stringency

Preposition: of

• requirement: The stringency of the requirements reflect the course's popularity with applicants rather than its ' value ' to employers.
• control: Mr Maclean should not have permitted the MLC advertisements to claim that with the stringency of controls even the remotest perceived risk was avoided.
• condition: The exact level would depend on the number and stringency of the conditions that needed to met and thus audited.

Converse of object

• increase: Other millions must have taken refuge behind the British and American lines, thus increasing the food stringency in our sector.
• determine: It even would be difficult to determine the stringency of a prima facie obligation to keep a promise.
• reduce: The need to hold mathematical reserves to cover GARs should not reduce the stringency of the resilience test to be applied.
• cause: The colony successfully surmounted the financial stringency caused by the withdrawal of the imperial troops in 1905.

Adjective modifier

• financial: Due to financial stringencies, the Diocese felt unable to renew the lease.
• increased: The second is likely to be an increased stringency in requirements for pollen germination to ensure more specificity.
• economic: We live in a wasteful society at a time of economic stringency.
• fiscal: As a result, these institutions can expect no respite from the fiscal stringency they have had to endure for far too long.
• great: Rules governing the circulation of Cabinet memoranda and consultation with the Treasury took on a greater stringency than ever before.
• high: Strong hybridisation signals were observed for all symptomatic samples, when blots were washed at medium to high stringency.

Noun used with modifier

• increase: These washes are affected by three factors, presence of formamide ( higher % increases stringency ), salt conc.