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The practice of politics is based on rigid orthodoxies that defy empirical testing.
It looked to be some sort of leathery tissue, but in a strangely rigid shape.
In pursuit of this passion, all have put themselves through a rigid training course to qualify as pyrotechnicians.
Building stone and roof tiles have to conform to rigid specifications, and must be locally sourced.
Besides wearing his lucky jockettes every week, he stuck to a rigid pre-match routine of eating hamburgers.
If your attic has metal joists, you may want to place rigid foam insulation between the joists and the ceiling drywall.
This season, part of her winning philosophy has been put down to a new rigid fitness programme.
The school is testing digital whiteboards, one of many new technologies that officials hope will help shake up the rigid education system.
Cells are laced with a network of fibres more rigid than the rope-like structural proteins collagen and keratin.
We now offer stepped bore rigid couplings with standard keyways in each bore.
It was an act of rebellion against the rigid strictures of both the contemporary social mores and the strict code of ballet.
The windage of many oscillating halyards is infinitely greater than that of a single rigid one.
However, we may consider a simple model in which the feather is assumed to be an isolated, flat, rigid object in a uniform airstream.
In 1903 he published Geometrie der Dynamen which considered euclidean kinematics and the mechanics of rigid bodies.
It is conceivable that the channel is not a rigid conduit but is subject to motions that form pockets separated by labile constrictions.
The honeybee can have a similarly rigid reaction to redness because most redness indicates flowers in the bee's normal environment.
No less interesting has been the enthusiastic reception of several recent political plays that steered clear of rigid political reductionism.
The realistic portrayal of the conservative and rigid Koro is in vivid contrast to his warm and loving granddaughter.
She sent Daniel an apologetic look, but he was regarding Melvin with rigid steadiness.
Similarly, at the upper end of the alimentary tract, rigid instruments were used for the examination of the oesophagus and for the stomach.
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It is the relatively opaque idioms which tend to be fairly rigid in their form.
His hand movements alternated between fluttery flocks of birds and rigid Godzilla claws.
It must be rigid enough to promote near zero surface tensions during the alveolar compression.
In fact, among surfers there's a fairly rigid code of beach behavior, which includes a strict pecking order.
Laser resection can be carried out under either local or general anesthesia with a flexible or rigid bronchoscope.
Charlie looked down at the eager young man sat on the edge of his seat, pawing at the rigid pleat of his trouser leg.
He was almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems, and mildly revolted by the idea of discipleship.
Intrauterine devices, also known as coils, are rigid contraceptive devices that are inserted into the uterus by a doctor.
Long and thin rigid elements make good levers that have high speed and displacement advantage.
This can happen through leverage by rigid levers, or it can occur in pliant hydrostatic cylinders of constant volume.
It's flexible polymer clay that hardens into rigid plastic after a spell in your kitchen oven.
Among them are lidding film for rigid cups, flexible pouches for pet foods and beverage pouches for juices.
The halls extended for about 30 feet in each direction before turning at a rigid edge to fit the precise triangular shape of the ship.
The cabin has plenty of storage spaces, but the door pockets would be much more useful with flexible sides instead of rigid ones.
Some farmers add rigid plastic part of the way up the sides of the greenhouse if using roll-up sides.
By using flexible fabrics instead of conventional rigid molds, concrete elements can vary in volume according to structural requirements.
The man sat calmly in the rigid plastic chair, his hands paced lightly on the cheap desk in front of him.
Like plaster piece-moulds, they require a rigid mother mould made of plaster or a synthetic resin.
His shoulders were rigid with anger, but at the same time, a tear escaped his eye.
After a long moment, her shoulders, which had been rigid with tension, suddenly slumped.
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Immediately, he sat up, his body taut and rigid as he strained to listen to their conversation.
She clenched her teeth and stayed motionless, waiting for his reply, although her entire body was rigid with pent fury.
A more rigid work schedule has forced changes, and now the main meal is taken in the evening.
These people follow a strict, rigid code of social custom and behavior, and judge the people who do not follow the rules.
Diminishing fiscal flexibility and a relatively rigid political system in China put constraints on the credit ratings, however.
The law is not, perhaps, ferocious, but the tests are rigid and factual, and the cases that result are easy and automatic.
You have to make a cut at categorising these things and it is a matter of judgment rather than following a rigid rule book in many cases.
They are setting up rigid control processes with high levels of IT security.
Through the end of the twentieth century, Kenyan households maintained rigid rules concerning women's roles within the patriarchal household.
The inclusion of a rigid rule against capital controls in a trade agreement makes things even worse.
Automated programs follow a rigid set of rules that may not adequately reproduce the common sense we humans use when reviewing a page.
High wages and rigid labor rules have hurt productivity, eroded earnings, and made companies reluctant to hire.
A ten-year programme was introduced to wipe out the liability by introducing rigid controls on expenditure relating to the upkeep of churches.
They're rigid about their proposals and strategies, but compromise on their core values.
They contend that large swathes of the population are becoming more rigid in their political allegiances.
I have a feeling that Horton's style wasn't as rigid as the way that it has been passed down.
So they often run the risk of becoming dogmatic and overly rigid in their thinking process.
The photographic image of the furry toy contrasts with the rigid stylization of the linear Chinese Court Style drawing.
Planning will be iterative and collaborative rather than sequential and linear, more a framework for learning and action than a rigid template.
In pretending to be a baron and a countess, the pair pokes fun at rigid class structures and upper-crust, titled society.
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His style was good and the author's liveliness of spirit survives the rather rigid framework of his subjects.
The persecuted Arians thought of themselves as making a last brave stand against irrationalist mystery-mongers and their rigid orthodoxies.
If all rotamers clash with the rigid part of the protein, additional conformers are made by 300 rotations around the final bond.
The denims are coated with a clear, rubberized coating, which is fairly rigid but can be broken down and softened in washes.
It is not possible to lay down rigid rules, as each case will depend on its own circumstances.
Students should not expect this seminar to instill a rigid sense of rule-bound correctness, whether grammatical or formal.
Falling in love with Maria, he comes to question rigid definitions of masculine and feminine.
And too, in the smallest of sizes, the rigid stem cams were easy to get stuck.
They aren't as effective in correcting some vision problems, including high degrees of astigmatism, as are rigid lenses.
As can be seen, each silicon atom bonds together with four of its neighbors to form a rigid crystal structure.
Buddha challenged the Vedic practice of rigid sacrificial rituals and the practice of caste systems.
Male-female relations among the Kyrgyz are less formal and less rigid than among their neighbors, the Uzbeks or Tajiks.
Sufis are typically more peaceful and less rigid than Salafis or Wahhabis, though there are militantly anti-Western Sufi leaders, as well.
A rigid abnormality was caused by subluxation of the tarsometatarsal joint with subluxation of the metatarsals.
Because the discursive babbler is setting himself some dogmatically rigid guardrails.
As rigid as the form often seems, the fact that it never excludes solely on the basis of style or natural ability is one of its saving graces.
The other end is secured to the malar bone by rigid fixation with microplates and screws.
If authority is too rigid on the one hand or teachableness lacking on the other, the result is chaos.
The rigid collar and tandem harness allowed teams to pull with equal strength and greater efficiency.
The aerodynamic forces generated by rigid and flexible geometrically scaled hawkmoth wings were measured.
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The experimental investigations used rigid scaled insect wings to study kinematics.
Its rigid structures and processes and predictable ways might stymie his unethical scheming.
Even Thomas Aquinas was a stowaway, as the Spaniards smuggled his scholasticism and rigid conceptions of social hierarchy into the Americas.
Soil accumulates behind the rigid leaves of the vetiver grass, and eventually forms stable terraces on which crops can be grown.
Elsewhere the dialogue recovers and proves capable of poking a little borax at the rigid principles and habits of Scotch piety.
All their Mercedes Benz engine parts have passed rigid quality tests for durability and performance as well as all the other car parts.
As a rigid airship, it had no need of ballonets, which are used only in pressure airships, or blimps.
Some of the rare plants to benefit from the Project will include limestone fern, baneberry, soloman's seal and rigid buckler fern.
The Alabarch is very kind, but I must confess he is as rigid as a bargeman's pole.
The cells die, which leads to a dry, rigid coil structure that securely anchors vine to the support.
There is no redemption from punishment as rigid as this, it would seem, only escalation.
I also oppose the three strikes law and all other rigid sentencing regimes.
So much of what we are taught as self-evident truths relies on rigid thinking.
The stiff peduncle, in turn, functions as a rigid base for the flexible insertion of the caudal fin.
Constant surveillance, time clocks, drug testing and rigid rules reinforce the workers' pervasive sense that employers do not trust them.
Before, they were very rigid and would go on about people behaving themselves.
The hollow-section aluminum control arms, highly rigid in torsion and flex, absorb a large portion of the forces acting on the wheels.
Drilling for the takedown screw must be done with a milling machine, or at the minimum on a good drill press with a rigid quill.
Each individual, or zooid, is enclosed in a sheath of tissue, the zooecium, that in many species secretes a rigid skeleton of calcium carbonate.
The stiff interfacing that makes the collar work would make the shirt front too rigid to hang properly.
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Far from being rigid or fixed, they are highly responsive to modification through fresh information.
The body is considerably more rigid which enhances safety and suspension tuning.
A girl's behaviour was molded to fit a society governed by a strict moral code and rigid social customs.
The committee has no rigid rules for determining the start or finish of a business cycle.
Even cities laid out on a rigid grid by the Romans had often morphed into irregular streets by the Middle Ages.
Maintaining these blocs rigid and unchanged was the key to peace and security.
The control frame on a rigid wing is just unconnected from the glider and you feel that unconnectedness.
Stuck to my bed, muscles rigid as a flexed boa, sweat pooling in the depression in my chest, I dreamt in horror of the two headed bull.
During the Victorian and Edwardian periods in Britain, society was underpinned by rigid moral and social values.
It handles well thanks to its rigid bodyshell and all-independent suspension, which make it a particularly agile car.
Firewalls, authentication schemes and rigid testing are musts for any company that wants to maintain a trusting relationship with its customers.
Slavery laws maintained rigid social roles for blacks and whites as bondsmen and freemen.
Instead of following a rigid plan, substitute an unhealthful habit for a better one.
It presumes a rigid adherence to a unilinear model and rigid assumption of the necessity for reinforcement of every behavior.
She found him lying on his back, rigid and unresponsive, with blue lips and apparently not breathing.
Any hunting footwear you stock should have boot uppers made of rigid material to provide adequate ankle support and protection.
It's also too rigid and does not fit companies searching for innovative breakthroughs.
The centrifugal force that keeps the main rotor blades solidly rigid at 90 degrees to the hub will decay rapidly.
There's the Uniform Man, who is emotionally insecure, with a rigid and brittle temperament.
This rigid plastic curled vane can be taped or glued to the arrow shaft using a normal fletching jig.
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The overall structure of the enclosure is sufficiently rigid and soundly constructed.
Tracheal stent insertion was performed under general anesthesia with a rigid bronchoscope.
The rigid bronchoscope effectively stented open the airway and when removed prompt endotracheal intubation was possible.
For rigid endoscopic delivery systems care should be taken to avoid beam heating of the sheath wall.
It's like a duffel bag, but with mesh sides, rigid lining, and a washable fleecy blanket velcroed to the bottom.
The Spanish bayonet has leaves that are rigid with leaf margins that are sharply serrated.
Ventilation was provided by a high-frequency jet ventilator through a cannula attached to the proximal port of the rigid bronchoscope.
This film is heavily influenced by the sparse sets and rigid character archetypes found in Japanese Noh theater.
In a rigid potential well, a molecule has a high vibrational frequency at room temperature, with a concomitant lower vibrational entropy.
In a rigid porous material, the normal component is clamped by viscosity and cannot move.
By definition a bureaucrat is an official who insists on a rigid adherence to rules and routine regardless of the needs of the situation.
Successful projects require enormous cooperation and creativity to incorporate nontraditional activities into a rigid bureaucratic system.
The delivery order need not be so rigid but the driver must be aware of the non-uniform loading which the vehicle undergoes in such situations.
Their rigid conservatism frustrates all endeavors of a cabinet minister to adjust the service to changed conditions.
I get depressed and frustrated when debates get bogged down in predictable rigid left-right ritual stand-offs.
The more rigid the character, the more you can notice the cracks in the foundation.
While not the same as rigid price caps, bid caps place limits on the prices that energy suppliers can offer to municipalities and companies.
