Sentence examples for rigid power from inspiring English sources

And yet beneath this rigid power structure, a barely controlled chaos often prevails.

She describes the department she works in as "very American-like" in that it is filled with young people and has no "big bosses" or rigid power structures.

The analysis demonstrates the pervasive role of unequal and rigid power relations in shaping Proálcool's social impacts.

These events sharply contrast with the rigid power structures of the 18th century.

Alvaro Vargas Llosa of The Independent Institute has hypothesized that Guevara's contemporary followers "delude themselves by clinging to a myth", describing Guevara as "Marxist Puritan" who employed his rigid power to suppress dissent, while also operating as a "cold-blooded killing machine".

Not long after Ben was born, Mr. Vrobel, who is 6 feet 3 inches, dropped to 180 pounds from a high of 260 after rigid power-dieting, portion control, death to carbs.

The predictions of the proposed model are compared with FE simulations with the realistic rigid, power-law hardening (R-PLH) material model based on the actual experimentally derived stress strain curves.

Fleas (Siphonaptera) rely on the pleural arches to make the thorax rigid when powering their jumps by contractions of trochanteral depressor muscles in the thorax [ 22].

The sculptural feats, which took almost two years to complete, collapse any rigid distinctions between power and play, grace and force, rigidity and fluidity.

The war ended in 1990 after a rigid apportioning of power among religious sects.

No. 1 Novak Djokovic, one of the most elastic players in the game, will be the heavy favorite against No. 8 Juan Martin del Potro, who plays with a rigid stiffness and power that evokes tree limbs in a storm.