Sentence examples for maintained rigid from inspiring English sources

Previously, the company had maintained rigid walls between its franchises.

All MHC bonds are maintained rigid during the docking, as most of the epitopes backbone bonds, since the epitopes main chain is already in the suitable conformation.

Despite its insistence that it maintains rigid internal discipline, individual members sometimes publicly stray off message.

Reform is inherently risky, but so, and probably more so, is maintaining rigid control whatever the cost.

Far from working independently and maintaining rigid communications security, the terrorists, as late as last summer, apparently mingled openly and had not yet decided which flights to target.

As always, part of the analysts' work is informed guesswork, since the North maintains rigid control of the information that flows in and out of the country.

Prosecutors later said the attack was the work of a gang of youths who had been enlisted by correction officers to help maintain rigid control over the unit.

Promising the full Austen experience — including a Darcy for every heaving bosom — the estate's proprietress (a tightly bonneted Jane Seymour) maintains rigid control of each sewing circle and drawing room liaison.

Were these Plasticine sitcom types actual human beings, "3C" suggests, they would be deeply damaged souls, the products of an uptight society trying to maintain rigid ideas about sexual roles in the face of social change.

Many Nigerian societies maintain rigid gender norms.

Compromise of pedicle screw purchase is a concern in maintaining rigid spinal fixation, especially with osteoporosis.