The START treaty also established stringent and very intrusive verification procedures.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

There would be more stringent monitoring procedures and minimum standards for people who work in the animal experiment sector.

BBC: Animal welfare laws

By using stringent sterilisation procedures, the researchers satisfied themselves that modern bacteria had (literally) only a billion-to-one chance of slipping into their ancient samples.

ECONOMIST: Old salts

These developments are likely to result in accelerated decommissioning costs, increased capital expenditures for higher cost replacement generation, lower reserve margins, and higher operating costs at existing nuclear plants as a result of increased scrutiny, more stringent safety procedures, and longer required maintenance outages.

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