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How to use the word strict in a Sentence? Page #6

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Those who pack their belongings will leave, because we want this issue over with. Ideally by the end of the week. We haven't put a strict deadline on it, but more or less that is what we estimate.

Giorgos Kyritsis

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Temple houses have strict ordinances and covenants that deal specifically with families.

John McElroy

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We've heard 'strict enforcement of discipline' and 'thorough steps to stop recurrence' hundreds of times over the past several decades, but that nothing has changed.

Takeshi Onaga

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

As the EU's external borders are not yet effectively protected, Austria will soon ramp up strict border controls. That means massive border controls on at the Brenner (Pass), and with soldiers.

Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Peace will require strict adherence by both sides to the tenets of international humanitarian law. This includes Israeli ending disproportionate responses to being attacked, even though any attack on Israel is unacceptable.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It was pretty hard to live in Mosul, it's not like the Western countries. You know, it's very strict. There's no smoking.

Mohamad Jamal Khweis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have strict orders from our lawyers (not to comment), soon enough, I'd love to tell the other side of the story. It's ridiculous, why he's expelled. It's probably going to set some sort of precedent. We're trying to do things the gentleman's way, so we're keeping things close-knit. But you guys will get a story.

Jim Montague

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's a very different thing, he was born here. He was born on the land. Ted was not born on the land, and there's a very strict reading that you have to be born on the land.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In some ways, banks have become bad utilities, with utilities, you have strict regulation in what you can do and charge, but in the end investors get a reasonable return. With banks, that last piece hasn't happened.

Fred Cannon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm amused when I hear people who claim to be strict interpreters of the Constitution suddenly reading into it a whole series of provisions that are not there, the Constitution is pretty clear about what is supposed to happen now.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We still have concerns that this military equipment is being used in a civilian context, at the very least, they should be using warrants and with a strict privacy policy that is written.

Mariko Hirose

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I believe the public can see for themselves on TV and (from media) reports the seriousness of the situation, the police (are) under strict guidelines for the use of force.

Hong Kong highest-ranking official

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This is a $43 billion firm, I do not believe we are talking about basic nitrogen-based fertilizers but some very high value products, this should be subject to strict scrutiny.

Michael Wessel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He is a strict Constitutionalist, he has really been raised on this, and it seems to me that he was raised for this time. People think he might be Ronald Reagan, I think (Cruz) is going to be Calvin Coolidge.

Glenn Beck

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The issue today is how do we change that land for shrimp back into mangroves, we've never been strict. The policy has allowed for them to live there, but the ecosystem is deteriorating, so we have to solve this problem, yet we have to give them the right to a livelihood as well.

Somsak Piriyayota

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Ted Cruz loves God, he loves James Madison and he's a strict constitutionalist. You know what Ted Cruz understands, god raises these empires up. It is God who brings them down.

Phil Robertson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Going from an ‘ anything goes ’ way of eating to a very strict diet is like going from only knowing how to ride a bike to trying to drive a stick shift Ferrari on the Autobahn.

Krista Scott-Dixon

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It is absurd that people should have to write an essay to the town to explain why they should be able to exercise their constitutional rights, we already have a very strict set of gun laws in the state, but this is way over the top.

Jim Wallace

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Implementing our strict position about the fight against doping, taken into account the documents we have received from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the ROC has disqualified Irina Maracheva and Anna Lukyanova for two years for breaking anti-doping rules.

The Olympic Committee

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In El Salvador, the recommendation to postpone pregnancy is offensive to women and even more ridiculous in the context of strict abortion laws and high levels of sexual violence against girls and women.

Monica Roa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In strict accordance with the constitution, he cannot nor should not be extradited to any foreign country, why? Because he is Mexican, and Mexico has wise laws and a fair constitution, and there is absolute confidence in the prisons authority.

Juan Pablo Badillo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Supreme Court has clearly stated that with regard to Internet service providers the reasonableness of a potential blocking has to be subject to strict scrutiny.

Deutsche Telekom

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I maintained a healthy diet, limiting my carbs and increasing my protein and kept a strict exercise regimen.

Jane Pearson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The way it is today is that I work hard to strict deadlines but I work with my own flexibilities. If there are no meetings, then I can take my work home. This gives me the opportunity to oversee my young child as well.

Sarika Bhattacharyya

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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