection for McCain would be dimmed.
As she applies a stringent moral code in her novels, so she does in real life.
The director, Giulio Einaudi, had an imposingly aristocratic manner and a reputation for frivolity, but his staff were handpicked for their stringent moral seriousness.
And yes, the church's exclusive theological claims and stringent moral message don't go over well in a multicultural, sexually liberated society.
Mr. González Iñárritu does not have the stomach for the stringent moral and spiritual vision of authentically (or even experimentally) religious filmmakers like Carl Dreyer, Robert Bresson or the Dardenne brothers.
Davies said Thurlbeck was full of remorse over his unlawful activities and had changed his path and "embraced a stringent moral code by which to live in the future".
The history of criticism is one of oscillation between periods of relative advance, when the imaginative freedom of great writers prompts critics to extend their former conceptions, and periods when stringent moral and formal prescriptions are laid upon literature.
1795 1864), was a Tukulor cleric of the austere Tijānīyah brotherhood who about 1848 moved with his followers to Dinguiraye (now in Guinea), on the borders of the Fouta Djallon region, to prepare to found a new state that would conform to the stringent moral requirements of his order.
Instead of the three categories of reasons discussed above, lesser moral status might involve two kinds of reasons (a stringent moral presumption against interference and a strong reason to aid, but no reason to treat fairly) or only one (a stringent moral presumption against interference, but no reason to aid or treat fairly).
For example, while there is a very stringent moral presumption against killing an unimpaired adult human being, there might be only strong but non-stringent reasons not to kill a dog, and very weak reasons not to kill a fish.
