These rules themselves may be over-strict.

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The system the dabbawalas have developed over the years revolves around strong teamwork and strict time-management.

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In Germany the strict and not-too-popular Angela Merkel presides over an enviable economy.

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What makes the story even more interesting is that, although cricket was allowed under the Taleban - the rules over what you could and couldn't do were strict.

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The strict rules help to reassure pilots flying over the UK's densely-populated capital that everything possible is being done to minimise risk.

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Emphasizing individual responsibility over state intervention, the Free Democrats want to ease the country's strict job-protection laws, reduce subsides and, most importantly, cut marginal tax rates.

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That regulation, called Reg SHO, went into effect in January 2005 and was supposed to impose strict close-out requirements on stocks that showed consistent and frequent settlement failures over a specific period of time.

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According to the 41-year-old amateur photographer, exorcism is performed in a number of ways, ranging from a strict diet over chanting Tantric hymns to, he alleges, keeping the "possessed" in shackles.

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