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Example sentences for "stringency"

Lexicographically close words:
striking; strikingly; strin; string; stringed; stringent; stringently; stringers; stringes; stringing
  1. The stringency of the laws only increased the bitterness of faction.

  2. Whatever the events or influences that should bring about this reaffiliation, the new bonds of church life would necessarily lack the stringency of the palmy days of Saybrook autocratic rule.

  3. He knew so little of quarantine regulations, however, that his dress was actually in contact with mine whilst he insisted upon the stringency of the orders which he had received.

  4. This postponement of an immediate advance might well, under the stringency of the orders, have been avoided, by pushing on with the then leading division.

  5. As in the enervating luxury of peace, so in the stern stringency of war we have always a use, and a good use too, for the humourist.

  6. Moreover the likeness of mimic to model is closer than in the north, a further proof of the greater stringency of natural selection in these parts.

  7. South of the equator the male-like form and the intermediate trimeni have disappeared owing to the stringency of selection being greater.

  8. Reference was also made to the financial stringency from which the country had been suffering, but which was passing away.

  9. But as I shall now shew, these taboos often continue to be enforced or even increased in stringency after the death of the animals, in other words, after the hunter or fisher has accomplished his object by making his bag or landing his fish.

  10. M125 The taboos observed by hunters and fishers are often continued and even increased in stringency after the game has been killed and the fish caught.

  11. How the stringency or laxity of observance of this code by a performer can possibly affect the emotional and even national value of her art and performance has not been and cannot be explained.

  12. That they are growing anxious there is evident from the stringency of the quarantine regulations they are passing.

  13. The general provisions of this Act as they affect factories include greater stringency in the sanitary requirements, in the limitation of the hours of labour of women and boys, and in the precautions against accidents.

  14. The complaints of the Labour Party against the Government were directed mainly to their failure to amend the electoral laws or to pass humanitarian legislation, and to the stringency of the Peace Preservation Act of 1894.

  15. Prodigality Succeeded by Financial Stringency and Collapse of Boom.

  16. But the stringency is not too great when we depend upon Him to help us, and an impossible ideal is a certain prophet of its own fulfilment some day.

  17. But the difficulty of obedience does not affect the duty of obedience, nor slacken in the smallest degree the stringency of a command.

  18. If it has a fault (which it has not) it is in the direction of too great stringency for unaided human nature.

  19. And not only so, but perpetually with the increasing sweep and stringency of the obligation will be felt an increasing sense of our failure to fulfil it.

  20. When these corporations and brokers desire a stringency in the market, they withdraw from the banks a few millions of dollars and lock it up.

  21. But the whole tendency of the period has been to relax the stringency of French prosody.

  22. This laxity in the case of newspapers may appear all the more extraordinary in view of the stringency which was observed in other matters.

  23. Lord Salisbury when at the Post Office contrasted the stringency of later years with the laxity which prevailed in his early manhood.

  24. About this time Mr. Ward's views of religious duty deepened in stringency and in gloom.

  25. Equal sacredness of rights is its political side, equal stringency of duties its moral side.

  26. Will there not be produced a stringency behind the outflow, and will not all kinds of money begin to appreciate at that point from which the flow begins?

  27. And will not this stringency become greater and greater as long as the outflow continues?

  28. The financial stringency of 1857 led to a careful scrutiny of appropriations for the support of the government.

  29. If they were not at par with coin it was the fault of the government and not of the debtor, or, rather, it was the result of unforseen stringency not contemplated by the contracting parties.

  30. This political revolution was no doubt caused largely by the financial panic of 1873, and by the severe stringency in monetary affairs that followed and continued for several years.

  31. I feared that the enormous deposits would create a serious stringency in the money market, and perhaps cause a panic after the first of April.

  32. Soon after I commenced receiving prophecies of stringency and disaster.

  33. With the 1st of April all stringency disappeared.

  34. The strange feature of this stringency is unlike that of any of the numerous panics in our past history.

  35. The necessary effort of the deposit of large amount involved in refunding operations was to create a stringency in the money market.

  36. The peculiar provisions of the law requiring national banks to maintain reserves to meet the call of the depositors operates to increase the money stringency when it arises rather than to expand the supply of currency and relieve it.

  37. Drew had taken away about seven million dollars of his money and an artificial stringency had been created in Wall Street by this exodus of most of its available cash.

  38. To borrow a dollar from the Patapsco on any note of hand he could offer was out of the question, the money stringency having become still more acute.

  39. Concerning these, the most pregnant testimony, alike to the stringency and the persistence of his measures, may be found in the imbittered expressions of enemies.

  40. To this open and ingenuous bid for fuller advantage by Spanish resort, Spain replied by doubling her custom-house forces and introducing renewed stringency into her commercial orders.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stringency" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acerbity; acidity; acridity; acrimony; asperity; astringency; austerity; bite; bitterness; discipline; edge; grip; hardness; harshness; inclemency; infrequency; keenness; paucity; poignancy; point; rarity; regimentation; rigor; roughness; scantiness; scarcity; severity; sharpness; smallness; sparsity; sting; stringency; teeth; thinness; tightness; toughness; vehemence; violence; virulence