Sentence examples for rigid observance from inspiring English sources

"An overly rigid observance of these criteria is creating a tyranny of the computer, where solvent and promising businesses risk being choked off by their inability to tick the right boxes on a loan application form".

"The essence of the following games is that they should be conducted with the utmost amount of energy and the rigid observance of all the details connected with them.

The Festspielhaus reeks of atmosphere and history, and its rituals (no applause after Act I of "Parsifal"; doors opened, shut and locked by a rigid observance of the clock) are followed as by a congregation in church.

The oracle given by the priests as the inspired word of the Law, called the Torah, which was referred back to Moses in postexilic Judaism, acquired a new significance, involving a rigid observance of its ritual and legal commands that permeated every aspect of life, worship, and conduct.

It does not demand of states strict observance of rigid categories nor precision of technical phrasing in their exercise of the most basic power of government, that of taxation.

The three existing congregations of Trappists were united by Pope Leo XIII as the independent Reformed Cistercians of the Strict Observance; they follow the primitive custom of Cîteaux with an emphasis on silence and austerity but without the rigid regulations of the early Trappists.

Rather than rigid ritual observance, they tend to support the notion that religion should lead one to live a better more moral life.

The Helena Daily Independent described a Montana woman named Mrs. Wolf Sabolsky in the 1870's as "so rigid in her observance that she might be said to have been a vegetarian".

Until recently the day of rest was often a day of battle as haredim sought to impose their rigid form of Sabbath-observance on the rest of the population, closing roads and stoning cinemas.

An observance commemorating 9/11.

Memorial Observance will be private.