"The quality filter will be pretty stringent.
"I was pretty stringent about it," Bern said recently in a phone interview.
"These are pretty stringent requirements," said Sandy Praeger, the Kansas insurance commissioner, who supervised the drafting of the rules.
These are pretty stringent requirements – if we tested ourselves against this statement every day, the chances are that some days we would all be suffering sub-par mental health.
The company is pretty stringent about what counts as a renewable; unlike some soi-disant renewables suppliers, it won't use unsustainable biomass, and it won't use unseparated waste (on the grounds that burning plastic is not that different from burning fossil fuels, even if it is a waste product and you didn't dig it up just to burn it).
The demands of a specialist chemistry vocabulary are pretty stringent, however, so for chemistry dictation the transcription accuracy varies significantly.
These are pretty stringent criteria, and the method usually doesn't turn up very many stocks with decent liquidity.
Of course, his immigration policy is only a tiny fraction of an inch different than most Republicans', seeing as how the criteria he usually lists for his proposed exemption are pretty stringent: lived here 25 years, not broken any other laws than the immigration violation, grandmother, and a member of a local church.
Sentries of old might have considered the requirement for someone to whisper the word "Methuselah" to get past a checkpoint to be pretty damn stringent, but as soon as "Methuselah" was forgotten or passed on (deliberately or inadvertently), they may as well have abandoned the checkpoint and put up a sign saying: "Come on in".
In fact, they were pretty abnormal.
