Sentence examples for proved rigid from inspiring English sources

First passed in the '50s, in a well-meant effort to reduce sentencing disparities caused by class and race, mandatory sentencing statues proved rigid and overly severe, and they were repealed en bloc in the seventies.

Military life proved too rigid for some.

In Japan, the close industrial partnerships known as keiretsu have proved too rigid for some manufacturers.

Such corsets need to be carefully designed and Germany's may prove too rigid.

The mass coverage of adsorbed proteins was evaluated using the Sauerbrey equation [ 18] Δ m = −17.54 ng/ Hz cm²)·Δ f, because adsorbates proved to be rigid, as could be seen from small dissipation changes (below 1 ppm unless stated otherwise).

The overnight transformation of a relatively wealthy, powerful modern country such as Iran into a rigid theocracy proved that the Islamists' dream was eminently achievable, and it quickened their desire to act.

Sali investigated the case when X is an orbit of a finite reflection group and proved that X is rigid if and only if tight for the groups An, Bn, Cn, Dn, E6, E7, F4, H3.

Initially, permanent synthetic meshes (PTFE and Ultrapro) were used but they proved to be too rigid.

Indeed, the bent position is neither static nor rigid: as proved by NMR and X-ray diffraction conducted on Co-TPP-NO in the solid state, NO is swinging over four equivalent positions on one side of the porphyrin plane.

These devices however proved to be too rigid for intracranial application in patients with tortuous supra-aortic and intracranial vasculature and resulted in relatively high rates of failed treatment attempts between 4 and 14%% [ 6].

This is because it exhibits exactly the sort of rigidities that have proved so damaging elsewhere in Asia: a rigid exchange rate, and a rigid political system.