Sentence examples for becoming more rigid from inspiring English sources

At a time of shifting populations and big changes in the fortunes of regions, the federal system is becoming more rigid and less responsive to local interests.

We tell ourselves that we are increasingly tolerant as a society, but the burgeoning growth of ADHD suggests to me that we are in fact becoming more rigid, and less tolerant of those people who have difficulty spending childhood and adolescence sitting behind a desk.

Some of us respond by becoming more rigid.

Also, various retailers are becoming more rigid in their return policy.

Multiple providers that used to have a "make it right" fund for unhappy customers or adapted their policies as needed to sensibly handle a situation, are now becoming more rigid and cost-driven.

Men may try to control their anxiety by becoming more rigid, but living in a constant state of "if you want it done right you have to do it yourself" leaves little time for life's joys.

Certainly, in hindsight, in dealing with a leader like Hosni Mubarak, in Egypt, it would have made more sense to push harder than we did over the course of decades to begin to open up that society a little bit, because it was becoming more and more rigid, and fewer and fewer people were benefitting from whatever economic growth took place.

Interestingly, even as Thatcher was working to open things up and making the British class system more like America's, the US class system started becoming more and more rigid.

Advanced stages of lockjaw will result in the jaw becoming more and more rigid, making drooling more and more likely.

Hyperdopaminergic DAT-KD mice displayed excessive sequential stereotypy reflected as a complex serial pattern of grooming actions becoming more sequentially rigid and persistent.

Though this may have been due to crystallization of more similar length (but distantly related as each member has only 40% sequence identity between them) proteins, it can also hint that the superfamilies are becoming more length rigid or having more of average sized members.