Rigid Sentence Examples

Her frame was rigid, the table empty.

His body went rigid, and confusion crossed his features.

New Mexico (then including the present Arizona) and Utah were organized without any prohibition of slavery (each being left free to decide for or against, on admission to statehood), and a rigid fugitive slave law was enacted; these were concessions to the South.

Sirian's coldness had never struck her as anything but rigid discipline and cool thinking.

She'd never learned to lie; in fact, she would never dare lie to Mr. Tim, not with his rigid sense of integrity.

On the way home Alex was unusually quiet, his lips a thin line and his jaw rigid.

Fasts are long and rigid.

There is a corresponding kinematic peculiarity, in that the connection is now not strictly rigid, an infinitely small relative displacement being possible.

It reflects rather excessively high and excessively rigid pay costs.

In other words, if the system (considered as rigid) be made to turn about till the first factor coincides with i and the second with j, the product will coincide with k.

A frame of n joints and vi 3 bars may of course fail to be rigid owing to some parts being over-stiff whilst others are deformable; in such a case it will be found that the statical equations, apart from the thre identical relations imposed by the equilibrium of the extraneous forces, are not all independent but are equivalent to less thar 2,13 relations.

The principle can of course be extended to any system of particles or rigid bodies, connected together in any, way, provided we take into account the internal stresses, or reactions, between the various parts.

A general criterion for the case of a rigid body movable in two dimensions, with one degree of freedom, can be obtained as follows.

In particular, in the case of a frame which is just rigid, the principle enables us to find the stress in any one bar independently of the rest.

We have seen that the stresses produced by an equilibrating system of extraneous forces in a frame which is just rigid, according to the criterion of 6, are in general uniquely determinate; in particular, when there are no extraneous forces the bars are in general free from stress.

We may note that a frame of n joints which is just rigid must have 3116 bars; and that the stresses produced in such a frame by a given system of extraneous forces in equilibrium are statically determinate, subject to the exception of critical forms.

In the case of a rigid body we must suppose that those forces adjust themselves so as to preserve the mutual distances of the various particles unaltered.

It is to be noticed that the preceding statements are not intended to be restricted to rigid bodies; they are assumed to hold for all material systems whatever.

The increase of the kinetic energy of a rigid body in any interval of time is equal to the work done by the extraneous forces acting on the body.

Proceeding to the general motion of a rigid body in two dimensions we may take as the three co-ordinates of the body the rectangular Cartesian co-ordinates x, y of the mass-centre G and the angle C through which the body has turned from some standard position.

The equation of energy for a rigid body has already been stated (in effect) as a corollary from fundamental assumptions.

The motion of a rigid body in the most general case may be specified by means of the component velocities u, v, w of any point 0 of it which is taken as base, and the component angular velocities p, q, r.

Moving A xes of ReferenceFor the more general treatment of the kinetics of a rigid body it is usually convenient to adopt a system of moving axes.

The moving axes Ox, Oy, 01 form a rigid frame of reference whose motion at time t may be specified by the three component angular velocities p, q, r.

If we now apply them to the case of a rigid body moving about a fixed point 0, and make Ox, Oy, Oz coincide with the principal axes of inertia at 0, we have X, u, v=Ap, Bq, Cr, whence A (B C) qr = L,

Velocity Ratio of Components of Motion.As the distance between any two points in a rigid body is invariable, the projections of their velocities upon the line joining them must be equal.

And from this, and from the property of a rigid body, already stated in 29, it follows, that the components along a is ne of connection of all the points traversed by that line, whether -in the driver or in the follower, are equal; and consequently, that the velocities of any pair of points traversed by a line of connection are to each other inversely as the cosines, or directly as the secants, of the angles made by the paths of those points with the line of connection.

The link by which they are connected is a rigid rod or bar, which may be straight or of any other figure; the straight figure being the most favorable to strength, is always used when there is no special reason to the contrary.

Comparative Motion of Connected Points.As the link is a rigid body, it is obvious that its action in communicating motion may be determined by finding the comparative motion of the connected points, and this is often the -most convenient method of proceeding.

A kinematic link of the simplest form is made by joining up the halves of two kinematic pairs by means of a rigid link.

Thus if A1B1 represent a turning pair, and A5B1 a second turning pair, the rigid link formed by joining Bl to B2 is a kinematic link.

If B atops rolling, then the two cylinders continue to move as though they were parts of a rigid body.

The mode of distribution of a force applied to a solid body requires to be considered when its stiffness and strength are treated of; but, in questions respecting the action of a force upon a rigid body considered as a whole, the resultant of the distributed force, determined according to the principles of statics, and considered as acting in a single line and applied at a single point, may, for the occasion, be substituted for the force as really distributed.

