strict

Preposition: of

• asap: To discuss this exciting opportunity in greater detail contact us in the strictest of confidence ASAP.
• confidence: All calls are treated in the strictest of confidence.
• guideline: These products are quality tested in the EU under the strictest of guidelines to ensure quality and safety.

Modifying Another Word

• overly: Overly strict enforcement of school rules can encourage truancy.
• fairly: Back to top The current reduction follows a fairly strict pattern.
• very: Essenes had very strict rules against breaking the sabbath which they observed with fervent rigor.
• quite: However, this isn't a reason for me to become vegan - lacto-ovo is quite strict enough, thanks.
• too: If you are too strict, your children will forage for themselves and supplement the food you offer.
• pretty: He had been brought up in pretty strict confinement in Stirling Castle.

Modifies a noun

• adherence: I see no evidence of an increase in strict adherence to speed limits on the roads.
• confidence: Personal matters are treated in strict confidence by the counselor.
• guideline: The plant in Merthyr Tydfil had to comply with strict new European guidelines in order to be allowed to export the meat.
• criterion: Adrian has strict criteria for just what makes a café ' classic ' .
• deadline: Each piece of coursework has a strict deadline which must be adhered to.
• rule: Under Saudi Arabia's strict Islamic rules, women must cover their heads in public.

Used with adjective complement

• draft: Is convenient for you commissioners drafted strict required by every.
• become: Or are you tempted to become more strict than the Bible in a frenetic attempt to secure what you consider godliness?
• seem: Origen, in his Commentary on Matthew, did not seem as strict as his contemporaries.
• get: However with national and European regulations getting stricter, residents and councils need to work harder.

Preposition: in

• world: The rules in Britain controlling experiments on live animals are among the strictest in the world.