Sentence examples for was stiff for from inspiring English sources

He said competition was stiff for the seven different awards that were presented.

The victims were appropriately bathed in pathos and bathos, the federal prosecutor's index finger was stiff for days from the pointing and jabbing, defense counsel listlessly begged for mercy, Madoff himself profusely apologized (too little! too late!) and Judge Denny Chin unsheathed his mighty sword of justice skewering the hapless and haggard Madoff with 150 years.

Carlton Masters is the current chairman, and the fund is in arbitration proceedings with a management firm that says it was stiffed for $1.4 million.

But what finally made Ms. Steffen crack was that her family's wedding-banquet hall was stiffed for the bar bill.

Competition is stiff for the most convenient office locations.

Usually the immigrant is considered with the pool of students from abroad, where competition is stiff for both admission and aid.

Because hundreds of security companies already operate in the United States, though, analysts say that competition in the American market will be stiff for Módulo.

So candidates have to dissolve apprehensions already present in the public mind: that Mr. Gore is stiff, for example, or that Mr. Bush is a lightweight.

Penalties can be stiff for noncompliance or inaccuracies.

It is clear that the system (5.2) is stiff for the great difference between the Lyapunov exponents (L_{1}) and (L_{2}) [15].

Not only did the myosin head hang onto the actin filament, but its tail--thought to be stiff for pulling during contraction--stretched a bit.