Private life, however, was rigidly controlled by the state.
Influenced by such composers as Anton Webern, he wrote serial music, in which various musical elements are rigidly controlled.
Mr. Khouri says that the technological wonders of today have wrought no changes on a political landscape that is rigidly controlled by the local dictators.
Instead of the earnest sports matches that were rigidly controlled by adult coaches, the stickball league was entirely run by the students and was dedicated to fun rather than excellence, just like the high commissioner himself.
So everything, from the music volume (deafening, either to keep out old people or because if they can't actually talk, people will drink more) to the way in which staff are ordered to exude informality, is rigidly controlled.
Programs like Vreps and PeopleSupport instantly answer frequently asked customer questions, but they're rigidly controlled and costly.
Programs like Vreps and PeopleSupport can instantly answer frequently asked questions, but they're rigidly controlled and costly.
"A typical day at one of these boarding schools reads like a page from 1984, where every aspect of living is rigidly controlled and people are treated like numbers.
"It doesn't surprise me that this outbreak is in Kedah, one of the more conservative and devoutly religious states," he says".A typical day at one of these boarding schools reads like a page from 1984, where every aspect of living is rigidly controlled and people are treated like numbers.
The constant tendency for faster replicating cells to displace others is rigidly controlled by systems that regulate cell division and by surveillance systems that kill cells that are not where they belong.
RP genes are highly and co-ordinately expressed and their TSS is rigidly controlled maintaining the 5'-terminal oligo-pyrimidine tract (5'-TOP) [ 4]. 5'-TOPs are mRNA sequence elements that have been intensively studied for their role in regulation of RP translation [ 5].
