1. stringent - Adjective
2. stringent - Adjective Satellite
Binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe; as, stringent rules.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. Ulysses S. Grant
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Repetition acts as an enforcement mechanism: It makes cooperation achievable when it is not achievable in the one-shot game, even when one replaces strategic equilibrium as the criterion for achievability by the more stringent requirement of perfect equilibrium. Robert Aumann
I've never asked, but I'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his shrubbery. Cassandra Clare
Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business. Chuck Jones
[Amazons] They were conquerors, horse tamers, and huntresses who gave birth to children but did not nurse or rear them. They were an extreme, feminist wing of a young human race, whose other extreme wing consisted of the stringent patriarchies. Helen Diner