Sentence examples for rigid directives from inspiring English sources
Schools that require kids to sit still for long periods and follow rigid directives, even in kindergarten, can make some children seem disordered.
The lesson of the euro crisis, they say, is that to keep the pound, an independent Scotland would need to adhere to rigid directives on taxation and spending, and to establish with the remainder of Britain joint structures like a banking union.
He tore up Waterstones' rigid centralised directives that meant every shop from Aberdeen to Exeter stocked the same books, as well as the "awful" planograms – photographs of a display table that had to be faithfully recreated in every store.
On Monday, the pro-Brexit farms, food and fisheries minister George Eustice called the birds and habitats directives "rigid" and "spirit-crushing" and said they should be scrapped.
But the directives' framework is so rigid that it is spirit-crushing.
The European Union has recently implemented the "Network and Information Security Directive", which forces member states to adopt more rigid cyber-security standards, and creates an avenue for the 28 member states -- and the operators of essential services such as energy, transportation, and healthcare sectors -- to communicate (European Commission, Digital Single Marketplace).
To ensure patients are not shunted around the hospital to meet anonymous clinicians, Hunt says he will also reduce the number of ward transfers during a single hospital stay, speed up the introduction of seven-day working in the NHS and look at what he calls "rigid shift patterns imposed in part as a response to the European working time directive".
Retirement scares him rigid.
