“Once again, my criticism of U.S. hegemony had to be tempered by a stricture on Japan's own insular nationalism.”

“Not being free to save innocent lives by killing an innocent is not a stricture imposed on us by logic.”

“A clear distinction between the dysphagia of an inflammatory stricture and that of carcinoma is impossible on clinical grounds alone.”

“To a lesser extent, they blamed adverse family factors and the strictness of the school regime.”

“The strictness of the regime was enforced by an escalating series of punishments for infractions of prison regulations.”

“The accuracy and strictness of the results obtained by us from substances of well-known composition could therefore be ascribed only to accident.”

“We got sprung from the strictures of the nuclear family, parish church, small town by our aberrant sexualities.”

“It must be rooted in the most difficult strictures of the scriptures of the major religions and the deepest springs of the human heart.”

“By 1750 writers had begun to question the religious strictures laid down by men such as Samuel Moody.”