Having been burned by the crisis, banks have tightened their lending standards, and will now be subject to more stringent capital and liquidity requirements.

Genocide s stringent requirements mean that it is and should be difficult to convict a defendant.

As new technologies are proven, the targets would become more stringent.

The complex things get more fragile, more vulnerable the Goldilocks conditions get more stringent, and it's more difficult to create complexity.

In recent years, environmental requirements (ERs) comprising governmental regulations as well as voluntary private sector or NGO created standards and their associated conformity assessment systems have become more stringent, frequent and complex in certain sectors.

But, as requirements for registering clinical trials have become more stringent, its magnitude has become quantifiable the results of at least half of the clinical trials involving patients and healthy volunteers remain unpublished years after completion.

But, in some cases, the harmonized standard could be more stringent than some countries original standards.

It was expected that IMO would review Annex V with a view to introducing stricter requirements for on board waste management and stringent discharge regulations.

So, you know, we live in a world that's subjected to ever more stringent child safety regulations.

If the regulations were to be written by economists and finance experts, they would be far more stringent.

Sweden, a country of limited cultural diversity, has even more stringent laws on sexual behavior than the US.

It concluded that, whereas the techniques were appropriate for ensuring regulatory compliance, in order for them to meet the more stringent requirements for verification, increased sensitivity would be required as well as an enhanced ability to detect specific isotopes and chemical species.

With mutual recognition, the EU and the US would accept each other s standards or conformity assessment procedures, allowing firms to adhere to the less stringent requirements in each area.

The Law was repealed in 1898, but was soon replaced by the more stringent Public Order and Police Law of 1900.

Yet, even if everyone had participated and continued to stick to Kyoto s ever more stringent commitments, it would have had virtually no environmental effect.

In addition to mandatory food safety requirements, large private retailers have introduced stringent product and process standards that require technical competencies, technical support packages and new management methods, symbolizing a move to high precision agriculture.

Coalition members could also agree to provide stronger incentives to their own producers, through either more stringent caps on emissions or higher taxes on pollution.

Explain and demonstrate the benefits of codes to scientists, including increased public confidence and avoiding the need for more stringent and restrictive laws and regulations

That, in turn, avoids triggering requirements of more bank capital.

Further, to enable precision manufacture and to comply with stringent quality requirements, developing countries and economies in transition require well developed metrology infrastructure, having calibration facilities that can establish measurement and traceability chains to the international SI units.

More importantly, as the world s leader in stringent, real time censorship of electronic communications, China is strongly placed to block any Arab contagion from reaching its shores.

It is also right that the IPCC has acknowledged the need for ever more stringent and transparent quality control procedures to minimize any such risks in future reports.

Some form of mutualization of public debt, carried out under stringent rules.

Therefore, any verification procedures must be sufficiently stringent to ensure full compliance.

Supplying products to mega firms can prove difficult for small producers and providers, including because of stringent requirements for value, quality, specifications and certification, all of which may be hard to meet, particularly in the light of SMEs' resource constraints.

Private standards and technical regulations, set by major importers, supermarket chains, etc., will gain in importance, and will be more stringent than national or regional standards and technical regulations.

For this reason, the World Bank imposed stringent conditions on Chad and Cameroon.

Several regulations in developed countries apply stringent rules on food quality, packaging and labelling.

Sweden, a country of limited cultural diversity, has even more stringent laws on sexual behavior than the US. And France, beneath its veneer of republican equality, is culturally and ethnically diverse.

The current estimated literacy rate for 2001 was 49.51 , though the definition of literacy is more stringent now people who are able to read with understanding and can write a short statement .

Stringent considerations of the risk of collateral damage are applied each time they are used.

Acquisition of nationality of the Niger was not therefore subject to any very stringent conditions.

In fact, the Chinese economy s true condition had long been obscured, but has now been exposed by more stringent regulation of activities such as speculative trading of the renminbi masquerading as trade payments.

Stringent monitoring is carried out, both at the recruitment stage and again at the training stage.

Some have set stringent energy intensity targets and energy conservation plans for different branches of industry.

Stringent and professional quality security policies are implemented throughout the UNCC information systems, networks and databases.

In that connection, UNRWA must implement a more stringent process of screening its employees in order to ensure that they had no connections with terrorist groups and would not abuse its status and privileges.

As a result, they can pull the plug on the program if its stringent criteria are not met.

Concerns have also been expressed about very stringent MRLs recently applied in Japan on various imported horticultural products.

On derivatives, there is now general agreement on how to approach trading, clearing, and transparency, but much more work to do on capital requirements, margin requirements, clearinghouse supervision, and other issues.

New vehicle emission standards meet the most stringent equivalent European standards, and are higher than in the United States.

The presentation of additional staffing requirements in the revised budget should have been more transparent and better organized.

Although Canada supports the current diplomatic efforts to find a solution to this problem, we have to be ready, as Prime Minister Martin recently indicated, to move from words to deeds and impose more stringent measures, if necessary.

The general environment surrounding money management is also more and more complex, calling for tighter and more comprehensive risk management and proactive action as regards the trends and requirements of the industry.

Higher equity capital requirements, for example, require banks to fund themselves with relatively more equity and relatively less debt.