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There should be much more stringent laws against the dropping of rubbish in the streets.
However, stringent public health measures seemed to be effective in breaking the disease transmission chain.
A variety of special schemes with less stringent rules fail to bridge the coverage gap.
Finally, for multinational corporations operating in several jurisdictions it is more efficient to organise their operations according to the most stringent standards.
To begin with, it assumes that more stringent standards lead to higher production costs for firms.
Principled reasons are presented that argue for maintaining a stringent definition of communities of practice, such that more than shared practices or behaviors is required.
Gradually, this stringent assumption is relaxed to allow for a more realistic description of the process.
Needless to say, the employment of child labour did not cease immediately, nor were the restrictions particularly stringent.
We show theoretically the stringent conditions necessary to reduce vote-seat disproportionality in high threshold systems and empirically their high variance (and higher levels) of distortion.
