Sentence examples for unduly rigid from inspiring English sources

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But its refusal even to begin to talk about a weapons ban in space has been unduly rigid.

Amid the financial flux of the 21st century, however, driving an economy by unduly rigid rules is not equivalent to sticking to the road.

Daley partisans dispute that, noting Mr. Daley's compliance when serving as state's attorney and his decision not to fight unduly rigid hiring rules after arriving at City Hall in 1989.

The Observer's literary editor, William Skidelsky, said that it would be "unduly rigid" to attempt to enforce "a strict 50/50 division of genders on the Observer's books pages", but added that he does "try to ensure each week that there is a decent male-female spread in terms both of the authors we cover and the people we get to review them".

Subject to these warnings, which must be carefully borne in mind, a general sketch of the history of aesthetics may be given, to provide a preliminary orientation, without running the risk of being understood in an unduly rigid and simplificatory manner.

Some practitioners subordinate evidence to personal belief or preference, just as some subordinate the human art of medicine to unduly rigid interpretations of science applied to the uncertainties of clinical care.

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Still, as the numbers fall, Albany's three most powerful leaders -- the governor, Mr. Bruno, and the Democratic Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver -- say the basic sentencing grid of the laws remains fundamentally flawed, unduly harsh and rigid.

Why so long?" Gov. George E. Pataki and Democrats in the Assembly have long agreed that the 29-year-old laws are unduly harsh and rigid, imposing longer minimum mandatory sentences for some first-time, nonviolent drug offenses than for rape and manslaughter.

These international comparisons also suggest how the UK's approach to health in this context has been unduly narrow and rigid.

It is unduly bureaucratic, inflexible and heartless.

Unduly targeted?

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