This would put most of the games in the mid category if you went strictly by start time.

But going strictly by numbers misses a more fundamental point.

"I'm going to have to go strictly on what the guys tell me about him," Clark said.

At any rate, you really do go strictly by the book, in a way that few others can.

If you go strictly by the book, that is.

But everything else was going strictly according to plan!

Right now everything was going strictly by the book.

He was going strictly by the book, even though he no longer had to.

If the vote went strictly along party lines, the Democrats, with a 55-to-45 advantage, could easily win.