stringency

IPA: strˈɪndʒʌnsi

Examples of "stringency" in Sentences

We talk now about the financial stringency which is on us.
About this time Mr. Ward's views of religious duty deepened in stringency and in gloom.
Xbox LIVE announced heightened "stringency" and "enforcement" to enforce the new policy.
But this stringency, which is called positivism when the conditions of welfare are understood, becomes fanaticism when they are misrepresented.
These filters can have various degrees of stringency, meaning they can be set loose enough to capture events that are similar to, but don't quite match the predictions.
The committee said that whoever formed the next government should not let any "stringency" cuts affect the strategic defence review (SDR) which all the main parties are committed to.
There’s a lot of web content, be it blogs or Twitter or Facebook updates, emanating directly from wine sellers and marketers that might fall under this increased stringency from the FTC.
Again I stress that the fundamental cause of the present credit stringency is the rapid expansion of the Canadian economy, and that the only sound way to relieve this pressure and to maintain a sustained rate of growth in keeping with our expanding population and our rich resources is to increase our total supply of capital.