Only then was she forced to accept that he was too rigidly fixed in his ways to ever change.
Let's begin with cases of the Brave New World variety — cases where children are subjected to intensive behavioral engineering from birth, in a way intended to make them accept their assigned roles in a rigidly hierarchical society.
English rules should not be rigidly applied, but it would be just as bad for the new state to accept primitive beliefs as a standard.
The men refused to accept that their image of the United States might be distorted by the rigidly controlled Iraqi news media, which offer as unreal a picture of America as they do of Iraq.
He said he had reached out to those party veterans who accepted the once rigidly authoritarian party's new, more democratic rules of play.
Each night, thousands of men deliberately get as drunk as they can as fast as they can, one of the few widely accepted ways of escaping the rigidly stylized manners that dominate social relations here.
Do you determine it by the height of a person or the size of his shoes?" Mueller was very emphatic in rejecting these and any other objections, and Reinecke adopted rigidly the same point of view as Mueller, instead of accepting my opinions, that is, those of the Amt Ausland Abwehr, which were offered him as a "golden bridge" for his acceptance.
In general, the kinds of flirtations and propositions that seem scandalous here are widely accepted in France, in part because French society is more rigidly conditioned and socialized, and places firmer upper bounds on conduct — and below those bounds, a much greater amount of low-level anarchy is acceptable.
In general, the kinds of flirtations and propositions that seem scandalous here are widely accepted in France, in part because French society is more rigidly conditioned and socialized, and places firmer upper bounds on conduct and below those bounds, a much greater amount of low-level anarchy is acceptable.
The Rauch report also suggests that the Island is too white, too straight and too rigidly suburban for its own economic good, and must now try to become more accepting of diversity to attract and retain a youthful and creative class of workers that will be a key to the region's future success.
