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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

And what design offers as an educational framework is an antidote to all of the boring, rigid, verbal instruction that so many of these school districts are plagued by.

In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.

But trying to obtain stability from rigidity is illusory. The stability of the international financial system today depends on the willingness of countries with rigid exchange rates to allow greater flexibility.

For our part, we do not insist on a rigid adherence to these steps, if nuclear weapon States believe they have devised better ways of achieving the intent behind the steps.

Customary law is not rigid in that it is made to fit round the demands of global economy. It has become more rigorous in it s applications due to the influence of

Given the havoc once wreaked by the imposition of rigid models of educational, linguistic and cultural assimilation in indigenous communities, some peoples are trying to recover traditional communal types of non formal education.

In addition, the already devastating differences that exist between States are even greater than the statistics currently show, using simplistic and rigid criteria such as per capita income, which does not accurately reflect reality.

But one highly significant decision has now effectively been made. Abandoning the rigid distinction between developed and developing countries paves the way toward an agreement that all countries, including the US and China, can sign.

At the lower end of the scale, you find a rigid sequence, a sequence of all A's, and you also find a computer program, in this case in the language Fortran, which obeys really strict rules.

And you see the mountains, thinking them rigid, while they will pass as the passing of clouds. It is the work of Allah, who perfected all things. Indeed, He is Acquainted with that which you do.

And you see the mountains, thinking them rigid, while they will pass as the passing of clouds. It is the work of Allah, who perfected all things. Indeed, He is Acquainted with that which you do.

This does not mean imposing rigid inflation targets. But a predictable monetary policy aimed at delivering medium term price stability with a flexible exchange rate where appropriate  benefits both the private sector and, most importantly, the poor.

With regard to parliament, there is no need to follow Lebanon s rigid apportionment of seats according to confessional identity. All the same, Iraq s parliamentary electoral law should be drawn up to take two important factors into account

This does not mean imposing rigid inflation targets. But a predictable monetary policy aimed at delivering medium term price stability with a flexible exchange rate where appropriate benefits both the private sector and, most importantly, the poor.

It was also noted that the exceptions might be too rigid and might not adequately take into consideration situations where, for reasons of equity, the State of nationality of the shareholders should exercise the right of protection.

So there's a very sharp decline in liberal ideas in the Muslim world, and what you see is more of a defensive, rigid, reactionary strain, which led to Arab socialism, Arab nationalism and ultimately to the Islamist ideology.

And of mankind there is he whoso conversation on the life of this world pleaseth thee (Muhammad), and he calleth Allah to witness as to that which is in his heart yet he is the most rigid of opponents.

And of mankind there is he whoso conversation on the life of this world pleaseth thee (Muhammad), and he calleth Allah to witness as to that which is in his heart yet he is the most rigid of opponents.

Perhaps most important, from the point of view of the interests of this institution, the designation of some of our Member States as additional permanent members would lock into place forevermore a rigid regime unsuited to a dynamic world.

As to the form of work, the Commission considered that a model law might be too rigid and noted the suggestions made for a set of principles with a legislative guide that would include, where feasible, model legislative provisions.