Sentence examples for exercising rigid from inspiring English sources

Craig saw the director as the despot exercising rigid control over all aspects of the production, whereas for Appia (and Wagner before him) the poet was the initiator of the production and the figure whose word was law.

Because Cornwall has no coalfields, high import costs obliged the ore-mine operators to exercise rigid economy in the consumption of fuel for pumping and hoisting.

The Nazi regime, having exercised rigid control over Germany's cultural institutions, had forced any art deviating from an explicitly nationalist agenda underground for the duration of the war.

The Hutu make up about 85% of the population but the Tusi exercise rigid control over the country: 85% of the high-school & university students are said to be Tutsi; 99% of the Army is Tutsi.

Margaret, through rigorous exercise and rigid diet, regained her lithe form and boundless energy.

Her black hair, combed and pinned like Wallis's, is as shiny as shellac; her clothes are an exercise in rigid monochrome; and she keeps drifting through Sotheby's, either making eyes at a Russian security guard (Oscar Isaac) — who is also, we are assured, "an intellectual" — or mooning over a display of Windsor memorabilia.

The rotations of the mobile rigid body are caused by the exercising of the subject joint.

In locating a replacement, he selected one of the few surviving structures that exercised global influence through rigid central control and had an institutional tendency to secrecy.

It could be worse: the lively discussions on these social networking sites are preferable to the rigid controls exercised by more autocratic regimes in Africa.

Suitable participants will be randomly allocated to one of three treatment groups for the 6 week intervention period: (i) exercise only, (ii) rigid anti-pronation tape and exercise, (iii) elastic anti-pronation tape and exercise.

"I've had to exercise and keep a very, very rigid diet.