Sentence examples for rigid hold from inspiring English sources

After a mile or two, I eased my rigid hold on the edges of the seat and began to relax.

As a cold spell continued its rigid hold on much of the eastern United States on Tuesday, farmers in central and southern Florida were bracing for freezing temperatures overnight that could damage orange, strawberry and tomato crops.

The trawl-net was fitted with a rigid holding box at the far end designed for live capture and to minimize the loss of scales and ectoparasites [35].

When using our proposed mobile robotic cart, users hold the rigid handle directly.

PAGE C1 Language Barriers on Stage "Outside People," Zayd Dohrn's smart but slight comedy drama about an American in Beijing, derives humor from the dislocations caused by the meeting of two distinct cultures: the comparatively above-board American way of being and the more codified and coded behaviors practiced in a country where unspoken but rigid rules hold sway.

Frame barriers consist of rigid frames holding an impermeable membrane and use the weight of the floodwater itself to hold the barrier in place.

But prospects for convening any conference looked remote in the face of the rigid positions held by parties fighting a civil war in Syria with undiminished ferocity.

Let's hope that under Obama, "sound science" gets a fair chance to dispel the "rigid ideology" holding our country hostage to a failed "war" on drugs.

Upon centrifugation of the cell culture, bacterial cells (and supposedly a part of the "rigid pellicle" holding the cells together) settle to the bottom of the centrifuge tube, while the GEC forms an adherent layer between the cells and the media (Fig. 4, D).

He had a very rigid foot, held in moderate pronation.

She has seen how living with extreme poverty and harmful, rigid traditions holds women and their children back from reaching their true potential.