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  • noun Plural form of stricture.

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Examples

  • It's interesting that you say Judaism seems like the most feminist-friendly religion, when one of the things that bothers me about right-wing evangelicals is that they more often quote strictures from the Old Testament than the words of Jesus, and the point of the New Testament is that it's new, Jesus challenged the old rules and power structures. ... that reads like I'm bashing Judaism.

    Can you love God and feminism? - Feministing 2008

  • London boasts of several periodical publications founded on the DRAMA alone; and though the other magazines occasionally contain short strictures on that subject, those have the greatest circulation which are most exclusively devoted to the stage.

    The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1

  • Mr. Greville gave me several of the first volumes of his manuscript Diary to read, and I was very much amused to find certain strictures upon the ugliness of my hands and feet, and an indifferent opinion of my merit as an actress, among the earliest entries in his Journal.

    Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters 1891

  • Why, you’re absolutely correct, SoS, not about the ogle part – Sarahcuda is married, and her religion has certain strictures regarding what is permissible with regard to impure thoughts, etc.

    Think Progress » Paranoid Beck would embarrass her, Palin focused on googling NYC landmarks right before their interview. 2010

  • Why, you’re absolutely correct, SoS, not about the ogle part – Sarahcuda is married, and her religion has certain strictures regarding what is permissible with regard to impure thoughts, etc.

    Think Progress » Paranoid Beck would embarrass her, Palin focused on googling NYC landmarks right before their interview. 2010

  • Conclusion: US standard is stricter, and courts are keeping to it and introducing new strictures, which is not what happened under the FTDA.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Conclusion: US standard is stricter, and courts are keeping to it and introducing new strictures, which is not what happened under the FTDA.

    IPSC: Trademark Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • You seem to rely on Efraim Karsh (in other words your strictures on me apply at least equally to you, and therefore get you nowhere.)

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Lieberson's strictures, that is to say, like those of most other critics of falsificationism, miss their mark; in no way do they respond to my challenge "to say which of its [falsificationism's] recommendations or injunctions, its methodological rules, are unsuited to the business of sorting out what is true about the world from what is false" (Ibid.).

    The Karl Popper Problem Miller, David 1983

  • Mr. Todd's answer to the strictures was a suit at law against the editors of the _Genius_ for five thousand dollars in damages.

    William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Archibald Henry Grimk�� 1889

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