Net nannies as China s Internet censors are often dubbed blocked sensitive articles less frequently.

But today s French legislation is less rigorous than it seems.

Even more problematic reasons include lower risk of litigation, less rigorous ethical reviews, and populations that are willing to participate in almost any study that hints at a cure.

Even Brazil, which is less strict than the USA in drug approvals, has banned the drug for these purposes.

Many highly polluting industries have moved from developed countries to poor countries with less environmental regulation and technology to manage and remediate chemicals.

Is China s political environment loosening up, or is the government cracking down? It s hard to tell.

The closest equivalent to an RFT in the mainstream private sector is a request for proposal (RFP), which, since public money is not involved, typically has a less rigid structure.

Of course, if Chinese policymakers could have predicted what has now happened in the world economy, they might have been less stringent in trying to rein in growth.

It is far less rigorous than the banks feared, given President François Hollande s fiery rhetoric in his electoral campaign last year, in which he anathematized the financial sector as the true enemy.

A more substantial constraint would be to establish a tougher disciplinary regime on fiscally profligate countries as part of a reinforced institutional framework.

The Secretariat undertook to introduce closer monitoring action.

Over the last ten years, thousands of young Ukrainians had been victims of the traffic in persons.

Tougher sanctions can continue to delegitimize the regime, and Turkey might be persuaded to take stronger steps against its neighbor.

What was unusual here was not the cop s heavy handedness.

Laws have become stricter and the actions of the police more forceful.

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.

Sanctions for eurozone countries that seriously infringe EMU rules should take effect more quickly and with less political discretion, and also should be tougher.

Some countries will opt for greater stability, imposing tough capital and liquidity requirements on their banks, while others may favor greater innovation and adopt a lighter regulatory touch.

But no one has the right to complain about the central bank s high interest rate, appreciated currency policy when fiscal policy remains too lax for interest rates to be reduced without risking price stability.

Japan s nuclear regulator did not enforce stricter security rules.

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

It notes, however, the relaxation of registration rules in 2004.

If not, more draconian solutions will be necessary.

The G 20 has called for more forceful action against corruption.

We have made them mandatory, and we are determined to fulfil them as vigorously as we would an international treaty.

Written laws, which replaced oral laws, were less flexible to the changing social nature, old customs of retribution and justice were removed or banned, and the removal of more violent punishments in some areas led to an increase in crime.

In the cases referred to in article 5, paragraph 2, the standards of evidence required for prosecution and conviction shall in no way be less stringent than those which apply in the cases referred to in article 5, paragraph 1.

It s hard to tell. President and Communist Party General Secretary Hu Jintao sometimes seems to be going both ways simultaneously.

Regulatory agencies need enforcement authority so that stricter rules can be implemented

They shall also rigorously oppose and combat such acts (emphasis added).

Stricter control over sensitive nuclear technologies and materials is also needed.

On the contrary, it has become more rigorous and covert.

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

It refuses to ascribe to Iran s secretive state an ideological rigidity that might not exist.

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

In any case, stricter building codes are crucial for structures built in coastal areas.

The Obama on display in the second debate and the third was harder, chillier, sadder, and more somber.

But where the direction of the work is forceful, even the harshest, most repressive measures don't help. We recently discussed the example of France's repressive measures, the results of which between 2000 and 2010 turned out to be nothing.

Our country now abides by the most rigorous and exacting standards in the areas of democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights.

Only toward the end of the 19th C. did strictly enforced quarantines work to stop the spread of diseases out of the region, back to the homes of the pilgrims.

The Republic of Korea has already instituted the strictest measures within its domestic laws to regulate cloning related research.

Courts have also shown enhanced understanding and awareness of the gravity of this offence and of the need for more severe sanctions.

Regulations at the local level tend to be stricter than those at the federal or state level.

Jean Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, has called for stricter budgetary rules.

The EU s stricter labor rules are a well known and often cited example. European labor market rigidities mean that it is difficult in many EU countries to downsize a company.