31.   Other Administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, had argued for less stringent rules.

32.   Other couples are coping with the same stringent rules.

33.   Republican critics of the bill were attempting to line up votes to substitute the less stringent rules of Ney-Wynn.

34.   Senior Navy officials Thursday expressed concern, but sought to portray the problems as the result the Navy is experiencing as it adapts to more stringent rules against harassment.

35.   Since the controversy over list-swapping erupted, the public broadcasting group instituted stringent rules prohibiting the practice.

36.   So can the Parks Department, which has its own stringent rules and regulations forbidding any barbecuing other than in designated areas in each borough.

37.   Some officials think that stringent rules intended to put welfare recipients to work and reduce the welfare rolls may have also discouraged people from seeking food stamps.

38.   Some investors have turned to Chinese shares listed on exchanges in Hong Kong and New York, where the issuers are subject to more stringent reporting rules.

39.   That percentage seems little or no better than in the past, in weaker economies and with less stringent rules.

40.   The agreement, they said, would also protect them in case the agency set more stringent rules on coal plants in the future.