Word: stringent
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There is no doubt these more stringent measures will inconvenience many honest citizens, forcing them to sacrifice for the good of society. But all citizens make these kind of sacrifices every day. And as sacrifices go, gun control makes more sense than most...
According to Silversmith, CLUH opposes stringent gender divisions on the moral grounds that they "imply that physiological differences make students incapable of cohabitating...
NAFTA and its promise of economic benefits will go a long way in enabling the implementation of stricter scrutiny and more stringent environmental laws. The apocalyptic nightmare of a devastated landscape and the continent-wide lowering of environmental standards presented by the more radical environmentalist factions may make for good theater, but that vision is patently false and unnecessarily alarmist...
Romania is hardly the only beneficiary of such German largesse. Thousands of tons of waste have been dumped, legally and illegally, in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. While Bonn has spent more than $1 billion cleaning up industrial toxins bequeathed by the former G.D.R., stringent recycling laws have built up a mountain of ordinary refuse that is difficult and expensive to dispose of at home. As a result, Germany has become the world's leading exporter of trash...
...head the Environmental Protection Agency, coming to the defense of 35 pesticides that potentially cause cancer. Arguing that they actually pose little threat to human health since they are consumed in extremely minute amounts, she seemed poised to ask Congress to relax one of America's oldest and most stringent food-safety laws so that farmers could keep applying the chemicals to crops...