Sentence examples for rigid state from inspiring English sources

These are not unthinking apparatchiks of a rigid state orthodoxy.

Mrs Bandaranaike also imposed rigid state control over the economy, which had the now familiar consequences.

Somehow, Mr. Sikkema has figured out a way to work spontaneously within a fairly rigid state bureaucracy.

Ever wondered why US planning, from the scale of the city block to the rigid state boundary, is so square?

But because of irrationally rigid state and federal laws, it is currently only available in Colorado, where it is grown.

The process is said to preserve organs in a rigid state for an estimated 1,000 years.

Vargas Llosa saw the threat of totalitarianism in the rigid state-driven economy and the nationalizations imposed by the ruling American Popular Revolutionary Alliance.

The ones that are stuck, overwhelmed by rigid, state-owned social housing, or by economic systems that offer the poor no way out of the slums are in trouble.

Creativity, closely aligned with individuality, was seen as a character trait necessary for the democratic citizen, Ogata writes — a contrast to an image of the more rigid, state-directed child rearing in Soviet countries.

Despite a rigid, state-imposed conservatism that shuns any semblance of democracy, the aged leading princes, and the unsavoury antics of lesser princes lording it over them, Saudi Arabia's 25m inhabitants have rarely protested loudly.

In Turkey, the government can open cases against authors or publishers based on complaints about content filed by private citizens, a far-reaching power that sharply limits freedom of expression and is an enduring part of Turkey's rigid state-controlled past.