1.   And with global financial markets exerting strong discipline, nations everywhere are adopting stricter policies to reduce budget deficits.

2.   A Sapient spokeswoman said the Cambridge company already carefully screens dot-com customers but would not say whether executives planned stricter policies.

3.   But advocates for the homeless said that the stricter policies have been applied too broadly and quickly.

4.   But for now, among some welfare recipients, at least, the stricter policies of states, cities and Washington seem to have engendered something oddly resembling optimism.

5.   But the policy that could turn the dollar around -- a stricter monetary policy -- could also suffocate an already slowing economy.

6.   He said he favors a stricter policy that would allow the military to ask recruits about sexual orientation in order to keep homosexuals out of the military.

7.   In response, the two major parties, Labor and the Conservatives, often seem to be competing over which can talk tougher and produce stricter anti-refugee policies.

8.   More and more colleges are adopting stricter policies against underage drinking after recent studies and a rise in alcohol related deaths.

9.   Muellenberg called on the union to set up stricter policies for auditing and for providing leased cars and union credit cards.

10.   One lingering effect of the death penalty involved stricter academic policies.