Sentence examples for a rigid decision from inspiring English sources

The algorithm, as presented in the current study, should be used as a guideline and not as a rigid decision tree since every patient is unique.

European Commission President Romano Prodi declared to French newspaper Le Monde: "I know very well that the Stability Pact is stupid, like all rigid decisions," describing EU budget rules designed to protect the euro.

He relied on heterogeneous information and innovative resources outside of the network to capture business opportunities in a timely fashion, successfully cracking the industrial lock through integration of resources and breaking rigid decision-making processes caused by values.

He says he was struck by how declining Mid-Western plants had a rigid, top-down approach to decision-making, while their Japanese rivals placed a responsibility for success on everyone (an overly rosy view of Japan's collectivism, perhaps, given the clunkiness of many of its big firms).

The Iraqis have a rigid military command structure and the decision to use weapons of mass destruction is not made at the field level.

Once he makes a decision, he sells it with a rigid confidence — "We're doing it," he told reporters several times on Tuesday, sounding a bit like a parent saying "because I said so".

Calculation of pile quay gantry type as a frame with rigid crossbar and a rigid beam is a special case of the decision method, presented by N. Gersevanov.

Under such circumstances, emotions related to the death of a relative will complicate the decision-making process, since these decisions cannot be made only from a rigid medical perspective.

A decade ago, fashion was a rigid system.

Bette has a rigid, difficult father (Ossie Davis), who doesn't support her in her decision to have a child with Tina.

Despite a rigid preselection of clinically low- and intermediate-risk patients, 19% of the patients underwent decision changes because of the molecular signature.