Sentence examples for rigidify from inspiring English sources
verb
To make rigid, to cause to be or become rigid.
"It's going to rigidify the already powerful racist tendencies in Israeli society," she said, worrying.
The existing paradigm serves to rigidify decision-making at a time when extraordinary flexibility and rapid change are essential.
When it sinks too low, capitalism becomes sclerotic – real wages rigidify, debts weigh more heavily and demand can take a knock, as consumers are relieved of the pressure to beat price rises tomorrow by parting with their money today.
You could even argue that it was a substitute for religion, blossoming as faith inclined to rigidify and evaporate at the same time.
Insofar as we do not close in on ourselves and rigidify our linguistic delimitations of the world, we can open ourselves up to the silence of this surrounding expanse of unlimited openness, which in turn allows us to speak and act more freely and responsibly in the world of linguistic significance (see Ueda 2011b; Davis forthcoming).
Two ways to rigidify a non-rigid definite description have been explored.
As the economic crisis deepened, middling ranks lost out, and social stratification between rich and poor rigidified.
Moreover, the conventional translations are by no means reliable, and most of the names themselves are of somewhat recent origin, probably crystallized and rigidified by the exigencies of colonial administration more than by the realities of indigenous culture.
Scalia likes to say that a Constitution is about "rigidifying things," whereas elections introduce flexibility into the system.
A fully grown plant cell may retain its primary cell wall (sometimes thickening it), or it may deposit an additional, rigidifying layer of different composition; this is the secondary wall.
Circling like the movements of the mind, his films progress through time without rigidifying into a narrative.
