Sentence examples for could be rigid from inspiring English sources
As a Southerner, Wilson dreaded war and its ruinous aftermath; as a devout Presbyterian, he could be rigid in his righteousness; as a widower, he was susceptible to romance, and was distracted at the height of the Lusitania crisis by his courtship of Edith Mary Galt.
The substrate could be rigid like Si wafers or flexible like carbon cloths.
If the above considerations are sound, then there could be rigid de jure terms that fail to be directly referential.
If expressions could be rigid de jure without being directly referential, then even if names are not directly referential, they might be rigid de jure.
Here are some considerations in favor of saying that an expression could be rigid de jure without directly referring to its designatum.
On one hand, the collusive behavior hypothesis of Hannan and Berger (1991) suggests that following an increase in the monetary policy rate, deposit rates could be rigid upwards because higher deposit rates represent an additional cost for banks.
The detachable link could be either rigid or flexible depending on the application.
As shown in Fig. 4A, many populated class-average images show well resolved structural features for both 60S subunits, indicating that inter-subunit connection could be rather rigid (Fig. 4A).
Based upon our previous experience, we realized that amphiphilic porphyrins could be the rigid membrane-spanning units from which to constitute self-assembled pores.
The first two columns of K equality models/hypotheses in Fig. 3 are plausible, as a protein could be so rigid that a ligand binding site is unchanged with respect to binding affinity regardless of other bindings (first column) and this could be true within j-mers but not between them (second column).
Another possible option could be a rigid registration process of traditional healers and a licensing system to regulate their practice which could be strengthened through training and ongoing education, accompanied by a manual which outlines harmful traditional practices and their health consequences, and guidelines on traditional healers' role in ongoing patient education and care.
