strict sense
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstrictandsense
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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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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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(Definition ofstrictandsensefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofstrict sense
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In astrictsense, there is nothing passive about removing a surgically implanted feeding tube or extubating a patient undergoing mechanical ventilation.
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Regularity means, in astrictsense, accountability by a symbolic rule or a recurrent pattern.
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Cognitive scientists of religion have for the most part given up attempts to define religion - at least if 'definition ' is taken in astrictsense.
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All other predicate symbols are used in astrictsense, implying that their arguments are defined.
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In particular, it has no redistributive effects in astrictsensebecause redistribution is directed at reducing disparities in long-run equilibrium output (per capita).
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However, it has not been found possible to make any serious use of the already extensively developed concepts of information theory in thestrictsense.
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Although some constitutions have provisions that are immune against amendment, even these do not bind in astrictsense, because extraconstitutional action always remains possible.
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And this means that associations have no identity in thestrictsense.
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Obviously, such examples illustrate strong, inescapable necessity in thestrictsenseof the word.
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Of course, with the presence of an indivisibility in the consumption set, concavity of the utility function is not defined in astrictsense.
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But as we saw, in the social sciences, a significant amount of theory has no necessary requirement to be predictive in thisstrictsense.
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This strength of the book does not make it comparative in anystrictsense.
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Stratigraphical principles in thestrictsenseare dealt with fairly briefly.
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Arguably, worship in thestrictsenseof the term is an attitude that one can take only towards agents.
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This was not regulatory competition in astrictsense; rather it was voluntary cooperation.
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Allegiance to rigor dictates the axiomatic form of the analysis where the theory, in thestrictsense, is logically entirely disconnected from its interpretations.
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To this latter category string instruments belong as well as what we should now call percussion instruments in thestrictsense.
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Thus, the shed propagules are no longer seeds in astrictsensebut are instead viviparous seedlings.
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Yet a law in thestrictsenseof the term could not be posited if there was even a single exception.
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