Sentence examples for rigid institution from inspiring English sources

It would be a mistake to hand control of it to some overarching, rigid institution, even if it is not under the sway of governments.

The church seemed like "a rigid institution dictating impossible norms to follow, an overly severe mother," said Lucetta Scaraffia, a scholar of Catholicism in Rome.

We first describe the institutional framework as a multilevel system at the bottom of which several "local and flexible" institutions apply to subsets of the society while, at the top, a single "generic and rigid" institution applies to all.

Because the election of China's president happened the day after Pope Francis was elected, many jokes played on the two opaque and rigid institutions.

Many in the industry are now waiting to see if he can bring his golden touch to such a large and rigid uptown institution.

How did America develop these incredibly rigid sports institutions, while in Europe the leagues are just much more freewheeling?

Such is the case again today, as the European Central Bank, once seen as the most rigid of institutions fixated on inflation, steps in to do what the member states of the eurozone are unwilling to do, with tangible moves to prop up its weakest members.

Interviews recently with many Chinese, and with foreign diplomats and scholars, point to fundamental questions about the economy today and about the decade-long program of modernization that set out to restructure the country's rigid economic institutions and transform China's economy into a more modern machine.

Employing professional male pastoralists in Laikipia does not amount to valuing or incorporating pastoralists' extensive environmental knowledge, especially when management decisions are circumscribed by rigid management institutions with specific technical goals and protocols.

Like Lula, experts say, Garzon will have to strike a delicate balance between fulfilling the lofty expectations of his supporters and working within the confines of rigid state institutions.

Marriage has never been a rigid and unchanging institution.