A foreign body of the esophagus is removed more safely with a rigid esophagoscope and under general anesthesia.
Retrieval of the safety pin from the stomach was performed by passing a rigid oesophagoscope into the stomach.
It has sure-footed, precise handling with a very rigid platform, good steering, a willing engine and a great set of brakes.
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A chase involves larger, rigid fences while a hurdle race is run over shorter, more flexible obstacles.
She didn't move from her spot at all and looked as rigid and stiff as a statue even as her eyes watered from the smoke.
For example, tubing made from cobalt alloys can be used in the production of rigid or stiff endoscopes for use in certain diagnostic procedures.
By breaking in your shoes at home, you won't be at the center struggling through games in stiff, rigid shoes the first time out.
His love of life stands in sharp positive contrast to their hard-edged hatefulness and humorless, rigid work ethic.
Note that completely rigid kinds of certificates can still be specified by simply stipulating that reconsideration always fails for them.
Rules have distinct advantages as behavioral guides, but they can promote rigid responding that is insensitive to changed contingencies.
The weak character of the empire came from the rigid caste system that divided people and created unstable feelings among them.
In Wharton's world, other people and the rigid expectations of stratified society conspire to strangle individual happiness.
If you think you may not have time to check ties regularly, use a stretchy material such as rubber rather than a rigid tie.
Avoid whole herbs with woody or rigid stems, such as oregano, sage, rosemary, tarragon, or marjoram.
Robert McCorquodale suggests that an approach less rigid that a strictly legal approach should now be taken to self-determination.
Health systems need to be organic and flexible rather than rigid and mechanistic.
Its personality cult, rigid conformity and fire-breathing rhetoric notwithstanding, North Korea is not a monolith.
What started as a schoolgirl rebellion against Japan's rigid conformity is now causing ripples of admiration from the beau monde of international fashion.
The 16-strong fleet includes two simulators which are designed to give a choice of three rides, one in a helicopter, one in a Sea Harrier and another in a rigid raider.
The region is ruled by a rigid anti-government conservatism that has its roots in slavery and white supremacy.
The laws of supply and demand are as rigid as the offside law.
Because of this the martial disciplines are linked with a fixed set up of ritualistic procedures and are often performed within a monastic and rigid code of conduct.
If you are working on an uninsulated exterior wall, we also recommend cutting rigid foam-core insulation to friction-fit in the spaces between the furring strips.
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Does Ms McIllroy think teachers should brainwash students with a rigid and unarguable conclusion about the unique value of specific works of literature?
Breaking down rigid social hierarchy so characteristic of the Middle Ages, these riotous tales poke fun at everyone.
Corset shirts and rigid cage bustiers accentuate a curvy new silhouette.
Our rigid weldmesh panels are available in galvanized lengths which can be powder coated to suit your requirements in a large selection of almost any colour.
If popping is the rigid angles, boogaloo is more liquid-like.
A 50-year-old bread factory outside Grozny remains under rigid government control, with the price of a loaf fixed at five Russian rubles, or about 15 cents.
For all the perspective that can be gained through the artful use of analogies from prior campaigns, politics is too chaotic to be governed by rigid determinism.
Vocally they veer between manic and mannered, at times verging on hysterical operatics, while their rigid riffs resemble uncoordinated robots trying to play disco.
In contrast, the towers and anchors stand unconquerably rigid and strong.
The axial skeleton is rigid and may or may not contact the carapace.
After locations are marked, rigid steel frames are erected and bolted into the mud mats to hold the templates at the proper position and elevation.
As he said this, I indeed felt my arms become rigid and stiff.
The previous neatly ordered view of the universe, with the Earth at the centre, reinforced the rigid feudal order with serfs at the bottom and the Pope at the pinnacle.
The layers can be almost any combination of granular, stabilised or asphaltic materials, and future versions will also model gravel and rigid pavements.
Entering Bogue Inlet about dusk last May, the Coast Guard's rigid hull inflatable ran afoul of some breaking waves as the inlet bar was up that day.
He received a medical degree in 1884 but was soon dismissed from Boston City Hospital after running afoul of the rigid strictures governing medical practice by young doctors.
Standing only a few feet away from her was Briar, the same rigid expression on his features, his eyes dark with an emotion that was undecipherable.
