Sentence examples for rigidity from from inspiring English sources

"Terrorism springs from rigidity, and rigidity from literalism," he said.

"There is a complete rigidity" from the other parties, Fabio Berti, a pilots' union representative, told The Associated Press.

And who all will end up feeling the pinch because of it?" Recent polls show that more Americans want to see compromise — and not ideological rigidity — from Congress.

But the way the EWTD was constructed and imposed by Brussels is a perfect example of excessive rigidity from the centre, which seriously affected hospital rotas, training and staffing levels in many more countries than Britain.

1 Who took prizes with canaries? 2 Who was the victim of a cactus booby-trap? 3 Who provided details of cadaveric rigidity from his copy of Dixon Mann? 4 Which product of the Royal Free was thought to have administered air emboli? 5 Who lost his gold pince-nez in a stranger's astrakhan collar during the rush-hour at Victoria?

In the words of an (anonymous) Army officer who served in that war, "Our military institution seems to be prevented by its own doctrinal rigidity from understanding the nature of this war and from making the necessary modifications to apply its power more intelligently, more economically and, above all, more relevantly".

The time variations of helium isotope fluxes are presented here for rigidities from 1.2 to 2.5 GV and results are compared to previously reported proton data and neutron monitor data.

The systems within one set span a range of rigidities from κ = 0 up to the desired value.

Leaves diverge outward from the shoot; rigidity results from water pressure within the cells or from the support of a midrib, when present.

Their exceptional rigidity comes from frame members not only being bolted together at the joints, but also having the tops and bottoms of their crossbeams welded to the vertical columns at each intersection.

In the late 1940s they were already thinking about the essential rigidity and (from one point of view) logical inefficiency of machines which, unlike living information processors, can only do one thing at a time, leaving the whole elaborate structure of the rest idle.