It is only certain that at this epoch the fabric of Catholic faith was threatened with various forms of prophetic and Oriental mysticism, symptomatic of a widespread desire to grasp at something simpler, purer and less rigid than Latin theology afforded.

These and other reasons, notably the manufacture of much fictitious wine with the aid of sugar (fortunately stopped by the rigid new wine laws), led to the grave wine crisis, which almost amounted to a revolution in the Midi in the spring and summer of 1907.

It remained for him, however, to submit them to a rigid analysis and reduce them to a logical form.

His theological position was that of a mild and large-hearted orthodoxy, which laid more stress upon Christian experience than upon rigid dogmatic belief.

His Catholicism, however, was of a less rigid type than Gardiner's and Bonner's; he felt something of the force of the national antipathy to foreign influence, whether ecclesiastical or secular, and was always impressed by the necessity of national unity, so far as was possible, in matters of faith.

This block gave a more rigid platen, and at the same time ensured a more equal motion to the screw when actuated by the bar-handle.

Great strength is imparted to the frame, and the type bed is particularly rigid.

A rigid orthodoxy is sustained by means of purblind imitation assisted by no little persecution.

Of other papers in which he dealt with this and kindred branches of physics may be mentioned "Observations with a Rigid Spectroscope," "Heating of a Disc by Rapid Motion in Vacuo," "Thermal Equilibrium in an Enclosure Containing Matter in Visible Motion," and "Internal Radiation in Uniaxal Crystals."

In the 18th century many of the General Baptists gradually adopted the Arian, or, perhaps, the Socinian theory; whilst, on the other hand, the Calvinism of the Particular Baptists in many of the churches became more rigid, and approached or actually became Antinomianism.

As a means of preserving harmony the Philadelphia Confession of Faith, a Calvinistic document, with provision against too rigid a construction, was adopted and a step was thus taken toward harmonizing with the "Regular" Baptists of the Philadelphia type.

In some the rakes are attached to rigid frames, with a reciprocating motion, in others to cross-bars moved by revolving chains.

Knox was even more clearly in this case the chief author, and he had by this time come to desire a much more rigid Presbyterianism than he had sketched in his "Wholesome Counsel" of 1555.

The amount of revenue accruing to the Crown from the whole Reduktion it is impossible to estimate even approximately; but by these means, combined with the most careful management and the most rigid economy, Charles XI.

His eloquence gained him a hearing and a numerous following, including many laymen, but consisting principally of poor ecclesiastics, who formed around him a party characterized by a rigid morality and not unlike the Lombard Patarenes of the 11th century.

The foliage much resembles that of the Scotch fir, but is shorter, denser and more rigid; the cones are smaller but similar in form.

The black pine, P. austriaca, generally now regarded as a variety of P. Laricio, derives its name from the extreme depth of its foliage tints - the sharp, rigid, rather long leaves of a dark green hue giving a sombre aspect to the tree.

It is a straight-growing tree, with grey bark and whorls of horizontal branches giving a cylindro-conical outline; the leaves are short, rigid and glaucous; the cones, oblong and rather pointing upwards, grow only near the top of the tree, and ripen in the second autumn; the seeds are oily like those of P. Pinea, and are eaten both on the Alps and by the inhabitants of Siberia; a fine oil is expressed from them which is used both for food and in lamps, but, like that of the Italian pine, it soon turns rancid.

The substance which determines the form of a column of air is demonstrabl y indifferent for the timbre or quality of tone so long as the sides of the tubes are equally elastic and rigid.

In South Africa there is a rigid and universal application of the principle of registration.

No details of the earlier history of Thebes have been preserved, except that it was governed by a land-holding aristocracy who safeguarded their integrity by rigid statutes about the ownership of property and its transmission.

These again have been connected by links of more or less regularity, so that, if the Baluchistan triangulation lacks the rigid accuracy of a " first class " system, it at least supports good topography on geographical scales.

Two lines in the poem suggest that the satirist, who inveighed with just severity against the worst corruptions of Roman morals, was not too rigid a censor of the morals of his friend.

The tangential pressures which are known to be set up in the earth's crust - either by the contraction of the interior or in some other way - caused the deposits of this sea to be crushed up against the rigid granites and other old rocks of the peninsula and finally led to the whole mass being pushed forward over the edge of the part which did not crumple.

Its chief employment was to lay things bare and sever them from their surroundings, in order that they might be contemplated in their simplicity, with rigid exactness, as objects of thought, apart from the illusion and exaggeration that attends them when presented to sense and imagination.

Even then it remains to give the will that property of rigid infallibility without which we are always liable to err, and this must be effected by the training of the judgment.

No case' of so-called " spontaneous generation " has withstood rigid investigation; but the discussion contributed to more exact ideas as to the ubiquity, minuteness, and high powers of resistance to physical agents of the spores of Schizomycetes, and led to more exact ideas of antiseptic treatments.

His private life and public career were marked by the utmost integrity, and by a rigid austerity which earned him the name of the "iron baron."

Occam was a sincere Franciscan, and believed with his master that salvation was won through rigid imitation of Jesus in His poverty and obedience, and up to his days it had always been possible for Franciscans to follow the rules of their founder within his order.'

In order to meet these peculiarities the travelling organs of aquatic and flying animals (whether they be feet, fins, flippers or wings) are made not of rigid but of elastic materials.

Although the third order of lever is particularly inefficient when the fulcrum is rigid and immobile, it possesses singular advantages when these conditions are reversed, that is, when the fulcrum, as happens with the air, is elastic and yielding.

The natural kite formed by the wing differs from the artificial kite only in this, that the former is capable of being moved in all its parts, and is more or less flexible and elastic, whereas the latter is comparatively rigid.

A rigid wing can never be an effective flying instrument.

This author, distinguished alike as a physiologist, mathematician and mechanician, describes and figures a bird with artificial wings, each of which consists of a rigid rod in front and flexible feathers behind.

If the anterior margins of natural and artificial wings were rigid, it would be impossible to make them vibrate smoothly and continuously.

If a rigid rod, or a wing with a rigid anterior margin, be made to vibrate, the vibration is characterized by an unequal jerky motion, at the end of the down and up strokes, which contrasts strangely with the smooth, steady fanning movement peculiar to natural wings.

Borelli's artificial wing, it will be remembered, consists of a rigid rod in front and a flexible sail behind.

In his theology of nature he describes a schematic wing as consisting of a rigid ribbing in front, and a flexible sail behind.

He describes two artificial wings, the one composed of a rigid rod and sail - the rod representing the stiff anterior margin of the wing; the sail, which is made of paper bordered with cardboard, the flexible posterior margin.

The other wing consists of a rigid nervure in front and behind of thin parchment which supports fine rods of steel.

On the anterior margin the extended nervures make it rigid, while behind it is fine and flexible.

During the vigorous depression of the wing, the nervure has the power of remaining rigid, whereas the flexible portion, being pushed in an upward direction on account of the resistance it experiences from the air, assumes an oblique position which causes the upper surface of the wing to look forwards."

All the models referred to (Cayley's excepted') were provided with rigid screws.

In 1872 Penaud discarded the rigid screws in favour of elastic ones, as Pettigrew had done some years before.

De Villeneuve made the wings of his artificial bat conical in shape and comparatively rigid.

They were all constructed on a common principle, and were provided with extensive flying surfaces in the shape of rigid aeroplanes inclined at an upward angle to the horizon, and more or less fixed on the plan advocated by Henson.

The backbone was a light but very rigid tube of aluminium steel, 15 ft.

Nardus stricta (matweed), found on heaths and dry pastures, is a small perennial with slender rigid stem and leaves, it is a useless grass, crowding out better sorts.

The Indian government failed to take sufficient account of the social and religious feelings of their native soldiers, whilst a rigid insistence on the principle of seniority had greatly diminished the efficiency of the British regimental officers.

It must not only be strong enough to sustain all possible vertical loads, but it must be sufficiently rigid to resist without deformation or weakening all lateral disturbing forces, the principal of which are the pressure of wind, the possible sway of moving crowds or moving machinery, and the vibration of the earth from the passage of loaded vans and trolleys, and slight earthquakes which at times visit almost all localities.

In buildings wide in proportion to their height it is the ordinary practice to make the floors sufficiently rigid to transfer the lateral strains to the walls, and to brace the wall framings to resist them.

In cases in which the lateral rigidity of the floors is depended upon to transfer the horizontal strains to the exterior walls which are framed to resist them, no form of floor construction should be used which is not laterally strong and rigid.

The utter exclusion of Whigs as well as Dissenters from office, the remodelling of the army, the imposition of the most rigid restraints on the heir to the throne - such were the measures which, by recommending, Swift tacitly admitted to be necessary to the triumph of his party.

The secret of success, here as elsewhere, is the writer's marvellous imperturbability in paradox, his teeming imagination and his rigid logic. Grant his premises, and all the rest follows; his world may be turned topsy-turvy, but the relative situation of its contents is unchanged.

The worst that can be laid to his charge is that he had a great liking for some diversions, quite harmless in themselves, but condemned by the rigid precisians among whom he lived, and for whose opinion he had a great respect.

In the 6th century, his statues of stone were naked, stiff and rigid in attitude, shoulders square, limbs strong and broad, hair falling down the back.

Between 1754 and 1764 he published a series of theological treatises, their main tendency being to modify the rigid scholastic system by an appeal to the Fathers, notably Augustine; from 1759 to 1762 he travelled in Germany, Italy and France, mainly with a view to examining the collections of documents in the various monastic libraries.

He afterwards spent a year in Geneva, and was powerfully influenced by the strict moral life and rigid ecclesiastical discipline prevalent there, and also by the preaching and the piety of the Waldensian professor, Antoine Leger, and the converted Jesuit preacher, Jean de Labadie.

Benjamin (American Machinist, 1898) on castiron pulleys loaded by a belt to imitate the conditions in practice led him to the conclusion that the rim is usually not sufficiently rigid to load the arms equally, and that the ends of the arms are subjected to bending movements of opposite sign, that at the nave being almost invariably the greater.

But the result of a rigid application of this principle would be that the calculation of the cost of 3 1B of tea at 2s.

The rigid conservatism that resulted from this attitude served, indeed, a useful purpose in giving weight to Castlereaghs counsels in the European concert; for Metternich at least, wholly occupied with propping up mouldering institutions, could not have worked harmoniously with a minister suspected of an itch for reform.

Hence any region of space enclosed by a rigid boundary can be easily filled with a fluid, which then takes the form of the bounding surface at every point of it.

When Leo the Great became pope in 440, a period of more rigid uniformity began.

During even the least rigid of these the use of flesh and lacticinia is strictly forbidden; fish, oil and wine are occasionally conceded, but not before two o'clock in the afternoon.

Another American influence, potent in reducing the rigid though limited supernaturalism of Belsham and his successors, was that of Theodore Parker (1810-1860).

While favouring sacerdotal celibacy the council laid rather rigid restrictions on monasticism.

Another famous statue is one from Gabii, in which she is finishing her toilet and fastening the chlamys over her tunic. In older times her figure is fuller and stronger, and the clothing more complete; certain statues discovered at Delos, imitated from wooden models (oava), are supposed to represent Artemis; they are described as stiff and rigid, the limbs as it were glued to the body without life or movement, garments closely fitting, the folds of which fall in symmetrical parallel lines.

He stood aloof from parties and had no rigid principles, but held views closely resembling those of Narbonne.

Moreover, many of the arguments by which the position of rigid libertarians of the older school has been proved untenable.

Thus, for example, the anti-secular tendencies of the new creed, to which Tertullian (160-220) gave violent and rigid expression, were exaggerated in the Montanist heresy which he ultimately joined; on the other hand, Clement of Alexandria, in opposition to the general tone of his age, maintained the value of pagan philosophy for the development of Christian faith into true knowledge (Gnosis), and the value of the natural development of man through marriage for the normal perfecting of the Christian life.

A corporation commission of three members, elected for a term of six years, is intrusted with the necessary powers for a rigid control of public service corporations.

A state dispensary system for the sale of intoxicating liquors was authorized by the constitution, but the popular vote in 1908 was unfavourable to the continuance of the system, the sentiment seeming to be for rigid prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors.

His decision to accept episcopal orders led to difficulties with his family, especially with his mother, who held rigid Presbyterian views.

We are also told that he administered rigid and impartial justice and dispensed royal hospitality.

In the halls of the kings the position of each person's bed and seat, and the portion of meat which he was entitled to receive from the distributor, were regulated according to a rigid rule of precedence.

The principle of autocracy triumphed everywhere over the remnants of local or provincial authority, in the sphere of industry as in that of administration; while the gild system became much more rigid.

While retaining the principles of feudal recruiting, he had endeavoured to establish a system of rigid discipline among his troops, which he had strengthened by taking into his pay foreign mercenaries, particularly Englishmen and Italians, and by developing his artillery.

Its foundation was the desire for self-knowledge and truth, untrammelled by the rigid bonds of any particular system.

And on the 18th the resignations were announced, not only of the more rigid freetraders in the cabinet, Mr Ritchie and Lord George Hamilton, but also of Mr Chamberlain.

He was a great soldier and a rigid but just disciplinarian.

In deriving a period of 305 days the earth is regarded as an absolutely rigid body, and no account is taken either of its elasticity or of the mobility of the ocean.

Thus this small flexibility is even greater than that necessary to the reconciliation of observation with theory, and the earth is shown to be more rigid than steel - a conclusion long since announced by Kelvin for other reasons.

It is impossible to give a rigid botanical definition of the term " flower."

In the Mennonite church they represent the rigid, conservative party, as opposed to the Galenists, who inclined towards the Arminian latitudinarianism and admitted into their community all those who led a virtuous life, whatever their doctrinal tendencies.

Some historians, in their zeal for rigid classification, have regarded the Fraticelli as a distinct sect, and have attempted to discover its dogmas and its founder.

Owing to the care which he lavished upon the proper maintenance of the army, Nicephorus was compelled to exercise rigid economy in other departments.

As a lecturer, Kant avoided altogether that rigid style in which his books were written.

Brought up in the bigoted and chilling atmosphere of the Piedmontese court, he received a rigid military and religious training, but little intellectual education.

Maybe he wasn't the kind of man who would commit or put any woman above his rigid sense of duty.

Tense and rigid, he was watching her with no small amount of emotion in his features.

The demon stopped, rigid enough Gabriel knew it wouldn't take much more to make him snap.

While she could never fully understand what it was to have the weight of a planet on her shoulders for fifteen years, her resentment toward A'Ran's rigid sense of duty began to thaw as Evelyn went on.

Focusing hard on not letting him affect her, she continued her game of seduction, teasing him with looks, touches, whispers, until Darian's body was rigid and his turmoil had melted into lust intense enough to make his eyes glow.

Her hands were bound by rigid metal fetters connected by a chain to a leather belt around her waist.

Satisfied, she returned to the living area and plopped down on a couch too rigid to be comfortable.

The same remarks apply to a society that is caste-based, or has any other rigid hierarchy to social status.

In some sense too rigid adherence to the " own doctor " principal may not be good.

But it was Count von Zeppelin's rigid airship of 1900 that proved air travel was possible.

The vast majority of simulations of physical systems, including the movement of rigid bodies under forces, are carried out using vector algebra.

Labor are supposed to be the bossy ones --- the ones with a rigid blueprint for society --- not the Tories.

The Stortz ventilating bronchoscope is the most commonly used rigid bronchoscope in most centers.

A 3.5 rigid bronchoscope was introduced into the trachea.

A rigid code of ethics was established to improve the caliber of Shaolin boxers.

Thread a short bamboo cane through the wire at the back to keep the whole thing rigid.

Hinduism has a rigid caste system which often results in pressure on the young to ensure they don't marry into the wrong caste system which often results in pressure on the young to ensure they don't marry into the wrong caste.

This, of course, produces a rigid axlebox finescale chassis.

Most of the fantastically talented people I know were disasters within the rigid confines of schools and universities.

Such a mutation could for example be in one of the DNA-binding helices introducing a kink in a normally straight and rigid helical conformation.

Labor are effectively imposing a blueprint of rigid conformity on parish councils.

There are no rigid meal plans, no low-fat recipes, no carb and calorie counters.

I used two male-male couplers here plus a short length of semi rigid coax to reach the bulkhead mounted SMA output socket.

A more rigid twelve point crampon is better for winter climbing.

Virtue ethics require a less mechanistic and rigid enforcement of company credos and must empower individuals to a higher degree of ethical understanding.

Further data are provided on basic elements, such as springs, dampers and rigid bodies.

Changing education and training of professionals, with less rigid demarcation between the professions and some elements of generic training (25 ).

I have found a vapor bath very efficacious in releasing rigid fibers.

The rigid distinction among science and history of science is based on the idea of the latter as pure literary erudition.

Prawns and shrimps have a rigid exoskeleton that protects the soft internal structure.

In normal ferritin, a rigid protein shell surrounds an 8 nm diameter cavity, part-filled with non-magnetic ferrihydrite.

The problem of rigid ferrules has been overcome by using flexible ferrules that Pilley and Lawes developed over 30 years ago and is patented.

Business Development Managers " NatWest knows entrepreneurial flair needs freedom, not rigid process.

It reviews the principles of statics and kinematics and applying them to the approximate analysis of pin and rigid jointed frames.

The laws of nature are thus not ' laws ' in the rigid, prescriptive sense, but inductive generalizations.

The tops or backs of all forward facing seats must be fitted with a rigid handhold.

Sam had a go at weaving with a rigid heddle.

At times perhaps he was a little rigid -- and some slight hesitancy in the exposed woodwind writing will surely lessen with familiarity.

Instead of the aliens listed above, choose plants such as spiked water milfoil, rigid hornwort and water starwort as oxygenating plants.

The small horsetail that looks like a soft baby pine tree is preferred over the rigid, leafless kind.

Now the rigid inflatable will enjoy a new lease of life with the sailing club.

These include oesophageal stents - either rigid plastic or self-expanding metallic stents (SEMS) and local tumor ablative techniques such as laser therapy.

The range meets the varied applications of the flexible, integral skin, RIM and rigid polyurethane [PU] foam markets.

The actors do a commendable job with what they're given, but the delivery on occasion is fairly rigid.

Focus Groups have proved popular with members who found the Regional Committee system too rigid.

The engine unit is exceptionally rigid, with vibration and noise reduced as much as possible.

It provides an extremely rigid 700 x 600 mm platform.

It can be used to keep bones rigid during a time of healing, help with movement, correct a deformity or relieve pain.

In the audience, Philip Seymour Hoffman is already bored rigid.

My fear permeated through everyone in the room, they sat rigid in anticipation.

The culture in schools must become less rigid, he said.

Yet they are all doing it and I would actually look sillier if I stood there rigid as a statue.

His eyes moved slowly, his body remaining rigid as tho he were petrified.

If you contract your muscles, your body may stay rigid in places and not join the wave.

Current status The first documented case of glyphosate resistance was reported in 1996 involving rigid ryegrass in Australia.

He was too shrewd a student of his fellow- men to remain long content with rigid formulae of conduct.

We have used solid-state NMR extensively to estimate how rigid any polymer is within the composite structure of the cell wall.

Rigid adherence by the parties to their past positions will simply continue the stalemate which has already lasted too long.

The temporary hydraulic jacks which had been used to keep the piles rigid were replaced by steel stanchions.

This section is extremely rigid and is made of extra high-strength steel.

Bring soft bags as we do not have stowage for rigid bags or suit cases.

Having removed the first rigid subcomponent the segmentation algorithm was run again with the remaining range data, this time taking 74 seconds.

The whole body picks up on the messages from the fingers, becoming tense, rigid, fixated.

Safeglass, a styrene based thermoplastic, is more rigid than PET, even sounds like glass but is much safer than glass.

The ECB indicates that rates will continue to rise, but does not suggest it has a rigid timetable for the moves.

Rigid, mechanical or hydraulic folding units with a choice of 7mm or 8mm tines are available.

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An EU of six might have got by with the bloc model of rigid uniformity.

Constructed with an innovative blend of resin and high density rigid urethane, these trays are approximately 40% lighter than stone trays.

The tool kit includes a 50mm (2 inch) long mini bullet vibrator with five soft, rigid, jelly sleeves.

The third pair of driving wheels had no flanges, to assist the long rigid wheelbase get round sharp curves.

These kitchen workhorses are made from a special heavy duty rigid alloy that won't distort in the oven.

His main principle was a rigid unitarianism which denied the independent existence of the attributes of God, as being incompatible with his unity, and therefore a polytheistic idea.

At first a part of the population were content with Austrian rule, which provided an honest and efficient administration; but the rigid system of centralization which, while allowing the semblance of local autonomy, sent every minute question for settlement to Vienna; the severe police metho4ls; the bureaucracy, in which the best appointments were usually conferred on Germans or Slays wholly dependent on Vienna, proved galling to the people, and in view of the growing disnffection the country was turned into a vast armed camp. In Modena Duke Francis proved a cruel tyrant.

The medusae of this order are characterized by the tough, rigid consistence of the umbrella, due partly to the dense nature of the mesogloea, partly to the presence of a marginal rim of chondral tissue, consisting of thickened ectoderm containing great numbers of nematocysts, and forming, as it were, a cushion-tyre supporting the edge of the umbrella.

From consideration of the rigid triangular frame described above, it is clear that the " overturning " force acts horizontally from the centre of gra'Vity, and that the length of its lever arm is, at any instant, the vertical distance from the centre of gravity to the level of the outer rail.

If then by the contraction of the earth's interior the outer crust were forced to accommodate itself to a smaller nucleus, the central softer belt would yield by crumpling; the more rigid masses to the north and south, if they gave way at all, would yield by faulting.

Europe persistently refused to assist the republic to preserve a trade in which she had established a rigid monopoly, and Venice was left to fight the Turk single-handed.

A rigid adherence to the boundary authorized in 1787, however, would have resulted in the loss to Ohio of 470 sq.

In Laconia Aristodemus (or his twin sons) effected a rigid military occupation which eventually embraced the whole district, and permitted (a) the colonization of Melos, Thera and parts of Crete (before 800 B.C.), (b) the reconquest and annexation of Messenia (about 750 B.C.), (c) a settlement of half-breed Spartans at Tarentum in south Italy, 700 B.C. In Argos and other cities of Argolis the descendants of the Achaean chiefs were taken into political partnership, but a tradition of race-feud lasted till historic times.

The Cretan cities, irrespective of origin, exhibit serfage, militant aristocracy, rigid martial discipline of all citizens, and other marked analogies with Sparta; but the Asiatic Dorians and the other Dorian colonies do not differ appreciably in their social and political history from their Ionian and Aeolic neighbours.

After the death of his father, who was a rigid Dissenter, his mother, left in poverty, lived with some Roman Catholic families.

The more dismal, the more savage, the more hopeless a spot appeared, the more did it please their rigid mood.

These reacted upon this institutional religion, which readapted and reinterpreted itself from time to time, and when they did not help to build up another theology (as in Christianity), they ended by assuming too rigid and unprogressive a shape (see Qaraites), or, breaking away from long-tried convention, became a mysticism with mixed results (see Kabbalah).

A plane frame of n joints which is just rigid (as regards deformation in its own plane) has 2n3 bars, for if one bar be held fixed the 2(n2) co-ordinates of the remaining fl2 joints must just be determined by the lengths of the remaining bars.

If the small displacements of a rigid body be subject to one constraint, e.g.

Fenelon was feeling his way away from the rigid standards of Boileau to "a Sublime so simple and familiar that all may understand it."

His writings, which are distinguished by clarity, vigour and rigid reasoning, rather than by any show of scholarship - in the extent of which, however solid in character Hamilton's might have been, he was surpassed by several of his contemporaries - are in general strikingly empirical in basis.

To be considered thriller and feels that rigid puritan.

The actors do a commendable job with what they 're given, but the delivery on occasion is fairly rigid.

Even after the Fury had killed Jaspers and badly weakened, was fighting Captain Britain, she merely watched, rigid with fear.

Also available for charter is an additional rigid inflatable, so you can take pictures of the barge under sail.

Most seem to be acquiring wider responsibilities in an evolutionary way, rather than by following a rigid hierarchy.

I only use rigid body refinement and there is no TLS refinement in Refmac.

There were rigid demarcations as to what a nurse could or could not do.

Boot camps are military style camps that use rigid authoritative procedures to scare teens straight.

The design opportunities afforded by these kits are fairly rigid, but the advantage is that less time will need to be invested in getting your design to look professional.

Vernon Winfrey was a strict and rigid disciplinarian, but it was exactly the tough love that Oprah needed.

Ariel befriends Bacon's character, Ren, newly arrived from Chicago and not used to such small town ways and its rigid rules.

She even mentioned getting lipolysis before the Oscars, yet when she followed it up saying she was also embarking on a rigid diet regime along with a light English accent and eyeglasses, it was clear she was joking.

By booking a Carnival Cruise Line trip to nowhere, you escape the pressure of sticking to a rigid itinerary.

In addition, a cruise to nowhere is void of rigid itineraries.

Many collars are adjustable, either with a rigid slide buckle or perforated belt-style buckles, allowing owners to adjust the collar's fit as their pet grows.

C. Mariscus is a vigorous native fen plant, 2 to 6 feet high, in flower crowned with dense, close chestnut-colored panicles, sometimes 3 feet in length, the leaves glaucous, rigid, and often 4 feet long.

It is covered from the base almost to the top with long, arching leaves, and in the flowering season is crowned with erect rigid spikes 6 1/2 inches long, so that it resembles an elongated ear of wheat.

S. oregana has smaller rosy flowers; S. incarnata, slender and rigid red spikes; while in S. spicata they are rosy-purple.

Other kinds are natives of the Chilian Andes, and have simple leaves, rigid in texture, and their habit is, as a rule, bushy and not climbing.

Exochorda Alberti - Has larger leaves borne upon stems of stouter and more rigid habit, and of a brighter reddish-brown.

The flowers are like those of Statice, the plants forming cushion-like tufts; the leaves rigid and spiny.

The young trees vary in size of leaf, rate of growth, and in habit-some being dense and rigid, and others freer and more luxuriant.

From ornamental arches to rigid tomato cages, adding a little structure to the garden can improve your yield and your garden's appearance.

It is made up of a pair of rigid stem supports attached to a cantilevered horizontal support cable.

The flexible track is suspended from the ceiling or spaced away from the wall by rigid or adjustable standoffs.

During this time period brooches of mermaids, flower forms and dragons were more common than the rigid lines of a crown.

Haggar Classic Khaki Shorts are made from 100% wrinkle resistant cotton and have a rigid waistband.

These 100% cotton twill shorts have a rigid waistband and come in either flat front or pleated.

While natural snacks are less processed than other snacks, they do not have the same rigid certification process as snacks that are labeled as certified organic do.

For the first three designations on this list, any chemicals used in the manufacturing process must meet some very rigid standards.