Mauritanian society is strictly divided into a rigid caste system that flies in the face of the country's supposed march towards political liberalisation.
They had an overly rigid interpretation of Marxism and Leninism.
The resulting rigid and mechanically isolated bundles may then inelastically transmit traction over a greater range than in a uniformly elastic material.
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The Romanov tsars imposed rigid serfdom just as that woeful institution was fading almost everywhere else.
Although M. friedrichstahlii Rchb. f. also has a strap-like tegula, it has a very distinctive viscidium that is remarkable for its sagittate format and rigid texture.
He relished the opportunities inherent in the imitative style, especially what happens when imitation is allowed to lose its usually rigid tonal control.
It seems strange to me, a visitor, that the stewed tea, rigid morals and lurid wallpaper of Fifties England should jump cultures so easily, but why not?
The scientific controversy is beyond me, but I can recognize the fixed stare, the strained voice-throb and the rigid jaw of a madman at a hundred paces.
Components such as keel, engine beds, mast step, structural bulkheads and rigging loads are all connected to the grid, resulting in a very rigid and strong structure.
Both the corolla and calyx are fairly rigid and tomentose externally.
Like a sea the waste stretched out before her, ending only as the jags rose to breathtaking heights to become the rigid range of mountains called the Crown of Thorns.
Six are needed for a team and up to ten rigid wing pilots can go.
Bound together by mutual distrust, both sides end up lashing themselves to the mast of rigid law.
He is a unit in a line rushing on the enemy with the one idea of riding him down and transfixing him with his rigid saber, held at the position of charge saber.
The racer was originally built with two parallel interplane wing struts and these were replaced with single rigid I struts but even these did not solve the rigging problems.
Composite cavity-filling materials today have a tendency to shrink and even leak over time as the polymer cracks due to the stresses and becomes more rigid as it sets.
They are a plain looking, solid sort of shoe with a chunky heel, quite rigid support and come in an infinite range of colours and limited editions.
Your most recent book, The Golden Cage, is about three brothers whose rigid ideologies lead them astray.
In the 1950s, antitrust law was a sleepy domain filled with rigid rules and nonsensical results.
If you have chosen to use a rigid roofing you can use 1 x 4 slats instead.
Design can be an issue, too, as aluminum stampings are more rigid than steel and prone to springing back to their original shape after being formed.
And so there Miss Johnson sat, rigid with disbelief as two of her least subservient students gazed into her watery eyes and grinned wolfishly beneath little lambskin cloaks.
Rotational contributions were estimated in the semiclassical approximation for the free rotor considering both monomers and dimers as rigid molecules.
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Most of them are cast in a somewhat soft and pliable plastic and at first I was disappointed in this thinking that a more rigid plastic would have been preferable.
Is it by any chance maxing out into rigid non-negotiability?
Because unions and management, alike, have been rigid and inflexible.
The preference is for matrilocality, although this is not a rigid rule.
Oh, and Gucci's woman wouldn't dream of leaving the house without a rigid leather vest or that little fur chubby in mink and anaconda for special occasions!
Though he loved Levi-Strauss and Saussure, he showed how their relatively rigid theories of culture and language respectively contained the seeds of their own negation.
It is simply unrealistic to say that judges can decide every case by mechanically applying a rigid algorithm.
And Lula would likely have to shelve plans to reform rigid labor laws, overhaul a dysfunctional judiciary, and streamline a bewildering tax system.
His blue eyes pierced me and made my body feel suddenly rigid with fear.
It really was a surprise to see, after that dancing scene, that she was the rigid headmaster of a military school.
After all, the rigid dogmas that once underpinned the conflict have long since been binned.
To move beyond rigid rules and roles, the twenty-first century nurse must not only understand nursing and medical language, but use it confidently.
At a time when the church took a rigid and protective stance against what it believed were destructive forces of modernism, Petre's voice honored both reason and faith.
You, and I myself, grew up in a rigid society, unchanging except for War.
Open lung biopsy via thoracotomy was popularized in the 1960s. Before this time, transbronchial biopsy via a rigid bronchoscope or needle biopsies were used.
If no one accuses me of saying that we're living in a caste system or rigid class society I promise not to ask anyone to defend our society as a pure meritocracy.
