Sentence examples for rigid definition from inspiring English sources

He has a rigid definition of what constitutes right-handedness.

These terms are in common use but lack rigid definition.

"Over time, it's very difficult to put a very rigid definition to such a thing as a format.

Given the rigid definition of the hardware – OEMs must stick to the design set out by Microsoft – manufacturers face a challenge differentiating Windows Phone handsets.

There is no rigid definition of an old-growth forest; forests vary too much from place to place and species to species.

Bowing to international pressure, Switzerland announced on Friday that it would move toward a more rigid definition of tax evasion and help global authorities pursue tax cheats.

"There are no rigid definitions," said Joseph Jacobs, the curator of American art at the Newark Museum.

Anything to get away from jazz's rigid definitions, its oppressive sense of what's appropriate, is the right thing.

Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw (1968) uses all the stock ingredients of farce to question rigid definitions of sanity and gender.

Such themes speak to a sophistication that previous generations of filmmakers didn't possess or rejected since rigid definitions of racial identity are much easier to market.

Our essentialist urge toward rigid definitions of "human" (in debates over abortion and animal rights) and "alive" (in debates over euthanasia and end-of-life decisions) makes no sense in the light of evolution and other gradualistic phenomena.