It was wrong, he wrote in the 1929 decision, "to apply rigidly to Canada of today the decisions and the reasons therefor which commended themselves, probably rightly, to those who had to apply the law in different circumstances, in different centuries, to countries in different stages of development".
But 'lawyer' does not apply rigidly.
Though the division is a useful one, it cannot be applied rigidly.
The effect of an overbroad law applied rigidly, without humanity, is to punish people as harmless as Jose Rios.
If applied rigidly, the new con trols, which were quickly adopt ed by Austria, would amount to putting the Arab world in guar antine.
The commission made it clear that the prospect of a deep recession means the rules that cap budget deficits at 3% of GDP will not be applied rigidly.
It is important to note, however, that the AMSTAR standards, which mainly refer to statistical tests, were not applied rigidly but rather flexibly in this context, with explicit considerations about the applicability of each item and the rationale behind (see Additional file 1, pp.1-2).
Obsessions (unwanted ideas, images or impulses that repeatedly enter a person's mind) and compulsions (repetitive stereotyped behaviours or mental acts driven by rules that must be applied rigidly) share the following features: Patient is aware that these originate from their own mind.
As a result, when applied rigidly by the software, practitioners made more referrals that were subsequently assessed as at population risk by the Regional Genetics Clinic, even though the referral would be considered 'appropriate', as it met the category for increased risk in the familial colorectal cancer guideline.
His predecessor may have been guilty of errors in both strategy and tactics: he tried to take lessons that he had learned as boss of the Apple stores and apply them rigidly to J.C. Penney, a quite different sort of retailer, and he refused to test his ideas or listen to objections.
The World Health Organization has proposed $108,609 as the value of a disability-adjusted life year, Lee says, adding that even though other countries have adopted the use of "pseudo-official" spending thresholds in coverage decisions, they do not apply them rigidly and without exceptions.
