Sentence examples for rigid devotion from inspiring English sources
Advocates for immigrants are condemning the Suffolk County executive, Steve Levy, as somehow complicit in the killing for his rigid devotion to immigration enforcement.
In reading this book, I was reminded of the columnist Dan Savage's long-running contention that heterosexual couples would have more stable relationships if they had a less rigid devotion to the ideal of monogamy.
The problem at the new Yankee Stadium is that for all the team's rigid devotion to recreating the old ballpark's dimensions, it reduced by 20 feet the distance from home plate to the backstop, to 52 feet 4 inches.
His son never discovers the book, but several hundred years later, after an apocalyptic flood has destroyed the planet, a primitive group of humans digs it up and takes its lessons as gospel, following Dave's every bitter word with rigid devotion and creating a harsh, crude and tyrannical society.
Some WSPU members were outraged by this sudden rigid devotion to the government, the leadership's perceived abandonment of efforts to win the vote for women, and questions about how funds collected on behalf of suffrage were being managed with regard to the organisation's new focus.
He calls one former prime minister, Morarji Desai, "a rigid personality with a devotion to auto-urine therapy and cow protection".
Yet, even at this hour, leaders on both sides of the Atlantic seem determined to handcuff fiscal policies — the main tools that can increase jobs, consumer demand and economic growth — with an unquestioning devotion to rigid austerity.
Representative Carolyn Maloney, a Manhattan Democrat who has criticized FEMA for what she considers a devotion to rigid bureaucracy, said she was outraged that an informal policy could stand in the way of helping the city and companies.
The story of his investment success has been told often, here and elsewhere: his devotion to the rigid analysis of balance sheets and P&L statements advocated by his teacher Benjamin Graham; his partnership with Charles Munger, which influenced Buffett to modify some of his earlier concepts.
Quick lunch! the neon cries, and I Rigid over the land they stride, From other shores, and from our own sometimes With what devotion he obeys One praises where one can the scenes of Sport, I know a man whose daily breakfasts lasts.
It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission.
