An environmental psychologist told me, If you're sitting in a hard chair on a rigid surface, you'll be more rigid.

It's very flat, kind of rigid.

Because triangles are the only rigid structures.

The New York Times has very rigid policies about that.

You mix them together and they make a rigid double helix.

First, rigid rules that wipe out shareholders and penalize long term creditors are a clear deterrent from bankers point of view. Second, because IMF intervention would reduce the influence of powerful domestic insiders, early intervention would be less attractive to them.

That fixed behavior which is rigid and stereotyped and ends up with a meal changes.

So the point here is that not all boys exist within these rigid boundaries of what we think of as boys and girls, and not all girls exist within those rigid boundaries of what we think of as girls.

These structures are often rigid, quite bureaucratic, dominating by men, and as such, intimidating for women.

The rigid positions on disarmament sections for this year's summit outcome did not emerge from a vacuum.

To put it simply, a sound management system cannot operate with rigid bureaucratic structures and institutional inflexibilities.

Now, clearly there are problems with the 35 hour workweek in France too much, too soon, too rigid.

The Security Officer will also be responsible for ensuring that all technology meets rigid security standards before deployment.

Indeed, the application of rigid solutions has contributed rather to a further widening of the gap between countries.

We do not believe that, as some suggest, such a step would hamstring the Council by imposing rigid guidelines.

In this regard, the constant search for consensus should not be hindered by unreasonable pre conditions or rigid positions.

Language, on the other hand, has an intermediate level of entropy it's neither too rigid, nor is it too random.

Sarkozy has called free trade a policy of naiveté, and wants to take a number of steps that would stand in the way of economic globalization. Although he does want to make the French labor market less rigid, he would block foreign takeover bids of French companies and protect Airbus workers from possible job losses.

Care must be taken to ensure that the preparation of a country's UNDAF did not become overly complex, rigid or time consuming.

One way forward would be to go further than Blair by ring fencing certain principles and creating some form of constitutional court to defend them. But the cost of such rigid rules may be high, and their effectiveness, as witnessed by the vagaries of the United States record on human rights, is less fool proof than is sometimes imagined.

Now most media companies television, radio, publishing, games, you name it they use very rigid segmentation methods in order to understand their audiences.

The study was not meant to become a rigid type of application of the principle but to provide clear guidance to its use.

So actually we are getting less from more for less and less people.

Less meat, less junk, more plants.

Isn't it ironic that Christians who claim to believe in an infinite, unknowable being then tie God down in closed systems and rigid doctrines?

Brazil underlines that the rigid deadlines set out in the completion strategy may frustrate justice, rather than assist the international community to end impunity.

It's more with less and less again.

Fiona's letters gradually came less and less.

There would be more democracy, less oppression more freedom, less terrorism more growth, less poverty.

This is serial and it's rigid it's like cars on a freeway, everything has to happen in lockstep whereas this is parallel and it's fluid.

I say, less and less the human touch.

Less effort, you're less persistent, and so on.

Fiona's letters were becoming less and less frequent.

Letters from Fiona came gradually less and less.

It turns out, most people over 50 feel better, are less stressed, are less hostile, less anxious.

That their parents be less tired and less stressed.

People are less kind. There is less trust around.

And how can ye take it back when one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have obtained from you a rigid bond!

And how can ye take it back when one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have obtained from you a rigid bond!

So, traffic keeps flowing, so that means less braking, which means less accelerating, less gas and less pollution, less time wasted, and that partly accounts for Europe's better efficiency than we have in the United States.

We in public health, we hate child death, so we want less and less and less of child deaths.

And then the other areas become less and less positive.

They work for longer hours with less income, less social welfare.

These qualities simply don't exist in Russia's Sovietized military organizations, with their rigid hierarchies and culture of blind conformity. The entire military philosophy in Russia must be changed.

We try and do more and more with less and less time.