Utiliser "stringency" dans une phrase
stringency exemples de phrases
stringency
1. In a sort of nightmare he struggled with the strange uncanny thing that seemed to hold his hands, turn all muscular strivings to water, and laugh at him all the time; while other travellers, forming up in a line behind, waited with impatience, making suggestions of more or less value and comments of more or less stringency and point
2. He’d obeyed direct orders, but he’d found ways to … mitigate their stringency whenever he thought he could get away with it, even before the godless murderer Mab had started slaughtering Mother Church’s defenders
3. At first it had seemed that he wished to keep even her aloof from any close knowledge of what he was doing; but gradually the terrible stringency of human need—the prospect of a too speedy death—
4. "Then why can't you think it your duty to submit a little to what James wishes?" said Celia, with a sense of stringency in her argument
5. The margins of safety above suggested are materially higher than those hitherto accepted as adequate, and it may be objected that we are imposing requirements of unreasonable and prohibitive stringency
6. The evil that would result from an unexpected and prolonged financial stringency cannot be measured
7. A stringency in money will destroy these by the thousand