Britain would have done well to heed tradition and deny the honor of a state visit to this pope, a blunder-prone spiritual leader of rigid intellect and uncommunicative soul, too remote to heal a church in crisis.
But the episode reinforces perceptions of church leaders as rigid, dogmatic, out of touch — and very suspicious of independent-minded American nuns.
He'd served time in prison, in 1999 for reading a poem that seemed to celebrate militant Islam but his jailers had been the country's rigid, military-backed secular leaders who, by then, seemed as suited to the present day as dinosaurs.
Forcing wages higher and making contracts more rigid (another of the Labour leader's plans) puts that at risk.
This paper investigates a quaternion-based finite-time cooperative attitude synchronization and tracking of multiple rigid spacecraft with a virtual leader subject to bounded external disturbances.
Italy's outgoing prime minister has warned European leaders that the rigid austerity policies of the past three years have generated mass disaffection with the EU and a populist political backlash.
For many young American Muslims, stigmatized by their peers after the Sept. 11 attacks but repelled by both the Bush administration's reaction to the attacks and the rigid conservatism of many Muslim leaders, the novel became a blueprint for their lives.
It has set up a rigid career structure in which leaders are identified early and sent to show their mettle in minor regional posts before re-emerging at the top, like sons of factory owners learning the ropes before inheriting the business.
In this he was more rigid than other early Massachusetts leaders like John Winthrop, but less confrontational than John Endecott.
Her arms dangled awkwardly, until, overwhelmed by the ovation from the congress of her Christian Democratic party, Angela Merkel managed a wave so rigid it suggested an East German leader from the Soviet days.
