Sentence examples for rigidly adhere from inspiring English sources

His big-band music took the legacy of his fellow Canadian Gil Evans and joined it to harmonies drawn from the German classical composer Paul Hindemith, from Debussy and Ravel, and from North American folk music, but he never insisted that soloists rigidly adhere to his rules, and was happy for them to shred his lustrous backdrops with howling free-jazz odysseys if they felt like it.

The thought is that proportional representation tends to fragment the citizenry into opposing homogeneous camps that rigidly adhere to their party lines and that are continually vying for control over the government.

This means that they rigidly adhere to the legal doctrine of separation of federal and state powers.

Their beef is with inspectors who rigidly adhere to a one-size-fits-all application of codes and with the lack of communication between regulatory agencies.

But forcing teachers to rigidly adhere to preplanned "objectives" and specific measurements of "learning outcomes" has the effect of forcing teachers to be insensitive to where children are at that moment, to shun innovation, and to close down inquiry.

The people I spoke to have no interest in jihad, which makes sense when you consider that it must be difficult for people here to rigidly adhere to religious dogma when they also believe that certain masks contains the spirits of their dead ancestors.

Only Dayton's electoral schedule was rigidly adhered to.... "What comes after IFOR?" "Simple; I-Five".

Rigidly adhering to something that is not working would not be very helpful".

Though rigidly adhering to symmetry, the Romans used a variety of spatial forms.

Meanwhile, the Mariners treated Morrow like a miser with a tricked-out cellphone, rigidly adhering to a tight usage plan.

But other productions of the musical (which features a book by David Newman and Robert Benton, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams) have not rigidly adhered to canon.