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- noun Plural form of
stringency .
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Examples
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"At a time when we are facing stringencies of our own, that's a concern for me."
Hillary Clinton 'worried' by UK defence cuts Nicholas Watt 2010
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"At a time when we are facing stringencies of our own, that's a concern for me."
MoD pays extra £2.7bn for unwanted Typhoons Richard Norton-Taylor 2010
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These are services which civilise our society, yet we're saying to these people, 'It's alright for the bankers, we will give them billions of tax-payers money so their banks won't fail, but we don't mind hospitals failing, we don't mind families breaking apart under the stresses and strains of these economic stringencies.
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Although Cohen attributes the tenacity of the distancing stringencies to folk piety, he does not describe the influence of men in the process of getting women to be pious in this manner.
Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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The Appendix deals with the elimination of niddah observance in favor of ziva stringencies, retroactive impurity, internal examinations, varieties of blood, virginal blood, blood of desire and blood of purification.
Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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Unfortunately, the poskim (decisors) are willing to exploit this natural desire and societal pressure by subjecting them to unnecessary techniques in order to maintain halakhic stringencies for the men involved.
Reproductive Technology, New (NRT). leBeit Yoreh 2009
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In such a case the stringencies of a male birth, i.e. thirty-three days of blood of purification, and the stringencies of a female birth, fourteen days of impurity, are imposed upon the woman.
Female Purity (Niddah). leBeit Yoreh 2009
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The fact that she overlooks rabbinic innovations to a large extent defeats her argument, as she is only relating to tendencies within rabbinic circles as opposed to the direction of change from Bible to Talmud which she describes as one of stringencies to leniencies.
Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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Interestingly, the stringencies had some element of transfer to the spouse (perhaps from being under the same roof).
Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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He claims that the influence of Baraita de-Niddah and its reiteration in Yiddish piety books (n. 23) is the source of the stringencies.
Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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