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• s  rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard
  a strict vegetarian
• s  (of rules) stringently enforced
• a  characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
• s  incapable of compromise or flexibility
• s  severe and unremitting in making demands
  strict standards

• His father was a professor of medieval studies and his mother a strict Calvinist.
• Because of its strict policy of posting only those songs authorized by the copyright holders, you won't find Barenaked Ladies or the Austin Powers sound track.
• The strictest creationists, who take the biblical story of creation literally, believe that the earth was created only several thousand years ago, complete with all the animal .

• rigorous
• hard-and-fast
• nonindulgent
• rigid
• stern
• exacting

• indulgent

News & Articles

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• Analysis: Long-standing strict N.J. law on overdose deaths still debated
  The Strict Liability in Drug-Induced Deaths statute essentially treats suppliers as killers if the drugs that they placed on the street wind up causing a death. It is rarely used because the chain of supply leading to the death can be tough to trace.
  June 14, 2013 - The Record
• Senate kills strict GOP border security amendment to immigration bill
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate kills strict GOP border security amendment to immigration bill .        
  June 13, 2013 - Boston Globe
• Senate kills strict GOP border security amendment to immigration bill - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News ...
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate kills strict GOP border security amendment to immigration bill .
  June 13, 2013 - Quincy Herald-Whig

Quotes

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• Virgil Goode in USA Today
  Goode added: "I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of...
• Rudy Giuliani in International Herald Tribune
  It would be OK to repeal it. It would be OK also if a strict constructionist viewed it as precedent,said Giuliani, who has a record of supporting abortion rights.
• Barack Obama in Reuters
  We will never undertake this research lightly,Obama said. "We will develop strict guidelines, which we will rigorously enforce, because we cannot ever tolerate misuse or abuse."