Word Finder - strictures

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(usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action

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For them, parity is less an ultimate goal than a transitory and permissive springboard for testing Western resolve and pursuing whatever additional accretions of strategic power the strictures of SALT and American tolerance will allow.

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A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology

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I just couldn't take the stricture of that place a single day more.

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A sternly critical remark or review

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Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body

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Strictness

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A stroke; a glance; a touch

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The degree of contact, in consonants

The acid is also the active ingredient of the preparations of Virginian Prune, to which the same strictures apply.

Like thiosinamine it has a specific action on scar tissue and has been used in urethral strictures.

Macleod protested against the grounds on which its strictures were based.

He was an exact and discriminating critic, and inclined to severity in his strictures on the romanticists.

Thus, though incidentally there is much to be learned from Nietzsche, especially from his criticism of the ethics of pessimism, or from the strictures he passes upon the negative morality of extreme asceticism or quietism, his system inevitably provides its own refutation.

Of hand you can see i am always department's ethical strictures.

At the same time, the Maastricht criteria for joining EMU will impose severe strictures on their fiscal policy.

The toffs claimed that they were merely following the strictures of the Bible on Sabbath observance.

David Barlow launched his company just over a year ago to escape the strictures of working for larger, corporate builders.

Late sequelae include strictures, chronic radiation enteritis, malabsorption, or gastrointestinal obstruction.

Most peptic strictures are however less than 1 cm in length.

But within these legal strictures, Snooper snoops for you pretty effectively.

Surgery reduces but does not completely abolish the need for stricture dilatation Recent papers Richter J E. Peptic stricture dilatation Recent papers Richter J E. Peptic strictures of the esophagus.

As a youth he performed the pilgrimage to Mecca, whence he was expelled on account of his severe strictures on the laxity of others, and thence wandered to Bagdad, where he attached himself to the school of the orthodox doctor al Ashari.

Dryden acknowledged, in the preface to his Fables, the justice of Collier's strictures, though he protested against the manner of the onslaught; 1 but Congreve made an angry reply; Vanbrugh and others followed.

Suspicion was not aroused until March 1883, when Mancini, in defending himself against strictures upon his refusal to co-operate with Great Britain in Egypt, practically revealed the existence of the treaty, thereby irritating France and destroying Depretiss secret hope of finding in the triple alliance the advantage of an Austro-German guarantee without the disadvantage of French en.mity.

Andrea, conscious as he was of his own great faculty and mastery, seems nevertheless to have felt that there was something in his old preceptor's strictures; and the later subjects, from the legend of St Christopher, combine with his other excellences more of natural character and vivacity.

He returned to Switzerland in July 1788, cherishing vague schemes of fresh literary activity; but genuine sorrow caused by the death of his friend Deyverdun interfered with steady work, nor was it easy for him to fix on a new subject which should be at once congenial and proportioned to his powers; while the premonitory mutterings of the great thunderstorm of the French Revolution, which reverberated in hollow echoes even through ' An anonymous pamphlet, entitled Observations on the three last volumes of the Roman History, appeared in 1788; Disney's Sermon, with Strictures, in 1790; and Whitaker's Review, in 1791.

That applies wherever we can apply it within the strictures of the law.

We may have to shut ourselves off from the strictures of the society around us.

There is a potential difference between knowing the administrative strictures of a project management method and knowing how actually to manage a project.

Fundamentally these concerns raise questions about our responsibilities in addressing offending and offenders outside the strictures of the criminal justice system.

Of hand you can see i am always department 's ethical strictures.

Surgery reduces but does not completely abolish the need for stricture dilatation Recent papers Richter J E. Peptic strictures of the esophagus.

The second phase continues the principles followed in the first phase, but relaxes some of the strictures and teaches a person to keep the glycemic load of each meal below 50.

The strictures of a critic in the Monthly Review of July 1763 drew from him a pamphlet called Man in Quest of Himself, by Cuthbert Comment (reprinted in Parr's Metaphysical Tracts, 1837), "a defence of the individuality of the human mind or self."

Samuel Clarke, who defended Newton's view of the world against Leibnitz's strictures, is perhaps chiefly interesting to.

Gibbon sat and listened unobserved to their strictures.

Of these the earliest were Watson's Apology (1776), Salisbury's Strictures (1776) and Chelsum's (anonymous) Remarks (1776).

It was in answer to these strictures that Zarlino published his Sopplementi.

In answer to these strictures, Bengel published a Defence of the Greek Text of His New Testament, which he prefixed to his Harmony of the Four Gospels, published in 1736, and which contained a sufficient answer to the complaints, especially of Wetstein, which had been made against him from so many different quarters.

His Projet de paix perpetuelle, which was destined to exercise considerable influence on the development of the various schemes for securing universal peace which culminated in the Holy Alliance, was published in 1713 at Utrecht, where he was acting as secretary to the French plenipotentiary, the Abbe de Polignac, and his Polysynodie contained severe strictures on the government of Louis XIV., with projects for the administration of France by a system of councils for each department of government.