Federal policy continues to move away from the rigid certainties of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind legislation.
There are fewer rigid certainties to constrain her future, she can believe that no road is closed to her.
There is no "right" side in the play; the point, instead, is that the West has cloaked itself in its own rigid certainties.
I grew up in a world constrained by rigid certainties; life would follow a predetermined path and the route was largely determined by others.
The sight of Adrian Lester – a man playing a woman disguised as a man – being courted by Patrick Toomey's unabashedly virile Orlando left one questioning the rigid certainties of gender.
This novel is set in Japan before and after the second world war, but it was very much shaped by the Britain in which I was then living: the pressures on people in every walk of life to take political sides; the rigid certainties, shading into self-righteousness and sinister aggression, of ardent, often youthful factions; the agonising about the "role of the artist" in a time of political change.
His body and voice are rigid with certainty.
A saucer-eyed junior nun, played by Amy Adams, suspects Fr Flynn of molesting one of the boy pupils; she timidly confides her fears to Sister Aloysius, who armed with nothing but righteous and rigid moral certainty, instantly embarks on her own campaign against the priest.
And I reject their grim, rigid, semi-dead certainty.
But they need the right environment, including a relaxation of South Africa's labour laws, among the most rigid in the world, and greater policy certainty from ministers.
