stricture
Example Sentences
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But whether they know or not, getting re-elected while staying within the strictures of the bond market is going to be tough.
He has described himself as more writer than reporter, and therefore not bound by the usual journalistic strictures.
What this means for policymakers is obvious: AI, understood as a tool, is subject to the ethical concerns and strictures of all other tools.
It is a reminder of the deep-seated conservatism that still prevails in Saudi Arabia, despite a roll-back of social strictures in recent times.
From Barron's
To Cicero it meant “rules or strictures”; following him, Mr. Appiah writes, St. Augustine observed that it refers not only to worship but to “the observance of duties in human relationships.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
