Word: stricting
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Jeeps hugged the sidewalks, hordes of journalists catching the spectacle snapped photographs from behind strict police barricades and fully-armored, camouflaged National Guard troops checked identifications at all subway exits...
...were at war, shouldn't Congress declare war rather than just passing a resolution? Whatever happened to strict constructionism where we follow the letter of the Constitution...
...Ever since the first Americans started playing in Japan, their presence has been controversial. Many bristled at the strict training regimen. Umpires and coaches often were harder on them. Fans expected them to hit home runs every time they came to the plate. And sometimes xenophobia reared its head. "The fans in Osaka are great," says Rhodes. "But away from home, yeah, I hear it all the time: 'We hate you Americans! Go home to America!' It doesn't bother...
...Sharon's cabinet, meanwhile, has put strict limits on a plan by the Israeli military to create a "buffer zone" on the Palestinian side of the Green Line border that separates Israel from the West Bank. Israel's concerns are twofold: Not only is such an action likely to draw harsh international criticism and intensify Palestinian pressure on Arafat to avoid cease-fire agreements; it is also unacceptable to Israeli hawks as a de facto recognition that Israel's borders exclude the West Bank settlements...
...literary arts have always cherished non-commercial pretensions, as if they were a refuge of purity and a counterweight to Mammon. Writers were supposed to belong to a guardian priesthood, whose duty enjoined, at bottom, a strict truth-telling. They were not necessarily required to engage in muckraking or anti-Babbitt, anti-commercial screeds equating business and money-making with Philistinism. But at a deeper level, the writer's vocation, he and she have assumed, had to do with getting to the truth of things, even when making up stories. The goal of product-placement advertising, on the other hand...