Sentence examples for rigid place from inspiring English sources

Not like the Latvian Home Stretch, but like amid a rock and a rigid place, which is, in truth, somewhat similar to the Latvian Home Stretch.

"This has never been a rigid place with bureaucratic lines of control and rules about who to call," Mr. Welch said in a telephone interview yesterday.

A view I hear repeatedly from homeless veterans about our society is that it is a rigid place often defined by haste, dysthymia and disgust.

When you make laws that mandate the definition of a social custom, you will always be, in essence, trying to bottle lightning, as something that evolves simply cannot be held in rigid place.

Each newborn was positioned in a semi-upright position (30°) in an adapted rigid seat placed on a table facing a 19-inch DELL colour monitor, 35 cm away from the infant's eyes.

Utopias, for all their promise of freedom, turn out to be extraordinarily rigid places, full of rules and demarcations -- attempts to dissolve or constrain desire, greed, envy or other human frailties.

If you are using a rigid liner, place the container in the hole and back fill dirt around it to keep it in place.

And one student who had thought of the church as a patriarchal rigid "moralistic place of judgment" had found in her studies deeper traditions "that felt like life, felt like water, like food I needed".

Despite elaborate modeling assumptions, the methods were too rigid to place sequences on the optical map in an automated fashion.

The Balenciaga series (2007-08) Frenchench Vogue looks like selfies by the rich and quasi-famous, women in designer coats and fur-rimmed jackets, smiling for snapshots in blurred-out nightclubs; the Chanel series (2010-12) for Pop magazine places the Chanel-clad artist in weird, rigid poses, placed against defocused arctic landscapes.

The analyses performed reveal that base isolation applied to a rigid body placed on a frame is not always appropriate in cases where the same body is placed on a fixed base.