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Simple sentences
My boss is very strict.
My dad is very strict.
Tom's mother is very strict.
Tom's mom is very strict.
Tom's mum is very strict.
Tom is very strict teacher and children do not like him.
Tom was a very strict teacher.
Tom used to be a very strict teacher.
Our French teacher wasn't very strict.
My parents were very strict.
I'd better get going. My father is really strict.
There is a very strict rule forbidding smoking in bed.
The manager of the baseball team is very strict. He is good at keeping the players in hand.
The teacher is strict with his students.
Alice was frightened of her strict mother.
He was strict with his children.
My mother is strict with manners.
I got it through my head that my parent's strict rules were for my own benefit.
I always tried to be strict with them and not to smile.
He is advised to go on a strict diet.
Both of my parents are not strict with me.
I have amongst my relatives, a single one who sincerely lives righteously, has strict principles and pursues an ideal, but all my other relatives speak ill and make fun of him.
Don't be too strict. They're just kids.
When the teacher is very strict, the students must mind their P's and Q's.
The doctor ordered her to go on a strict diet.
You may as well know that I am a strict instructor.
A number of countries have strict laws against drugs.
He is less strict than our teacher.
They accused the teacher of being too strict with the children.
She was very strict with her children.
My father is very strict with me.
She advised him to go on a strict diet.
Movie subtitles
If you are in violation of this law then according to the strict rules of this temple you will be punished resolutely.
Whatever the situation, strict triage applies.
Tonight I will be very strict.
Didn't I warn you to keep a strict watch?
The professor gave strict orders not to disturb him.
The master gave strict instructions.
Look, they're very strict in this office and I.
I had it in strict confidence from John Wilkes today.
It's hard to be strict with a man who loses money so pleasantly.
He is as strict with his daughter.
Schultz gave strict orders not to molest anyone in this court.
This thing must be kept in strict confidence between the three of us.
We try not to be too strict with them.
You know, strict-like.
Don't be so strict.
In one thing he is very strict. He wants his women young and picked. As for men, he won't have any tramps here.
Oh, Martin. Didn't I warn you to keep a strict watch?
You're always so strict.
But this is strict orders. - Well, come back in the morning.
Mrs. Levine is very strict.
Nor will he. I had it in strict confidence from John Wilkes today Ashley's going to marry Melanie.
Well, we're not so very strict with Tina.
This thing must be kept in strict confidence between the three of us. Me, Mr. Matuschek, and you.
My, they're strict at this track.
Discipline in the air is strict because that's the only way an outfit like this can operate.
From now on, you're on a strict diet.
That can all be arranged for you in strict confidence.
The boss is really strict.
There - the strict laws of family.
I had it in strict confidence from John Wilkes today. Ashley's going to marry Melanie.
She's a society woman, and society has strict rules.
The jury will pay strict attention to the evidence.
Be strict with these tenants.
Under strict instructions not to move until you say so.
News and current affairs
President Nicolas Sarkozy should be applauded for supporting a new initiative promoting strict transparency standards for petroleum, gas, and mining companies listed on European stock exchanges.
At the same time, he imposed increasingly strict central control on his ethnically and linguistically diverse country.
Conditions for gun ownership in Australia are now very strict, and the registration and approval process can take a year or more.
Members of the religious police remain adamant that the country's Christian guests must continue to live according to strict Wahhabi rules of behavior.
It makes sense to think that when state authorities enforce strict codes of behavior, people tend to rebel and move away from officially sanctioned religious institutions.
The authorities recognize the need for strict fiscal discipline and financial regulation.
It also raises doubts about whether the United States will maintain its strict policy of isolating Hamas.
In fact, they alone are accountable in the strict sense.
The EU's member countries share strict rules on fiscal policy, a common currency (except, for the moment, the UK, Sweden, and Denmark), a common trade policy, a common antitrust policy, and common market polices, just to name a few.
A law promoting small enterprises (so long as they remain small!) only increases the bias against large scale operations embedded in Argentina's high tax rates and strict labor market regulations.
The second priority should be defining a strict emerging-market standard for regulating foreign banks after they are allowed in.
But they should offer this only on two strict preconditions: that the military option be taken off the table, and that all parties involved - including the US - enter into direct negotiations with Iran.
Since May, the EU commission on trade policy has been preparing strict new rules to manage Russia's exports to the Union.
No prospect of that in these days of strict accounting.
While not all of these programs were implemented in strict compliance with IMF conditionality, they played a key role in promoting significant improvements in Asian competiveness.
The nuclear cooperation agreement was criticized in the US Congress for not being strict enough on non-proliferation issues, but it looked likely to pass.
Nor has it liberalized labor and product markets, and it maintains strict control over the exchange rate and capital account.
This is why Germany decided in 2009 to enshrine strict fiscal rules in its constitution.
In fact, they alone are accountable in the strict sense. In parliamentary systems, they can and must appear before the elected representatives of the people and explain what happened.
Countries that want to use them must follow strict fiscal rules.
And, since strict regulation, if adopted unilaterally, might simply cause foreign banks to shun a country, emerging markets need to put up a united front.
Strict border controls can never be more than one part of the solution to the EU's migration challenge.
Moreover, under the new law, subnational governments will no longer be able to limit investments on environmental grounds - decisions that were guided by strict technical standards and highly trained experts.
Unnecessarily strict data rules will hurt European companies disproportionately.
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