This should be used as a guiding procedure and not a rigid template.
A team formed by Deaf Life investigated the well-known Moscow Institute, and proclaimed it a failed experiment, in essence because of its rigid oralist program.
The rigid social, moral and behavioural codes imposed by the group included severe restrictions on women's freedom of movement, expression and association.
Unlike the normal school year, the summer is filled with a crowd of instructors that is unfamiliar with the rigid rules usually inflicted upon the students.
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That dogmatic definition seems to have struck him as unscriptural over definition, an intellectual exercise which had developed into a rigid system of control.
Doctors are prohibited from doing what a patient needs by rigid practice guidelines.
Designers are flexible and intuitive rather than rigid and exacting.
My thought now is that it was all a very long time ago, in a much more rigid social climate than today, and there is not much sense in trying to hush it up any more.
It reminds everyone of the rigid service academy structure, inherited from British boys' schools like Eton, in which upperclassmen dominate their juniors.
Those who accuse us of social engineering often have very narrow, rigid view about the way the world should be and everyone should conform with that.
She was also notorious for her rude comments and rigid opinions on style.
A willingness to listen to and at least partially incorporate the other point of view has replaced the rigid and uncompromising attitude of the past.
At that time there was no rigid sequestration on the islands, and lepers, if they chose, were allowed to go free.
On other side, the addition of rigid particles to a soft polymer matrix has an embrittling effect on the composite.
The test involves the insertion of a rigid fiber-optic rhinoscope into the patient's nasal cavity.
Poly is a rigid polymer that is often plasticized for use in flexible applications.
Give winter protection to rock plants with grey woolly foliage by covering them with a cloche or rigid plastic supported on bricks.
This one-piece rigid coupling is ideally suited for use in line shaft applications and for instruments requiring highly precise shaft alignment.
The seat leather is overprocessed, and the plastics are rigid and rough-grained.
Similarly, the rigid Egyptian Canon and stuffy orthodoxies surrounding Niger-Congo languages are inhibiting the progress of knowledge.
Bill had been a sheet metal worker and an engineer by trade and had helped make the rigid safety chains which are in place all around the dock.
On the other hand we see a literary culture breaking free of rigid models of biculturalism.
Beyond that, how will China evolve its rigid Internet policy?
All Kay systems rely on a true strobe light source providing superior image quality for both rigid and flexible endoscopy.
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Comb jellies, just globes of shimmering film in today's oceans, may have had rigid skeletons and hard plates millions of years ago.
Meanwhile, on the other side, we are faced with an infinite grid, rich in differences but bound in its rigid digital consumeristic dynamics.
Contrarily, Storefront's rigid options for non-store pages calls for the flexibility of DotNetNuke.
The vehicle swims by coordinating the motion of four biology-inspired high-lift flapping hydrofoils that are attached to its rigid hull.
Also, measuring the output force via the motion of an inertial mass avoids resonance problems which plague rigid fixture tests.
Diamondoids are cage-shaped rigid hydrocarbon molecules resembling tiny fragments of a diamond crystal lattice.
This was made possible with the judicious use of rigid endoscopes, avoiding an osteoplastic flap.
We all jumped from our seats and stood rigid as plank boards.
The actual creature featured an avian feathered body and rigid tail common to predatory dinos.
Most minerals are too structured and rigid to experience the inconstancy and flamboyancy of Carley.
Don't make any wrenching, heaving movements on rigid door knobs and tight screw-top jars.
If properly stiffened, a column web panel is considered as a rigid component and deformability of it could be disregarded.
If you know anything about media semiotics, you will understand that they are scared rigid by the whole thing.
Unlike conventional measuring tapes, the Fat Max has a wide, rigid blade, is highly durable and has an extension capacity of 11 feet.
For most flexible bronchoscopies, a neuroloept anaesthetic could be considered but for rigid bronchoscopy, general anaesthesia is mandatory.
An urgent procedure was done to remove the bread tag under general anaesthesia via a combination of flexible and rigid bronchoscopy.
Bisphenol A, used in rigid polycarbonate plastics, mimics estrogen, which is known to affect breast cancer risk.
Even if thunniform ichthyosaurs could hold their bodies perfectly rigid when swimming, Cowen, speculates they may have porpoised, anyway.
