How to Use stringency in a Sentence

stringency

noun

• That’s why our system came to treat questions of ethics with such stringency.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2018
• Over time, the NFL’s stringency about the anthem faded somewhat.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 23 May 2018
• Mayor Frank Jackson has said the Justice Department may seek to relax the stringency of some of the consent decree's requirements.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 13 June 2017
• This stringency, which the narrator shares with her creator, is also one of Davis’s defining features as a translator.
  — Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2021
• It has been the hardest hit in Europe (along with Italy’s), because of the preponderance of tourism and small, vulnerable businesses, plus the stringency of its lockdown.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2020
• People headed to online platforms to purchase goods at about the same rate regardless of the stringency of interventions.
  — Jerry Nickelsburg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2020
• Private citizens, especially wealthy ones, who go to work for the government are often surprised by the stringency of its ethics rules.
  — Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2017
• This pattern was broadly in line with the stringency of virus containment policies in advanced countries where strict measures were put in place in March and slowly relaxed starting in May.
  — CNN, 27 Sep. 2020
• Biden has also ratcheted up the stringency of the target to eliminate carbon entirely, rather than simply striving for a cleaner grid.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 15 Feb. 2021
• Already, many of the same people who criticize stringency in the state and local programs regularly argue that the programs intended to help companies should have come with more strings attached.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2020
• Policy also will play a big role in how quickly electric cars are adopted, including the stringency of tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions limits, Malloy told Abby.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2020
• If codified in law, the delinking would mark the unions’ triumph over groups arguing that using test scores adds objectivity and stringency to evaluations.
  — Leslie Brody, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2019
• This has prompted some state lawmakers and other critics to question the program’s stringency, and whether an oversupply of allowances will be an obstacle to its efficacy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019
• The depth of each country’s recession will depend on the duration of its lockdown, the stringency of social distancing and the strength of consumption, explains Jacob Nell, an economist at Morgan Stanley.
  — The Economist, 28 May 2020
• The additional stringency associated with this highest tier of approval can easily add several years and tens of millions of dollars to a project’s schedule and budget.
  — David W. Brown, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2022
• Warren’s theory of the case is that the U.S. will promote labor rights and environmental stringency by demanding national compliance with high standards before agreeing to trade with them.
  — Daniel W. Drezner, Twin Cities, 1 Aug. 2019
• What the committee releases later this month in full legislative text, however, will be an important indicator of the policy’s stringency, said Ben King, an analyst with Rhodium.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2020
• An analysis that includes data through early June 2021 finds that lockdown stringency is strongly associated with fewer deaths after controlling for a few other factors.
  — WSJ, 29 Dec. 2021
• Her sense of belief was eclectic, encompassing Calvinist stringency and Unitarian sunshine.
  — James Marcus, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024