Sentence examples for had been rigorous from inspiring English sources

It had cost £50m, killed 11,000 badgers and the science had been rigorous.

Mr. Huerta defended that approach on Friday, saying the process had been rigorous.

Ritchie said he had personally spoken with another 30 people and that the panel's work had been "rigorous and objective".

Adam S. Lee, the chief of the F.B.I. section overseeing civil rights, said that the bureau had been rigorous in pursuing these cold cases, following any evidence that might lead to prosecutions.

Nietzsche's education in classics had been rigorous, and his conversion was soon complete; he was appointed professor of classical philology at the University of Basel at the age of twenty-four.

After the recent Polish Campaign, the German Army staff analysis had been rigorous in its analysis of that battle.

A trained annalist, his research for each novel has been rigorous.

It will be no small task, Kidd acknowledged, and the preparation has been rigorous.

The team behind New Dimensions in Testimony has been rigorous in its conduct about recording and representing its subject.

It has been rigorous in the development of antitrust theory and an energetic enforcer of the law.

The fact that it is known to be successful is because its organisers have been rigorous in measuring their outputs".Sustainable development" sounds contradictory.