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Some are fighting back with strict limits on weekend work, including one woman who bought a $30 hourglass to limit her Sunday work to 60 minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Those who remain are often under strict instructions from their parents: be home before dusk.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

For Sramek, it was a way around the county’s strict rules on development outside city limits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

It is governed by a strict policy of "complementarity", meaning it can only take on cases a suspect's home country is unwilling or unable to try itself.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Even in the strict silence this human closeness was joy and strength.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

But there is no sign of the government proposing such a change, nor when the stricter rules will take effect.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Norway's capital Oslo has already decided to ban glasses equipped with cameras in schools, while there have been increasing calls for stricter regulation in the European Union and the United Kingdom.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Israeli airlines flying to Dubai are known to follow stricter security protocols than their foreign counterparts on the same route.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Other proposals that would have created stricter requirements around the approval process for new storage sites did not advance through the Legislature this session.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

I had less maneuverability back in the much stricter Charlestown Prison.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Then—and I’m telling you this in strictest confidence—Wiatt’s days are numbered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

California, which has some of the nation’s strictest gun laws, largely prohibits possession of a firearm within 1,000 feet of a K-12 school under the Gun-Free School Zone Act of 1995.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

The designation is the strictest standard in the US legal system.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

"The circumstances that led to the incident should be thoroughly reviewed, those responsible should be identified, and the strictest possible action should be taken."

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

“The men have the strictest orders. But 1 must say, sir, that those orders would be easier to follow had the Yankees shown charity when they were back in Virginia.”

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara