Sentence examples for imposing rigor from inspiring English sources

Cyprus also shows the difficulty of imposing rigor on an ex post basis.

These include the lack of a mechanism for imposing budgetary rigor on its members and the few options for members in crisis.

Concerned about the future of the nation's economy, American educators have over the past decade imported pages from the strict curriculums of Asian schools and Europe's elite academies, imposing the rigor and seriousness of high school on the lower grades.

It is difficult to impose legislative rigor in an area in which artistic impulses collide with scientific pseudo-certainties and psychological and emotional imponderables.

That approach imposes disciplinary rigor -- "tastes changed" could too easily explain just about anything -- but it makes accounting for fashion hard.

It is how the executive branch imposes empirical rigor on its agencies, and coheres their work into a single budget.

I had fled the campus for another university's program in Paris the previous year after the sex and drugs had gotten out of control and I had attempted to impose some rigor and structure as well as some intellectual discipline back in my life.

"Superintelligence" is not intended as a treatise of deep originality; Bostrom's contribution is to impose the rigors of analytic philosophy on a messy corpus of ideas that emerged at the margins of academic thought.

The governor's actions, if executed, would constitute the largest such experiment in American history and are intended to impose the rigors of the private sector on a system that has a $200 million operating deficit in its nearly $2 billion budget this year.

On the salmon one, thin straws of purple cut horizontally across the pattern, imposing a bit of rigor.

Rory and her siblings describe their mother's childhood in the Skakel clan, a large, wealthy Irish Catholic family very much like the Kennedys — athletic, competitive, rambunctious, but without the iron discipline or intellectual rigor imposed by Joe and Rose Kennedy, Ethel's father- and mother-in-law.