Sentence examples for rigid insistence from inspiring English sources

The Toyota Way broke from 20th-century mass-production methods and a rigid, Western-style bureaucracy in favor of an equally rigid insistence on doing everything with maximum efficiency.

As the Nonaligned Movement underscores the extent of international support for Iran's right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes, the United States and its allies will be pressed to drop their rigid insistence on a complete halt to Iran's enrichment efforts and take a more nuanced approach to help break the deadlock on the issue.

And, while Facebook fundamentally changed the nature of identity on the Web through its rigid insistence that every user provide his real name and profile picture, Mark Zuckerberg recently commented, "I definitely think we're at the point where we don't need to keep on only doing real-identity things".

The one thing I found odd about eToro is its rigid insistence on the lack of parallels when comparing it to online gaming operators.

We have shut out that reality in our stubborn, rigid insistence on believing our senses, but seeing with the eyes of the soul is possible.

(It is possible to argue that Jack Welch's GE is a conglomerate, but his rigid insistence on being number one or number two in each of its businesses and Welch's own managerial talents make GE simply the exception that tests the rule).

In his 2011 report on BBC science coverage, the geneticist Professor Steve Jones criticised the "over-rigid" insistence on due impartiality that could give "undue attention to marginal opinion".

Too rigid an insistence on organic farming's somewhat arbitrary rules, then copper, a heavy metal, can be used as an organic fungicide because it is traditional can actually hinder the adoption of greener agricultural techniques.

And, "We do not share the rigid creationist's insistence on a literalistic interpretation of the first chapters of Genesis".

It would also leave the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, looking more isolated in her insistence on rigid austerity measures as the way out of the euro crisis.

What's creating your rigid attitude, your absolute insistence, he says, usually comes from the past: what you didn't get as kid and longed for, or what you did get and happily want to redo and redo.