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The plan strikes a “balance between program stringency and affordability,” said Fariya Ali, air and climate policy manager with PG&E, during the meeting.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

The company said it expected EV adoption to slow following policy changes “including the termination of certain consumer tax incentives for EV purchases and the reduction in the stringency of emissions regulations.”

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025

Minhaj applied a similar stringency to "Patriot Act," but at a cost.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2023

In one example of the stringency of Beijing's approach, around 1,800 people in one city neighbourhood were relocated to Zhangjiakou city in the nearby Hebei province for quarantine, the state-backed Beijing Daily reported.

From Reuters ● May 24, 2022

There is a certain stringency to life, a willful doing without.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

But he added that some air taxis are being lumped into categories such as general aviation where smaller aircraft have different stringencies than larger jetliners.

From Reuters ● Nov. 8, 2022

As an example, Alter cited Dr. Steiner’s assertion that “Antigone draws about herself an ethical solitude, a lucid dryness which seems to prefigure the stringencies of Kant.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2020

It's fair to guess that Kazaras's original staging ideas must have been both more coherent and more convincing before budget stringencies intervened.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2011

This is a small selection of the thousands who have had to endure the absurd stringencies of the UK Border Agency since the points-based visa system was introduced.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2010

In these pictures he is not formally accurate; he could never or seldom set his truth before us in that moderation and proportion which truths acquire in the stringencies of actuality.

From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres