How To Use Strictly In A Sentence
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She was brought up very strictly.
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Drinking among the upper classes of Persian society, for example, took place at secret parties reminiscent of Greek symposia with their strictly ritualized etiquette and emphasis on poetry and discussion.
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Large and small white egrets, spoonbills, black cranes and the very rare lanner falcons are permanent inhabitants of the near-by, strictly protected bird reserve.
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For men, halfhearted comb-overs, plugs, weaves, and toupees are strictly forbidden and will be cause for harsh disciplinary action.
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Worshipping in unregistered churches was strictly illegal, and those caught often faced severe punishment.
A Church for China
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He dresses in half-mourning always, and never wears any jewelry, but strictly shuns all society, and prefers uncivilized regions.
Erema
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Fujiwara's fictional art-market foundation is pointedly pre-Christian; he wants, he suggests, to reference a period before art was required to be "transcendental" or "moral" and link it to its strictly "commercialised" roots.
Frieze art fair 2010 – review
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After glittering premieres in London and Leeds, this was a much more low-key affair as the cinema only seats 250 people, so invitations were strictly limited.
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One could say that it was not as good as in a strictly Italian resto, but still it was very good.
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This is not to say that any one group of conservatives are strictly to blame.
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Strictly just seems like a long, long time ago.
The Sun
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She studied all the way through Strictly so she could become a life coach.
The Sun
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He distanced himself from the strictly religious aspects of the music.
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Thus, people used housing subdivisions strictly for residential purposes, shopping centers only for commercial uses, and office parks only for work.
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You make progress in money talks by setting aside feelings and focusing strictly on the facts.
The Sun
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Perhaps these pragmatic effects do not strictly affect literal sentence meaning, then.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Private security firms have to work strictly within the law.
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Parking is strictly prohibited between these gates.
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Many theologians hold that these attributes are metaphorical rather than real, since comparison of God to human beings is strictly forbidden due to fears of associationism.
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But ascetics, nuns, and unordained members of religious associations of men were not originally in the ranks of the clergy, and, strictly speaking, are not so even to-day, though, on account of their closer and more special dependence on ecclesiastical authority, they have long been included under the title clergy in its wider sense (see RELIGIOUS).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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The government maintained its strictly neutral policy.
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The mayor, Dr. Arnold, was completely "subjugated," and, after consulting with him, I authorized him to assemble his City Council to take charge generally of the interests of the people; but warned all who remained that they must be strictly subordinate to the military law, and to the interests of the General Government.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
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It is often criticized for its aggressive behaviour towards visitors, and male dogs can get out of hand if not strictly controlled.
Superdog! Action plans that work for a happy and well-behaved pet
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Due to weather hindrances, cruises to Alaska are strictly restricted during the summer months from early May to Mid Sept.
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It is an absolute impossibility for one kind of electricity to be generated without an equal quantity of the opposite kind being produced, although it is not strictly correct to use the term generated or produced in relation to electricity, as electricity cannot really be produced by any process whatever.
Aether and Gravitation
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It is nice to get a bit of the "other side" of the story ... my version of World History taught in freshman year of High School, al; though not strictly anti-Catholic, nevertheless really downplayed the accomplishments of the Church.
Weird Things
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Article 20 Agricultural development organs at all levels should cooperate closely with the loan-providing bank, examine strictly the scope, term, and rate of discount interest.
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Frank would not counter-order the drink, for he loved it; he persuaded himself that he should be strictly moderate, while he was secretly determined to keep within his reach the means of excess.
Frank Oldfield Lost and Found
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The King's religious policies, strictly applied by Archbishop Laud, gave offence to the Puritan merchants and artisans.
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The Democrats treated that as a strictly intraparty issue. oboe Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Trent Lott Revisited
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It’s not completely true that mtDNA is derived strictly from the ovum.
Zorse – The Zebra Horse Hybrid
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That's not strictly true, I'm afraid.
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Strictly speaking, a grassplot should be all grass, grass and a little white clover.
Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden
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Another large class of birds that make fine pets although they are not strictly in the class of birds bred by the fancier are the ornamental land and water fowl.
Outdoor Sports and Games
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Helpings are always liberal and strictly in heaps.
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Therefore, the boat was equipped with fifteen watertight compartments, strictly divided up lengthways and breadthways, so she could stay afloat whatever happened.
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Strictly speaking, the term elementary as applied to most of the particles in the nucleus is inaccurate, for scientists now believe that all the particles except electrons are made of still more elementary particles called quarks.
Elementary particles
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In my opinion, it was not intended that the provincial court judge strictly apply the rules of evidence.
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Here are some things to keep in mind when the guy you want to catch under the mistletoe is more into keeping it strictly platonic.
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This is strictly for those who love a heavy riff, vocal histrionics and want to practice air guitar.
The Sun
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Offers are subject to availability which may be strictly limited.
Times, Sunday Times
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China's Foreign Ministry denounced those remarks as unwarranted American meddling and an attempt to "internationalize" a strictly regional problem.
Reining in China's Ambitions
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In execution phase, modifications and site instructions should be effectively controlled, budgetary estimate should be strictly reviewe...
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In one grand twist Ferguson has relied on a Liverpudlian or Evertonian, strictly to place Anfield's joint record of 18 titles in jeopardy.
Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United ready to pull clear of Liverpool
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During the long session with the senior students the juniors were directed to stick to a typical dress code while attending classes andwere directed to apply mustard oil, wear bathroom sleepers and strictly adhere to a dress code while attending classes.
Senior girl students ragged freshers in Institute of technology in Kashmir
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Because the dissociation is a two-body process, momentum conservation guarantees that the directions of the two atoms after dissociation are strictly correlated, so that when the two analyzer/detector assemblies are optimally placed the entrance of one
Bell's Theorem
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Q These are strictly coming in on the comment line, no calls fielded personally by the President?
Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart
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Severing political discussion from decision and action, however, focuses the locus of Habermasian politics strictly on discussion and what he calls a discourse theory of democracy.
LeverWealth
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Authors adhere strictly to a formula provided by the publishers.
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But Statham's delivery is strictly grim and stoic, utterly without humour.
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The export of ivory is now strictly controlled.
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The passacaglia, strictly speaking, pits variations over a ground bass, although most composers from Brahms on, shift the bass material around to all the voices, which Lees does as well.
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Had the assumption been strictly compatible, the results would have been identical.
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Strictly speaking, it means commonplace, undistinguished, but has come to mean pertaining to the people.
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He said: ‘Strictly, to knock on doors and demand with menaces is blackmail.’
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Besides these three sources measurably unprofessional and outside of music, or amateur, as we say now, there was the work of the professional musicians strictly so-called, who, from about 1100 in the old French school, commenced the development of what is now known as polyphony, which culminated in the hands of the Netherlanders, about 1580, Palestrina himself being one of the latest products of this school.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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Any talk of the divorce is strictly taboo.
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As for its strictly supernatural origins, there is no clear consensus on that either.
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Mauritanian society is strictly divided into a rigid caste system that flies in the face of the country's supposed march towards political liberalisation.
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The updates on meeting schedules posted to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors account, with its strictly business mien, is tragically unendearing by comparison.
Is Social Media Helping or Hurting California Politics?
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Lawlor's equine subjects are informed by the mythical rather than the figurative or strictly anatomical study.
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They "rustled" and "cached" and "packed" things without even stopping to think, and _r's_ were unmistakably creeping into Priscilla's strictly Bostonian speech.
Virginia of Elk Creek Valley
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This is true even though some recent observations found that the mesocyclone gust front structures are not strictly low-level phenomena, but instead, extend through a considerable depth of the storm.
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isolationism is a strictly national policy
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It had been strictly wedded to its pageantries since the time of the great Anne of Austria.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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This is O2's way of making sure that the party is attended strictly by true fans that are willing to make the effort and text in.
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From the beginning Nizan was quite clearly convinced of the necessity to adopt a strictly orthodox party line.
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(For those that are Christians among them, as namely the Russians, Grecians, and Alanians, who keep their own law very strictly, wil in no case drinke thereof, yea, they accompt themselues no Christians after they haue once drunke of it, and their priests reconcile them vnto the Church as if they had renounced the Christian faith.)
The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
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The word that lurks in the criticism of Webster et al is 'bibliolatry', but strictly speaking that is not something which orthodox believers have been guilty of.
Exiled Preacher
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He felt that there was no point putting forward an unpopular policy when it wasn't strictly necessary.
Times, Sunday Times
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As far as we know, only Cornuet et al. and Nielsen et al. strictly applied this rule and considered a testing data set.
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Before the onset of an enlarged backroom staff, it was a strictly hierarchical system.
Times, Sunday Times
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Athletic scholarships, then, are strictly payment for sport; but the athlete has no power to negotiate his wage.
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He distanced himself from the strictly religious aspects of the music.
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We have a sad history of enforced treatment of people who've committed crimes but now treatments like electrotherapy, electric shock treatment, and psychosurgery are very strictly regulated.
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Set sticking ceramic tile is technical very strong job, cannot be engaged in cursorily , must undertake strictly according to operating sequence.
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Consider the ceremony of the weighing of the emperor, with all those flamboyantly robed courtiers arranged in strictly hierarchical order around the man-sized scales.
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Traffic should be strictly regulated.
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How much it exceeds what was strictly necessary for its purpose.
Times, Sunday Times
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Learning was by rote and strictly formal.
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And while banca at first referred strictly to the old money-changing workbench, it soon came to refer to something else: the place where money or valuables were “mounded,” “piled,” “raised up,” or simply “banked.”
The English Is Coming!
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These have also been coded as zero to denote missing data, though strictly speaking their failure to reply is more indicative of the question not being applicable to them.
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Under the new regulations spending on office equipment will be strictly controlled.
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In contrast, the dress code was strictly 1930s gangster chic, with the men in pinstripes and fedoras while the women sported shawls and feathered caps.
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In contrast with most of the other artistic centres of Italy there was no court, and the opportunities for independent action by the elected head of state, the doge, were strictly limited.
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Strictly on the facts of the case, they are correct: The American archipelago is just a series of flyspecks compared to its Soviet predecessor.
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To date, printed scores have been strictly protected; photocopying them is illegal.
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On Hardball and its like, egos run rampant, insider jargon predominates, and agreeability, if any can be detected, is strictly limited to commercial breaks.
J-School for Jerks
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The Strictly pros are branching out as they get fit following time away from twirling around the dancefloor.
The Sun
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Its fashion is strictly edited, offbeat and gorgeous in a refined, luxurious and expensive way.
Times, Sunday Times
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If such a result can be arrived at by the logical and philosophical conception of a gravitative Aether, then the three Rules of Philosophy are fully satisfied, and the assumption of a gravitative Aether is warranted on a strictly philosophical basis.
Aether and Gravitation
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This precedent, if strictly honored in 1984, would throw the legal system into chaos.
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The ban on hunting is not strictly enforced .
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There is no well organized system for training apprentices in photoengraving, stereotyping, and electrotyping, or in any of the lithographic trades, except that of poster artist, in which an efficient and strictly regulated system of apprenticeship is maintained.
Wage Earning and Education
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Mondrian's style of painting involved the use of strictly horizontal or vertical black lines to create a grid of rectangles, some of which were filled in with black or white, or vivid red, blue or yellow.
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This is strictly prohibited in accordance with international civil aviation law.
Times, Sunday Times
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The policy calls for all police to strictly enforce the laws and arrest all drug dealers.
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He's supposed to use it strictly for work purposes.
The Sun
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From the beginning Nizan was quite clearly convinced of the necessity to adopt a strictly orthodox party line.
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The findings are strictly confidential.
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Kenyan homes are traditionally conservative and strictly patriarchal.
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His memo says that all are strictly advised to adhere to the new directive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gothic romance: "Now the co-presence of something regular, something to which the mind has been accustomed in various moods and in a less excited state, cannot but have great efficacy in tempering and restraining the passion by an intertexture of ordinary feeling, and of feeling not strictly and necessarily connected with the passion" (609).
Gothic Visions, Romantic Acoustics
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And he's the guardian and protector of our barbecue, to make sure that everything is strictly kosher.
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What I've been sleeping in for the past two years could be called a teddy, but only if it's understood that the word is not synonymous with a slinky negligee, but strictly a nod to women's nightwear worn during the first Roosevelt administration.
Meredith C. Carroll: The Whooping Cough of Aspen Fashion Week
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All the other deities are subordinates in a strictly organized hierarchy.
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But the property rights system described here is not, strictly speaking, a commons.
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The findings are strictly confidential and we do not know if these athletes were allowed to compete.
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His position has been carefully isolated as his various Lieutenants have, at last, been subjected to searching cross-examination instead of the toothless gumming meted out by the MSM over the years, something which has demonstrated the high standards of advocacy that are produced by our adversarial system of litigation, though, strictly speaking, an inquest is inquisitorial in nature.
Archive 2008-02-10
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The rules were strictly enforced.
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Strictly for people looking to ward off insomnia.
The Sun
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Further, with a chunk of the floating population in the city being rural people, it is just impossible to expect them to follow road rules strictly.
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Moreover, with strictly asexual reproduction, mutations will inevitably accumulate.
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The orang-outang is the most anthropomorphous of the ape tribe, all of which are strictly frugivorous.
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Despite their reputation for drought tolerance C. mixta varieties (or cushaw squash) were believed to be strictly hot desert or humid-tropical varieties, unable to mature in our cool climate.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
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We have seen how necessary it is that one mind, disembarrassed of all extraneous influences, shall create one coherent plan which shall ever after be strictly followed.
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Smoking is banned and car numbers strictly controlled.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Schema framework approach creates a decentralized framework of strictly versioned schemas.
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At this time, football was a strictly amateur sport, even though many of the people involved in its administration, such as Alcock, were also involved in cricket which had been played by professionals for about 200 years.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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The script metes out information on a strictly need-to-know basis, and yet by the end we still haven't been filled in completely.
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The science of the philologer, on the other hand, is strictly historical.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
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It was a period when French cinema was strictly circumscribed by the German occupiers and consisted largely of boulevard comedies.
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Perhaps this is strictly my own usage, but I think of careering as “moving swiftly and effectively”, and careening as “moving fast and uncontrolledly”.
The meaning of “careening” « Motivated Grammar
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Elsewhere, we go behind the scenes at Strictly for an exclusive peek into what the stars get up to backstage on o the day of the show.
The Sun
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Although pruning isn't strictly necessary for deciduous berberis and cotoneaster, they can be thinned out by one third in February to keep then within bounds.
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Our teacher marks strictly.
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But more strictly and accurately, rubricians limit the pontificals to those ornaments which a prelate wears in celebrating pontifically.
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For example, Hallowell found the bear cult was linked strictly to hunting success among the northern Boreal foraging societies.
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Considering he has only three weeks of training and one cha-cha-cha under his sequinned belt, it would be easy to make fun of Robbie's maiden excursion on Strictly, so that is exactly what we will do.
Bad boy Robbie Savage finds life tough outside his comfort zone | Barry Glendenning
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Laws against racial prejudice must be strictly enforced.
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Elsewhere, we go behind the scenes at Strictly for an exclusive peek into what the stars get up to backstage on o the day of the show.
The Sun
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My staff are all highly trained in the Swedish technique and are strictly forbidden to cohabit with the customers.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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In his strictly secular pieces Calderon has succeeded rather by virtue of his lyrism, which is undoubtedly of transcedent quality, than because of any considerable dramatic ingenuity of his own.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Where there is such an approved standard it is, strictly speaking not mandatory for the manufacturer to comply with it.
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I was determined not to stay in hospital for any longer than was strictly necessary.
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The second is control of workability of fresh concrete, if concrete isolation secretion of water, strictly control the vibration time, vibration rehabilitation must be timely.
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No longer are our children required to learn to think, but only to memorize, with the material to be memorized strictly controlled by teachers, school boards, and religious groups.
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Mauritanian society is strictly divided into a rigid caste system that flies in the face of the country's supposed march towards political liberalisation.
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shouldered arches," as they are commonly called, though each merely consists of a flat lintel resting on corbels, which is not strictly an arch at all.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less
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Formal rituals of courting, chaperonage, and arranged marriages strictly governed relations between the sexes.
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If the formula of a compound was important to the student then the name should be a systematic one constructed strictly according to the IUPAC rules on substitutive nomenclature.
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This is strictly business - a two-hour meeting and a 90-minute working lunch.
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Smoking is strictly prohibited inside the factory.
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She wasn't a conceited girl; she was used to admiring glances and had fended off the tentative advances of several of the young housemen, but the professor's glances were strictly impersonal and he had shown no wish to add warmth to their relationship.
A Kiss For Julie
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The proposed change in the law would make abortion illegal except for strictly defined medical reasons.
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The good doctor is in it strictly for the old cumshaw.
Tek Lab
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As I've stated before, Strictly pro-celeb relationships are always complicated.
The Guardian World News
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It is these people as a whole who are comprehended under the term Ruthenian, although that term applies strictly to those speaking Russian and using the Russian alphabet.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Strictly speaking, in what ontological category of things are causes and other conditions, the things which comprise causal circumstances?
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It has remained strictly business, never personal.
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Religious instruction, such as Catholic catechism, is strictly voluntary.
France: A Pro-Church Law Helps a Mosque, while many Muslim students attend Catholic schools
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Rents were again strictly controlled, and empty houses were requisitioned.
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Alcohol is strictly forbidden on school premises.
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The media is strictly controlled, and foreign publications are routinely censored or banned.
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Any comparison that is not strictly factual runs the risk of being interpreted as subjective.
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Mises' views on gold are based strictly on supply/demand considerations.
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Most neo-realist films, regardless of their stylistic or thematic content, usually viewed their characters from a strictly social perspective.
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The betrothal was arranged by the parents as a strictly business contract.
