6 sentences with 'strictly'
Example sentences and phrases with the word strictly and other words derived from it.
• « Christian learning was a complex issue because, strictly speaking, spiritual salvation was thought to be available to anyone simply by accepting the basic tenets of Christian doctrine. »
• « Simultaneously, Henry VIII petitioned the Pope for a divorce, a practice that was strictly forbidden. The Pope refused, and defiantly in 1531 Henry, under the auspices of a compliant local Catholic leader, divorced Catherine and married Anne. »
• « The elaboration of these texts is strictly based on archaeological, geological and anthropological documents. »
• « Only the forces of chemistry were involved: the combination of atoms with atoms in strong bonds, or "covalencies", and magnetic attractions and repulsions. This is strictly what is necessary for a chain of nucleotides to assemble copies of itself from the raw material (single nucleotides) that it manages to subtract from the environment. »
• « As a corollary, and in the face of an explanation that reduces the phenomenon of fear to a strictly neurochemical process that is beyond the control of the person experiencing it, it is worth asking to what extent human beings can think, say and do what they really want to. »
• « Some have explained this by suggesting that many people perceived the war as another civil war. The state, which was struggling to organise itself internally and had already drafted a constitution, could not get all its inhabitants to possess an idea of nationhood that strictly corresponded to the one it promoted. »