1.   Despite the stringent criteria it was possible to identify a matched control for each case.

2.   Now, for the first time, fixed though often not very stringent criteria for appointment began to play a significant role.

3.   The organizations are demanding that more stringent environmental criteria be built into the reformed regulations.

4.   Poverty may mean very stringent criteria of eligibility for services, ADSS senior vice-president Denise Platt has said.

5.   Azenberg said the management committee was considering more stringent criteria for voter eligibility, although this could cut into the membership fees that support the league.

6.   Bennett said he used more stringent criteria to determine whether independents would actually vote in the primary.

7.   Germany and France, struggling to meet the stringent criteria for European Union monetary union, are no more eager to discuss bigger military budgets.

8.   Since that time, police have begun using less stringent criteria for the alert.

9.   Such drivers are not subject to the same stringent criteria as school bus drivers.