If you want to blast away at the rigid patriarchalism and dogmatism of the church, fine.
Under the Taliban government, in power since the late 1990s, Afghans lived by a rigid set of laws.
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A black, non-shrinking, tastable liquid, Cable Cast FR forms rigid yet flexible rubber parts for a variety of OEM applications.
We, also, attempted to illustrate the relationship between devitrification of the rigid amorphous fraction and crystallization kinetics.
It is important to move beyond the rigid dichotomization of secular and religious in the modern sense.
Durastrength 200 weatherable acrylic impact modifier for rigid PVC siding, profiles, and injection molding.
Metablen MBS impact modifiers for rigid PVC bottles, sheet, film, and injection molding.
The calculus was immediately evident on rigid nephroscopy and removed with duckbill graspers.
Polycat 8 industry-standard catalyst for spray systems and pour-in-place rigid applications.
So are the legal and medical professions and those moralisers who insist ALL life is sacred still proud of their rigid views this week?
The Kiowa has a two-bladed semi-rigid seesaw all metal main rotor and a two-bladed rigid delta hinge all metal tail rotor.
The white eyeballs and white teeth of the horse, the panting flanks, the rigid legs all stood out eldritchly.
Like any arthropod encased in a rigid exoskeleton, a trilobite must periodically moult, or exuviate, in order to grow.
There was little point in grommeting the hole, since the wrapping was already as rigid and tough as its invisibility permitted.
There is a whole gradation of more or less rigid determinisms and more or less free indeterminisms, as they have been given in various theories.
The extrication devices are short, moulded, rigid boards which are placed along the spine and strapped to the patient.
Undergraduate curricula tend to be more rigid than in the United States and there is little room to take classes outside one's major.
It encouraged the rejection of harsh, rigid Calvinism, and promised a new blossoming of American culture.
At some stage in the nineteenth century, the rigid swords were replaced by flexible rappers.
This pursuit of freedom was largely a reaction against conservative values entrenched within the rigid heroic couplet.
Such rigid sails are typically made of thin plastic fabric held stretched over a frame.
The solo stepdance is generally characterised by a controlled but not rigid upper body, straight arms, and quick, precise movements of the feet.
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Although the Luftwaffe correctly interpreted these new ground control procedures, they were incorrectly assessed as being rigid and ineffectual.
Can lusty diet, and mollicious rest, bring forth no other fruits but faint desires, rigid thoughts, and phlegmatic conceits?
In their original form, Newton's laws of motion are not adequate to characterise the motion of rigid bodies and deformable bodies.
Duplex locomotives with two engines in one rigid frame were also tried, but were not notably successful.
The relatively rigid poses of figures relaxed, and asymmetrical turning positions and oblique views became common, and deliberately sought.
The superciliary whiskers above the eyes and the genal whiskers on the cheeks are less rigid and distinctly less mobile than the mystacials.
He was a man of such rigid refinement, that he would have starved rather than have dined without a white neck-cloth.
Status in early Ireland was not entirely rigid and it was possible for a family to raise its status.
The strong box structure of the biplane provided a rigid wing that allowed the accurate lateral control essential for dogfighting.
If two rigid sections of a glacier move at different speeds and directions, shear forces cause them to break apart, opening a crevasse.
This coupling between rigid plates moving on the surface of the Earth and the convecting mantle is called plate tectonics.
Referred to as an ophiopluteus, these larvae have four pairs of rigid arms lined with cilia.
Earth's volcanoes occur because its crust is broken into 17 major, rigid tectonic plates that float on a hotter, softer layer in its mantle.
Foreign body aspiration may require otorhinolaryngology consultation for rigid bronchoscopy.
Whale ribs loosely articulate with their thoracic vertebrae at the proximal end, but do not form a rigid rib cage.
Whale ribs loosely articulate with their thoracic vertebrae at the proximal end, but they do not form a rigid rib cage.
In 1895 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin attempted to interest both the army and navy in his new rigid airships, but without success.
The wall paintings done in the service of the Pharaohs followed a rigid code of visual rules and meanings.
Earth's lithosphere is divided into several rigid tectonic plates that migrate across the surface over periods of many millions of years.
The mechanically rigid outer layer of Earth, the lithosphere, is divided into pieces called tectonic plates.

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