Sentence examples for the stricture from inspiring English sources
noun
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.
If it was, the stricture relaxed in the 1940's.
Yet the stricture was strangely comforting — perhaps as swaddling is to a restless infant.
Goldsmith says the stricture would choke off supply: "50% of nothing is nothing".
Though Witnesses accept virtually all other medical interventions, the stricture against transfusion can affect their care.
Charles seems to have accepted this judgment and the stricture on which it was based, more or less unquestioningly.
Kochan grew fascinated - some say obsessed - with the implications of the second commandment, the stricture on idolatry.
With this procedure the stricture has less of a tendency to redevelop at that site.
But after replacing the stricture against restaurants, lawmakers added in a provision sought by Starbucks, the giant chain of coffee shops.
Although he abolished the stricture against women having driver's licenses, he later explained that the law was redundant, because women's fathers and husbands could make that decision for them.
There is oesophageal dilatation proximal to the stricture.
The causes for the stricture are not yet clearly understood.
