The tit-for-tat move raises the prospect of stiff price rises for bottles from countries such as Franch and Italy, at a time when Europe is hoping to export its way back to growth.
They also showed stiff collars rising up to consume heads and trousers that tiered out from midtorso to reveal three separate waistbands.
It is found that the ratio between the ground predominant period and the structure fundamental period significantly influences the reduction due to high damping and that, in some cases (e.g. stiff low-rise buildings), the actual code formulations may become unconservative.
There are stiffer punishments – rising to a €30,000 fine and one year in jail – for anyone who forces a woman to wear a veil "by threats or violence".
The latter is particularly important in the case of stiffer, low-rise buildings with short fundamental periods, for which the movement to the right hand side into the resonance part of the response spectrum might increase the maximum top accelerations.
(They will, however, have to pay stiff export taxes, rising from 25% this year to 60% in 2016).
"That bum rose, stiff as a stick; he didn't bend a knee or move an arm.
Cameron and his senior team are frankly scared stiff of the rising Euro-rejectionist tendency, too frightened to confront them.
A combination of low prices, pushed down by stiff competition, and rising levels of disposable income has had the expected effect on drinking habits.
On the day that I visited, a stiff, hot breeze rising up off the ground caught the rig's flag in a whiplash, and EnCana's spokesman, Paul Ulrich, and I had to raise our voices to be heard.
