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The government, elected after all on a promise not to raise taxes, has, strictly speaking, kept its word.
Because of the many etiological factors involved, multifactorial diseases are not, strictly speaking, the sole result of hereditary transmission.
While not, strictly speaking, a plant, several specimens of squid stinkhorn fungus Pseudocolus schellenbergiae attracted interest.
Why did both card designers tag the architecture in this landscape with encryptions of Irishness that are not, strictly speaking, accurate?
More strictly speaking, the word nebula should be reserved for gas and dust clouds and not for groups of stars.
Here again Alter's version is more literary and, strictly speaking, more accurate.
The question of interest concerns whether, strictly speaking, these arcs form a circle.
Fronds are, strictly speaking, elaborate compound leaves, attached to the stem by a petiole.
The map is not, strictly speaking, a cordiform projection, but rather the artist's creative design.
It was in this state of affairs that the police committed excesses which strictly speaking were impermissible in law.
But the property rights system described here is not, strictly speaking, a commons.
But indeed it is only strictly speaking that something is amiss, only if the allegorical content of each personification must be taken seriously.
In this spirit of forthrightness, I feel I must tell you that, strictly speaking, I'm not supposed to leave the castle without my entourage.
That is why he was not approached to give his opinion, as he, strictly speaking, is not a resident or property owner on Grave Lane.
That being said, this fortunate state of affairs strictly speaking owes nothing to the author of the violence committed against me.
A quibbler might point out that some artists in the exhibition are not, strictly speaking, Pop Artists.
These are not strictly speaking advances but rather reimbursements of expenditure already incurred by Member States.
It is not strictly speaking a rifle with cylinder, but well a revolver rifle.
Choir members will find  this option interesting, even if their choral singing is not strictly speaking Karaoke.
Nevertheless this viability is not, strictly speaking, compliant with the guidelines because it depends on other state aid.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I am the plainest woman in England, bar none.6 Even in youth I was not, strictly speaking, voluptuously lovely.
The colewort, strictly speaking, is a plant distinct from the other varieties of Cabbage.
A rule which, strictly speaking, is not outraged by the digressive exclamations of Camons.
In this way, they were, strictly speaking, rivals of the throstle doubling frame more than the spinning mule.
The work of deduction is the interpretation of these formulas, and therefore, strictly speaking, is not inferential at all.
The frond, though not strictly speaking adnate, as it seems to have no attachments, is usually spread loosely over other Polyzoa.
The Cretan Church is not, strictly speaking, autocephalous, being dependent on the patriarchate of Constantinople.
They are not strictly speaking ends or termini of action at all.
Though the ancient feudal systems were not, strictly speaking, confederacies, yet they partook of the nature of that species of association.
She has neither bow or stern, strictly speaking, for she has a long-bladed rudder on each end and she never turns around.
It should not, strictly speaking, be rendered with a finite verb.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am not, strictly speaking, a spiritualist.
One of the parties, however, when critically examined, did not seem, strictly speaking, to come under the species.
The taboo, strictly speaking, only appears where the peltry is absent.
The phrase pre-established harmony is, strictly speaking, tautologous.
Perhaps, strictly speaking, I should say a reprint, and not an edition.
They become, I believe, heirlooms, strictly speaking, according to the terms of your godmother's will.
But, strictly speaking, this is not a binding of the Will qua Will.
Mr Ralph Nickleby was not, strictly speaking, what you would call a merchant, neither was he a banker, nor an attorney, nor a special pleader, nor a notary.
And, strictly speaking, CONTINENTS should be called INCONTINENTS since their rivers are continually micturating into the sea and their landmasses are circumfluous.
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