"I wanted to see what the programs are, to screen the environments to see how different they are -- if they're tiny, or if they're rigid, that can help us adjust our expectations.
Rotations are rigid, that is, in multi protein structures, the whole complex undergoes a rotation and there is no torsion.
"There was this sudden rigidity for the sake of being rigid that just made no sense to me," Ms. Nelson said.
In describing the absence of MIL in the Arab world's education programs, Tayie admitted that curricula are rigid, that there is limited space for development, that the system is individualistic, that it does not encourage teamwork, and that school is not very attractive to children.
They also recognized that not every policy is rigid and that there will be exceptions, and they allow for that too.
In addition, we assume the gearbox casing is rigid so that the vibration propagation along the casing is linear as did in Ref. [31].
An iron hand is rule that is rigid, stubborn, severe, even cruel; iron-fisted has an additional connotation of "parsimonious, close-fisted, niggardly".
However, even when the graph is rigid there may be ambiguities that give rise to more than one possible realization.
Even though there are rigid designators that are not directly referential, it is plausible to suppose that all directly referential expressions are rigid designators (as Kaplan suggests: 1989b, p. 571).
"If you're rigid like that and you play jazz," he explains, switching into scat mode, "you'll never swing".
