Definition: 1. The act of examining something closely (as for mistakes). 2. A prolonged intense look.
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Use 'scrutiny' in a sentence:
1. No one suggests that any Chinese company that does well should face special scrutiny.
2. The stress tests also involve no scrutiny of individual banks.
3. He drew the conclusion after scrutinies.
4. Have you really measured the world by scrutinies, or through alembics and crucibles?
5. In corporate purchasing, competitive scrutiny is typically limited to suppliers of items that are directly related to end products.
6. Tepco is shielded by a lack of media scrutiny.
7. It has been the subject of your close scrutiny every morning since you were tall enough to see into the bathroom mirror.
8. This phenomenon bears more intense scrutiny.
9. Increasing scrutiny of executive and finance sector pay is inevitable.
10. They subject the effects of tourism to scrutiny.
11. His work looks all right, but it will not bear scrutiny.
12. Manuscript will be flagged up for additional scrutiny by the journal's internal editors, or by its existing Board of Reviewing Editors or by outside peer reviewers.
13. Some scrutiny of britain's position in the world was needed.
14. It was in this context that international support and scrutiny were critical.
15. Few wives in their forties can weather such a scrutiny.
16. They have opened their methods and data to scrutiny and invited independent measurements.
17. Contractors, meanwhile, face new scrutiny.
18. But its policy has been to avoid all scrutiny.
19. His relationship with the KGB came under scrutiny.
20. Like any other policy, QE deserves scrutiny.
21. There's still someone who deserves scrutiny—the person holding the phone.
22. Complex structures with more than three layers of ownership should arouse especial scrutiny.
23. Scrutiny requires information.
24. The longer they took to answer these questions, the more highly they rated the piece under scrutiny, and the greater their neural activity.
25. His private life came under media scrutiny.
26. The diamond passed the scrutiny of the jeweler.
27. But there's still someone who deserves scrutiny--the person holding the phone.
28. Public scrutiny had brought civil servants out from the backroom and into the spotlight.
29. His argument simply doesn't stand up to close scrutiny.
30. Scrutiny is another matter.
31. His papers were proof against all but the most expert of scrutinies.
32. His business activities have come under scrutiny from the press.
33. Chinese investments in the region are also subject to greater scrutiny.
34. Huawei has tried to open itself up to us scrutiny.
35. But more scrutiny can be a double-edged sword.
36. But many emerging market countries have also resisted IMF scrutiny.
37. But there's still someone who deserves scrutiny—the person holding the phone.
38. Just as the environmental harm caused by aviation and other transport must come under far greater scrutiny, the social cost of tourism must also be confronted.
39. All these definitions, while sounding impressive, do not stand up under close scrutiny.
40. The bonus culture also came under scrutiny.
41. You need to give a close scrutiny to the worthiness of the cause you be support.
42. First, the Court required especially strict scrutiny of legislation that employed a "suspect classification", meaning discrimination against a group on grounds that could be construed as racial.
43. The President promised a government open to public scrutiny.
44. Chinese exports are facing increasing scrutiny abroad.
45. And it would put global wealth dynamics under public scrutiny.
46. Yet there are questions about how well their own model stands up to scrutiny.
47. The documents should be available for public scrutiny.
48. Her argument doesn't really stand up to scrutiny.
49. The rules which the banks had agreed to observe made the opening of numbered accounts subject to much closer scrutiny than before.
50. Foreign policy has come under close scrutiny recently.
51. Their arguments do not withstand the most superficial scrutiny.
52. But it takes collective scrutiny and acceptance to transform a discovery claim into a mature discovery.
53. The Super Bowl incident, which Ms. Jackson termed a "wardrobe malfunction", has prompted new scrutiny of indecency on the airwaves.