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Indeed, engineers nowadays design and construct bridges so that oscillations remain strictly limited.
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Priests and monks had to follow a strictly regimented set of activities every day.
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Strictly speaking, Great Britain consists of Scotland, Wales and England, and the United Kingdom consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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These coaches are strictly non-smoking and no alcohol is allowed on board.
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These points are, of course, strictly obiter, since these conspiracies would in any case have been protected by State immunity, since they did not constitute international crimes against humanity.
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The most noticeable difference is that the helmets are lower in the back than those intended strictly for cyclists.
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This usage ‘problem’ applies also to vaccines for childhood illnesses, where the total lifetime demand is strictly limited to a fixed number of doses per child.
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But then, 'not strictly rainproof ' is another of this year's themes, by the looks of it.
Times, Sunday Times
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The value of shared facilities or labour must be apportioned strictly in proportion to relative benefits received.
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At the same establishment the kitchen staff would get the front of house staff to sneak them cappucini and beers from the bar, which was strictly forbidden by the 'pubco' overlords. blaircooper 5 September 2011 11:36AM
The Guardian World News
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Staff should adhere strictly to the safety guidelines.
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It would be very strange for any country of South Africa's uranium capacity -- and we've done enrichment before -- not to beneficiate its uranium deposits," South African Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin said in an interview, though he stressed the country would strictly comply with the rules of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the world's nuclear watchdog.
Africa Has Nuclear Hopes
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he taught his children to keep strictly to the straight and narrow
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A good government had to guide its people, sometimes gently, sometimes strictly, just as parents did. It could allow certain freedoms, but in a style that suited the country. Amy Tan
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A revenue tariff is impose strictly to raise money for the govement.
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Perhaps this is strictly my own usage, but I think of careering as “moving swiftly and effectively”, and careening as “moving fast and uncontrolledly”.
The meaning of “careening” « Motivated Grammar
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Strictly speaking Hankow and Nanking lie just south of the Great Plain.
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If one character, one pause, of the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work.
Fred Brooks quote: The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff.""
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Advertising copy shall be dignified, strictly truthful and representative of the art of music and its responsibility to the community.
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I must stress that everything I've told you is strictly confidential.
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If the definition of "athleticism" is strictly about speedy movement then I would say you are right – the moon is athletic, the term is vacuous, and the argument is dumb.
Bunny and a Book
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There remains yet to be considered the distribution of words into their proper classes, or that part of lexicography which is strictly critical.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
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It is strictly taboo for anyone to eat the meat from an animal that is his or her totem.
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A report on the current situation says that no infected animals or people have been found in Bulgaria, and imports from neighbouring countries are strictly controlled.
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Uphold your vows strictly, be they marriage, monasticism, nonaddiction, tithing, loyalty to a lineage, vegetarianism or nonsmoking.
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This appearance was strictly part of a farewell tour.
Times, Sunday Times
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It would not be safe to assume that the synapsid temporal fenestra is strictly homologous to the lower temporal fenestra of diapsids.
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Im 100% for the use of marijuana (or heroin for that matter) for strictly medical purposes, the benefits of both are well documented but until people can learn to act responsibly and use the drugs we already have responsibly and not turn up for work boozed or stoned (a stoned man driving a forklift is a truely terrifying thing), then I think shings should stay as they are.
TPN :: GDay World
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Swimming is strictly prohibited in the lake as it holds mugger or marsh crocodiles.
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Liberalism today is, strictly speaking, pretty pacifistic.
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Strictly speaking, a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.
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And some of the Strictly dancers will perform a choreographed number.
The Sun
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Incidentally, this means that we can use mitochondria to trace our ancestry, strictly down the female line.
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And this relegation of rationality to a strictly instrumental role is, as we discover in Book IV, constitutive of injustice as Plato understands it.
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The following is the report of a case by Drewry, of double (or, more strictly speaking, quadruple) athetosis, associated with epilepsy and insanity: ` ` The patient was a negro woman, twenty-six years old when she was admitted into this, the Central State (Va.)
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Envy was a civilised emotion, attendant upon some degree of security and the possession of things strictly unnecessary to survival.
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Your call is strictly confidential.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, this initial, albeit restricted, study has demonstrated the usefulness of vitrinite reflectance data in other than strictly maturation-related applications.
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`Not frumpish, not gushing and no more churchy than is strictly necessary.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Barracks could now be provided, and exeats were strictly controlled.
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It was strictly a cash on delivery proposition.
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However, the relations corresponding to such predicates are strictly weaker than PP and PE and no biconditional is provable in M that would yield a corresponding definiens of
Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3
