strict application

collocation in English

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strict
adjective
uk
/strɪkt/us
/strɪkt/
strongly limiting someone's freedom to behave as they wish, or likely to severely punish someone if they do ...
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application
noun
uk
/ˌæp.lɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌæp.ləˈkeɪ.ʃən/
an official request for something, usually ...
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(Definition ofstrictandapplicationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As noted, this risk exists because thestrictapplicationof the policy distance principle actually generates a threshold effect.
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Such complications demonstrate immediately the relativity inherent in thestrictapplicationof such mathematical algorithms.
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But astrictapplicationof his principles to, for instance, individuals with intellectual disabilities would produce radically different solutions.
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There may be many other examples in medical professions where courtesy has overlaid thestrictapplicationof legality.
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They supported the commitment to thestrictapplicationof the subsidiarity and proportionality principles.
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It seems entirely irrelevant because there is no such thing at the present time as astrictapplicationof a policy of international non-intervention.
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Thestrictapplicationof the proposed ban could mean that this important practice would have to he abandoned.
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Because of thestrictapplicationof cash limits the choice is between not fully funding the services and cutting services for local people.
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Happily, most local authorities and magistrates have held back from astrictapplicationof the law.
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Only after careful assessment might future initiatives be necessary, withstrictapplicationof the subsidiarity principle.
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The consequences of clemency will be more beneficial to his country than carrying out thestrictapplicationof the law.
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As with any technically sophisticated system, safety rests on thestrictapplicationof procedures and principles developed over time.
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I am always prepared to give consideration to any case in which astrictapplicationof the rule appears to work harshly.
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There is at least one other case in which, on astrictapplicationof the rules, there might be a reduction.
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Every effort is being made to enforce thestrictapplicationof the petrol rationing scheme.
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Decisions on ending prosecutions are a matter for the independent prosecuting authorities based on astrictapplicationof evidential and public interest tests.
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Thestrictapplicationof the external finance limits in the nationalised sector has had a very severe disciplining effect in this area.
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They, too, have suffered severely from the present verystrictapplicationof the compensation laws.
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It is always desirable to remove doubts, and there are apparently doubts in regard to thestrictapplicationof the law to treason.
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That is the difficulty and that system of managing their business in a perfectly proper way would collapse on thestrictapplicationof paragraph 3.
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