Sentence examples for mostly rigid from inspiring English sources

But they have little, if any, influence on Iran's policy makers, who are mostly rigid ideologues.

The education that is being provided is still mostly rigid, narrow and old-fashioned, run by entrenched, Soviet-era bureaucrats.

We've seen lots and lots of 3D printers over the last few years, and they almost all have one thing in common: the objects they print are hard* and mostly rigid.

Though the R2 and XNOE data indicate that residues 259 336 are mostly rigid, the R1 and XNOE data also indicate that residues 337 353 in the C-terminal tail also retain some order and tumble at sub-ns to ns timescale.

It and the salmon shark are the thickest-bodied members of their family (length-depth ratio approaching 4.5), and consequently have the stiffest swimming style: they oscillate their tails while holding their bodies mostly rigid, which confers propulsive power with high energy efficiency, but at the cost of maneuverability.

As shown in Figure 5D, the binding "hot spot" functional residues were mostly rigid.

Gone is the signature, mostly-rigid design of all UP bands prior — instead, the UP3 is more like a watch without a watch face.

The criticism, mostly ideological, rigid and hidebound (ie very 1975), was pretty rich, considering that Albert and David Maysles' masterly 1969 documentary, Salesman, a haunting and bleak portrait of four blue-collar door-to-door bible-peddlers, was the apotheosis of direct cinema.

It is found that (i) the adsorption isotherm results of these two models are close to each other, suggesting that n-alkane model behaves mostly as rigid molecules with respect to adsorption although the isotherm for longer chain n-hexane is better described by the flexible molecular model (ii) the isotherms agree very well with the experimental data at least up to two layers on the surface.

Cavalié and Jónsson (2014) also studied part of this area using InSAR data and came to the conclusion that "our results support a tectonic model where plates, in the eastern Anatolian region, behave mostly as rigid blocks…".

In most cases, the values varied synchronously and indicated that the sides of the "main door" acted mostly as rigid surfaces.