Sentence examples for rigid stands from inspiring English sources

Where John Paul was charismatic and tended to soften his rigid stands with human warmth, Cardinal Ratzinger is bland in public and pulls few punches about his beliefs.

In addition to a two-thirds drop in the church's congregation over the last decade, he said, he has seen acute disaffection in his own family: siblings who are either hostile or indifferent to the church, because of its rigid stands against remarriage and same-sex relationships.

Nevertheless, it may be thought that Thomas was ill-advised in his rigid stand on this point.

Mr. Obama's proposed Buffett Rule puts a new spin on that pitch, as he tries to put Republicans in Congress and in the presidential race on the defensive for their rigid stand against higher taxes.

"We could I fear maintain a rigid stand on the legal rights and wrongs at best only at the cost of a great deal of bitter and unnecessary political trouble here.

The crisis in Manchuria (Northeast China) brought about by the Mukden Incident of 1931 and the war between China and Japan that broke out in 1937 led the United States to adopt a rigid stand in favour of the Open Door policy, including escalating embargoes on exports of essential commodities to Japan, notably oil and scrap metal.

If the cargo and freight forwarding company takes rigid stand in offering container Container Shipping services, then you should search for better professional international shipping company or freight and cargo mover.

A mathematical model for an elastic wind turbine blade mounted on a rigid test stand is derived and compared with experimental results.

The President took a rigid ideological stand and got a rigid ideological response.

As Boo-Seng stands rigid, unable to face the next moment, Jerry gently prods him: "Mr. Lee?

Marina, the Polish princess with whom Dimitri falls in love, stands rigid, arms at her sides, wrists bent at 90-degree angles like a mannequin while her suitor professes his undying love.