strict regulation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstrictandregulation
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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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regulation
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌreɡ.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌreɡ.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
an official rule or the act of ...
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(Definition ofstrictandregulationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If the proliferation of paper currency can destabilize the value of gold, itsstrictregulationseems desirable.
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All this is in stark contrast to pharmaceutical products, which have been subject tostrictregulation and monitoring for many years throughout the world.
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Intuitively, one might assume thatstrictregulationof public expenditure on health care would be an effective way to control technology diffusion.
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Both ecologically and culturally, the fertility of this community is under verystrictregulation.
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Thestrictregulationof population involved both carrot and stick.
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Strictregulationto limit the diffusion and utilization of medical technologies is a comparably easy strategy to contain health care costs.
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On the contrary, she emphasizes throughout the extent to which women colluded in their own subordination and collaborated in thestrictregulationof the female body.
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So we agree on the need forstrictregulationand penal sanctions in that area.
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There must also bestrictregulationof the drugs used before that surgical operation with the first criterion being to protect the women.
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However, those who accept that it can be justified understrictregulationand within strict constraints believe that there are huge potential breakthroughs.
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Such powers are of course very dangerous, and therefore have to be the subject of verystrictregulation.
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The day-to-day operation and management of the lottery will be undertaken by the private sector under contract and subject tostrictregulation.
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We cannot allow a situation to arise in which there is notstrictregulationof out-of-print works.
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The fact is, in those countries the pharmaceutical industry has continued to prosper despite 20 years ofstrictregulation.
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To me that is incredible, but so long as the practice continues there will need to be verystrictregulation.
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But where monopoly is the case, regulation, andstrictregulation, is also the order of the day.
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We do not believe that thestrictregulationnow in place is the best way to deal with the situation.
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The regulations would simply extend the purposes for which research using embryonic cells could be carried out; the existingstrictregulationwould not be changed.
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Of course, that will needstrictregulationby a licensing authority.
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I voted for embryo research understrictregulation.
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