Many have thought that if rigid rules become dominant in ethical guidelines and practical analyses, an important interpersonal dimension of professional health-care practice will be excluded.
"Once it's in place -- and the adoption rates we've seen at the companies moving into this aggressively have been 25percentt within the first six months to a year -- the corporation can essentially take some of that control back and start putting in more rigid rules" including penalties for going outside policy, she said.
And in his essay on Shakespeare, he attacks the rigid insistence on unity of time, place, and action in classical French theater by arguing that these ideals grew naturally out of the circumstances of both Greek theater and Greek life, but that it is absurd to make them into rigid rules in the very different circumstances of both modern theater and modern life ("Shakespeare," pp. 162 3).
ANTIFLUKE A situation in the universe in which rigid rules of action exist to prevent coincidences from happening.
It would not have been possible to specify in advance rigid rules because of the great diversity in handling and reporting heterogeneity.
In applying rigid rules, however, quality control sometimes discharges proteins that, even though defective, retain their function.
He pushed for what he called a "principles-based approach" to regulation, in contrast to rigid rules.
This arrangement is supposedly meant to expose the ideological underpinnings of conventional football, which is confrontational, aggressive and deterministic: There is generally a clear winner and loser, and players must operate in accordance with rigid rules and well-defined strategies.
Americans are searching for churches -- and temples, synagogues, and mosques -- that are not caught up in political intrigue, rigid rules and prohibitions, institutional maintenance, unresponsive authorities, and inflexible dogma but instead offer pathways of life-giving spiritual experience, connection, meaning, vocation, and doing justice in the world.
"The Boke of St. Albans," written by Dame Juliana Berners, the prioress of the Sopwell Nunnery, in St. Albans, in 1486, records the rigid rules of ownership: an aspiring birder risked having his hands cut off if he kept a bird above his social station; destroying a falcon's eggs was punishable by a year in prison; anyone who poached a falcon from the wild risked having his eyes gouged out.
