Word: stringent
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Shenouda aggressively resisted the increasing Islamization of the country: in 1977, for example, he called on Copts to undertake a four-day fast to protest proposed legislation that would make it a capital crime to renounce Islam. The bill threatened Christians who convert to Islam to avoid stringent Coptic divorce laws, then apostatize once proceedings are over. The bill was shelved. He also complained often and bitterly that the government did not do enough to protect Copts from violent persecution by Muslim fanatics. Last year, after a reported series of church burnings, attacks on clergymen and forced conversions, Shenouda canceled...
...University is not ignoring the issue: This fall the Faculty will consider a proposal setting up a committee to advise Dean Rosovsky on such matters. However, Harvard trusts its faculty and is unlikely to take more stringent action unless faced with a flagrant violation of academic ethics. Until and unless this occurs, the University will rely on unwritten rules and the individual consciences of its professors. And the small companies will continue to thrive around Harvard Square...
...Deterioration" examination--required by the federal Clean Air Act of 1978. The Act exempts non-profit health or educational institutions upon the request of state governors. Bok wrote King that MATEP qualified as a non-profit facility and had already been scrutinized by a state environmental investigation much more stringent than the one EPA would conduct. King asked for the exemption in March. It was granted in May. And in June, a U.S. Appeal Court judge rejected a request from MATEP opponents for an injunction on the plant's completion, pending their October appeal of the EPA decision...
Critics charge that this is leading the Philippine economy into a type of state capitalism. But Gerardo Sicat, the former Economic Planning Minister, insists that the money is being doled out to corporations only after they have met stringent conditions, such as getting rid of unprofitable ventures...
...some pollutants would be rolled back to limits in effect in 1977. The rule designed to prevent significant deterioration of current air quality would be relaxed so that industries could expand in areas where pollution is now below the national maximum. And new coal plants would face less stringent sulfur-emission requirements...