Sentence examples for rigid grip from inspiring English sources
Monroe and Thatcher each sought to transcend stereotype but found herself equally locked in the rigid grip of their own image, or self-image.
Wang, who returned to the North to visit the graves of dead comrades recently, thought its problems echoed those of China's past and was troubled by the rigid grip on information and expression.
But others share his concern about the Communist party's rigid grip on power as it strives to reassert control over mainstream and social media, and to roll back some of the space that an embryonic civil society has carved out.
During exposure to fore-and-aft floor vibration, the head motion occurred mostly in the mid-sagittal plane; a rigid grip on the handrail resulted in higher transmissibilities than a light grip.
The nature of predictions made by analyses that use the MDGc CZM is illustrated by considering the classic problem of an elastic layer loaded by rigid grips.
With less than four weeks remaining before Iran's 38 million voters elect a new Parliament, the conservative Muslim clerics who have held the country in a rigid political grip since 1979 have moved to shore up their power by excluding scores of reformist candidates from the ballot on the grounds that they are insufficiently "Islamic".
Because the over-the-shoulder portions of the restraint are not rigid, the hand grips are mounted to the lap bar.
Any post-Kantian discussion of the relation of thought to being must come to grips with Kant's rigid bifurcation between phenomenal appearance and noumenal reality.
Moreover, her main argument that entangling alliances and rigid military timetables caught Europe in a grip that led the powers inexorably towards catastrophe is no longer accepted by most historians.
The demographics of the country are rapidly changing, young people are becoming increasingly liberal on social issues, and rigid, dogmatic religious stricture is loosening its grip on the throat of our culture.
