The test rig is modelled as a single-degree-of-freedom system and must be assembled by using stiff bearings and torsionally compliant shafts.
Three decades later, Saleh retains a stiff, military bearing, with a strong jaw and glinting eyes.
But if anything, the younger Bush's staging of his masculinity -- his cowboy boots, his stiff, hypererect bearing, his landing a Navy jet on the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln -- is more calculated and effortful, and therefore more inviting of scrutiny, than his father's.
With his stiff, military bearing, his harsh machismo toward his wife (played by Shohreh Aghdashloo, also nominated for an Oscar), his insistent teaching to his son, Sir Ben conveys the man's desperation to salvage what he can of the family honor.
Mr. Bedford's stiff posture and serene bustling suggest a woman bearing her rectitude like a suit of armor and her trials with the surety of the righteous.
The control of compaction's degree of the lower pavement layers in Poland usually is done by making use of stiff-plate bearing tests.
BRRPs are intended to be used as stoppers, and when they are installed at the edges of girder-type bridges, they will act as stiff elastic bearings in small to moderate earthquakes (called "Level 1 earthquakes" in Japan) and as energy dissipating dampers in large earthquakes (called "Level 2 earthquakes" in Japan).
Many Times reporters, especially younger ones, found the paper's reporting too stiff and bland, bearing the stamp of far too much officialese.
As Arnold, a Swiss villager romantically involved with an Austrian princess, the tenor Michael Spyres sang sweetly and stylishly but sometimes strained for climactic notes; more troubling was a stage bearing stiff and detached even by concert standards.
