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

German inflation worries have pushed the government into a much harsher stance on debt relief in Europe.

Deteriorating economic conditions at home implied stricter limits on American intervention abroad.

More and more countries are enforcing competition laws more rigorously and also adopting tactics such as the introduction of leniency programmes and dawn raids.

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.

Japan s nuclear regulator did not enforce stricter security rules.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

If this proved successful, it could then move toward publishing more forceful, umpire like decisions.

Above all, China wants to prevent the regime s collapse, which it fears may result from stricter sanctions.

It believes that what America s infirm economy needs is another good bleeding in the form of more rigorous austerity.

First, tighter sanctions make sense only as a diplomatic tool, not as a blunt instrument of coercion.

But the right response is to make the Stability and Growth Pact tougher, not weaker.

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.

Non deliverable forward contracts should be subject to close regulation and supervision in both source and destination countries.

The emergence of new world powers, combined with the diminishing influence of current powers, is not propitious for stricter disciplines.

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

This classification determines the degree of protection to which they are subject, the strictest measures in terms of security applying to the most sensitive category.