At right, a slightly more rigorous breakdown of some of the top stories of the year.
His new application would have to be made from abroad, which means he will be subject to slightly more rigorous criteria than if he applied from within the UK.
Now, as a professor I have had some experiences with "helicopter" parents, and were weather patterns on the West Coast slightly more rigorous, I'm sure I would have encountered "snowplow" parents as well.
The demands might have been slightly more rigorous and the list of rules longer than they were under Jim Fassel, but the players eased into camp with a sigh of relief that Camp Coughlin, at least for one day, was not nearly as frightening as some of them might have imagined.
Darling-Hammond says that when the federal government began demanding certified teachers in every classroom, Texas was among the states that responded by creating alternative certification programs, some of which have requirements slightly less rigorous than those for the trainers at neighborhood gyms.
It helps that this year's test is slightly less rigorous than those in the past.
A slightly more rigorous analysis incorporating multiple regression provides similar results.
What is missing from many systems biology approaches is the element of time, and to add it requires slightly more rigorous analysis.
Though if you honestly can't figure out how to laugh at this, maybe it's time you considered a downgrade to slightly less intellectually rigorous fare.
At times, Bubbles reads distinctly like one of those poetic, rigorous and slightly mad essays that posits a single form as pseudo-scientific key to all mythologies and mores: Emerson's essay on "Circles" ("the highest emblem in the cipher of the world") or Sir Thomas Browne's "The Garden of Cyrus", in which the 17th-century physician spies a five-pointed "quincunx" everywhere in nature.
That extra effort is paying off — even though their schools are more academically rigorous, they earn slightly better grades.
