Word: stringent
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Pilon believes that as medical science and psychology uncover rational explanations for more cures, it becomes increasingly difficult to name something a miracle. He regrets the trend and, without relaxing his own stringent standards, suggests that the church give more importance to instances where the divine can be said to have been present in a cure, without being its sole explanation. "Ordinary Christians want to see the action of God," he says bluntly. "People are hungry for signs...
...academic career. Then she made some phone calls and learned a bit more about the professor she had come to view as a predator. In June she will tell her story in federal court, but even before a verdict is rendered, the case has prompted Penn to consider more stringent rules on student-teacher sex. Depending on the outcome of her trial, love life on campus may never be the same...
...fuses the two by concentrating in government, fine arts, history or other non-science fields and is also pre-med sheds full light on this counterproductivity in the Core. That student easily satisfies the Science A and B requirements with pre-med subjects but is still locked into the stringent non-science Core requirements--effectively left with few to no electives...
...College's current system of oversight isnot stringent enough to dissuade would-becriminals, many student leaders said this week...
...also unusually stringent with itsfinancial safeguards...