Sentence examples for thought strict from inspiring English sources

Since fees were set in 2001 the number of guns held by civilians in England and Wales has risen by 14% to 1.8m, the highest number since detailed record-taking started two decades ago.These healthy figures surprise those who thought strict gun laws brought in after a mass shooting in Scotland in 1996 would fatally wound Britain's shooting culture.

In 1772 James Whitchurch wrote in his Essay Upon Education that Locke was "an Author, to whom the Learned must ever acknowledge themselves highly indebted, and whose Name can never be mentioned without a secret Veneration, and Respect; his Assertions being the result of intense Thought, strict Enquiry, a clear and penetrating Judgment".

Governments thought stricter regulation would sharply reduce NOx emissions, but carmakers found ways around the rules and governments failed to clamp down on the practices.

Shelly Elkington, 49, thinks stricter guidelines could have saved her daughter's life.

Voters who backed Hillary Clinton in 2016 were 60 points likelier than Donald Trump voters to think stricter gun laws would lead to fewer shootings, and 50 points likelier to see gun violence as very serious.

She guessed that her colleagues thought her "strict, even mean".

The Joint Chiefs thought that strict military discipline was the best safeguard against an unauthorized nuclear strike.

Of course, Tolstoy also thought that strict adherence to conventional forms would hinder the writer of brilliance, and it goes without saying that great works make use of, or subvert, commonplace devices in bold and inspired ways.

Spinoza thus began the first book of his Ethics by laying down eight definitions and seven axioms whose truth he took to be self-evident and then proceeding in the body of the text to deduce, as he thought with strict logic, 36 propositions that follow in order from them.

A love for soccer as a kid morphed into a more focused athleticism as a pre-teen, although why I thought a strict regimen of daily sit-ups leading up to my first-ever high school soccer tryouts would help me make the varsity team is beyond me.

They thought that strict adherence to ODBP guidelines might cut drug costs, but could create ancillary costs through poor use of physicians' time and burdening other sectors of the system (i.e., emergency room visits).