Sentence examples for few rigid from inspiring English sources

In the past year, protesters have battled with riot police officers over and over, often within yards of the guards, who can move only once every 30 minutes — and then only to take a few rigid, slow ceremonial steps.

This allows us to use less generalized coordinates to address a system that contains few rigid or flexible body but with many pulleys.

The model relies into a discretization of the blocks by means of few rigid-infinitely resistant parallelepiped elements interacting by means of planar four-noded interfaces, where all the deformation (elastic and inelastic) occurs.

There are fewer rigid certainties to constrain her future, she can believe that no road is closed to her.

At the meso-scale, a curved running bond representative element of volume (REV) constituted by a central block interconnected with its six neighbors is discretized through of a few six-noded rigid wedge elements and rectangular interfaces.

A few parents used rigid disciplinary strategies by physically restraining the child to ensure that tooth brushing was properly performed.

"One thing we've seen in the last few years is that rigid rules and rigid allocations don't add value," she said.

Few politicians dare touch rigid labour laws or giveaways, such as free electricity to farmers.

The celebration of beauty is seen as bourgeois, safe or – when it comes to human society – oppressive, in its association with rigid norms few of us can live up to.

In "A Few Saudis Defy a Rigid Islam to Debate Their Own Intolerance" (front page, July 12), you quote a professor of Islamic law in Riyadh as explaining to a reporter, "Well, of course I hate you because you are Christian, but that doesn't mean I want to kill you".

The concern among British athletes and coaches is that too few countries are as rigid in their policing.