Sentence examples for rigid deal from inspiring English sources

A rigid deal that imposes heavy costs on economies would not only be undesirable in its own right; it would risk scuppering the Kyoto process altogether, leaving the atmosphere far worse off.

Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, a technology research and consulting firm, said the music labels had been overly rigid when dealing with radio sites like Pandora.

Liquid oil-futures contracts have shifted the market from one based on rigid bilateral deals to a dynamic one in which oil is a fungible, global commodity.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Russia has become more rigid in dealing with the United States on issues like the Bush administration's plans for a missile shield in Europe, and it looks ready to test the administration of President-elect Barack Obama, a senior American diplomat said Wednesday.

Although we would like rigid protocols to deal with conflicts, this approach seems ill-suited both to a humanistic relationship between doctor and family and to the reality of medical care in the PICU, where many decisions must be made quickly.

Also questioned is the applicability of bearing capacity calculations developed for a rigid footing when dealing with a flexible reinforced mass.

They perform well when dealing with rigid objects, but manifest poor performance when dealing with deformable ones [4].

The EU delegation insisted on a variety of measures, such as restrictions on emissions trading, that would have made the deal more rigid and more costly than it had been to begin with.As for the fourth point, about congressional politics, there is no doubt that the Senate was never going to ratify Kyoto as it stood.

To deal with rigid velocity vector, a linear least square method is proposed.

Applications dealing with rigid foundations resting on homogenous or layered half-space media are shown to exhibit significant improvement.

The practical engineering problem of cantilever plates with rigid point supports is dealt with in this paper.