The future of Barack Obama's signature healthcare reforms hangs in the balance after facing a rigorous challenge from conservative justices on the supreme court.
The review was aimed at achieving a more rigorous approach to who should get counter-terrorism money, and what it regards as Labour's bungling.
"We no longer wanted to be the place, the repository where those data lived, because we couldn't guarantee that they were methodologically rigorous enough for us to actually publish," said Erica L Smith, chief of BJS's law enforcement statistics unit.
When I spoke to parents of children with special needs, several wondered if the higher Ofsted grades were a function of less rigorous expectations on special schools.
Uefa, which has backed its policies with rigorous economic and survey research, is not fooled by the Premier League's relentless trumpeting of its good works, including the distribution of 5% of its TV revenue to grass roots facilities via the Football Foundation.
But her speed was the result of an extraordinary technical acuity due to the rigorous training she received in the years after the second world war.
For the past 18 months, the finance minister, Jan Kees De Jager, has been the loudest advocate for the most rigorous austerity for the bailed-out countries of the eurozone, and for the punitive new fiscal rules.
Western governments reviled him and were united in imposing rigorous political and economic sanctions against Poland.
Figures are usually based on impressionistic and subjective questionnaires rather than rigorous clinical evidence or diagnosis.
We had a rigorous, three-month consultation process led by officers, and the cabinet member for regeneration Rubina Khan was part and parcel of that, and we met the stakeholders and people were quite excited, but of course there was some anxiety and opposition but we made sure we heeded those apprehensions and accommodated them.
Born in the US, he spent much of his life in Canada; there and in Britain he promoted a radical way of thinking about diagnosis and treatment that was based on a rigorous assessment of the relevant evidence from a patient's symptoms and clinical signs, and from results of tests and published trials.