If you are a ballroom dancer, the rules for skirts are little more rigid.

If you feel like your arms aren't long enough to be able to read the fine print without glasses, in most cases it's because the lens of your eye has lost its ability to focus because with age it has grown rigid.

Head and facial contours - A nasal or full face mask is rigid in construction and relies on soft silicon nasal cushions to fit tight against your face to form a tight seal.

Rigid screening processes seemed to have nearly eliminated the disease in many African countries, but relaxed measures have led to endemic surges since 1965.

Your sleep may continue to improve as your soft palate becomes more rigid over time, but it may take several months for the Pillar procedure to become fully effective at preventing apnea episodes.

Rigid gas permeable lenses are even more likely to dry out and cause dry eyes.

If you're a rigid gas permeable lens wearer, you're not home-free just because your lenses don't contain water, unfortunately.

Some are designed for soft lenses; others are designed for rigid gas permeable lenses.

Hard contact lenses are made of a rigid plastic and are also called rigid gas permeable lenses.

It is also known as rigid gas permeable contact lens.

This type of lens is more durable than a soft lens and, like the name states, more rigid.

Gas permeable lenses are rigid and hold their shape when blinking, resulting in crisp vision.

If you're a rigid gas-permeable contact lens wearer now, be aware that most special effect contact lenses are typically soft lenses, with the exception of mirrored contact lenses.

The more familiar rigid temples were created by London optician Edward Scarlett.

Hard contact lenses, also known as rigid gas permeable hard contact lenses, are sometimes prescribed because they can provide a clearer view for some prescription types.

A hybrid contact lens combines the perks of rigid gas permeable lenses with those of soft contacts to give you the clear vision of rigid gas permeable lenes and the comfort of soft contacts.

Both soft contact lenses and rigid gas permeable lenses have their advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages of rigid gas permeable lenses include the ability to allow more oxygen to the eye, clearer vision because they maintain their shape regardless of tear content and other factors that can affect the wear of a soft lens.

Rigid gas permeable lenses are not, however, known for their comfort.

There is usually at least an adjustment period when switching from glasses or soft lenses to rigid gas permeable lenses, though some users never feel comfortable wearing them.

In many cases, they are not meant to be worn for as many consecutive hours as rigid gas permeable lenses because they don't always allow proper oxygen flow to the eye.

The hybrid contact lens has the rigid gas permeable center with a soft lens "skirt" extending out past the iris to offer a more comfortable fit.

You get the feel of the soft contact's outer edges with the sharp vision of the rigid gas permeable lens centered over the pupil of the eye.

To care for your hybrid lenses, treat them as you would treat rigid gas permeable or soft lenses.

If you're suffering from discomfort from your rigid gas permeable lenses or less than clear vision from your soft lenses, trying a pair of hybrid contacts may be worth a try.

The wear and care of them are not much different than other types, but they combine the best of the rigid gas permeable and soft lenses.

Still others, such as rigid gas permeable lenses, can be worn for a year.

Also, please keep in mind that rigid gas permeable lenses are usually not available in theatrical styles; almost all of the novelty or theatrical contacts available are soft lenses.

Lens World sells the Bonasse Rigid Gas Permeable/Hard Lens Case in your choice of blue and white or blue and orange.

The design of the smaller, rounder Super Famicom of Japan was used for European versions as well, whereas Americans received a boxier, more rigid looking Super Nintendo.

Wine corks are usually cleaned with compounds that contain these chlorophenols and great lengths are taken to see that this TCA doesn't form…but, it can no matter who rigid the quality control is.

However, external frames are rigid and do not offer the flexibility of internal frames.

Rigid crampons, as suggested by the name, do not move.

Authoritarian parents are rigid in their rules; they expect absolute obedience from the child without any questioning.

For example, some people with multiple sclerosis who experience significant leg weakness find that spasticity makes their legs more rigid, helping them to stand, transfer to a chair or bed, or walk.

Spastic-Refers to a condition in which the muscles are rigid, posture may be abnormal, and fine motor control is impaired.

Splint-A thin piece of rigid or flexible material that is used to restrain, support, or immobilize a part of the body while healing takes place.

They also note whether these patterns are rigid or relatively flexible.

The chief risk in family therapy is the possible unsettling of rigid personality defenses in individuals or relationships that had been fragile before the beginning of therapy.

Rigid gas-permeable (RGP) daily-wear lenses are made of plastic that does not absorb water but allows oxygen to get from the atmosphere to the cornea.

Rigid gas-permeable (RGP) extended-wear lenses are made from plastic that also does not absorb water but is more permeable to oxygen than the plastic used for daily-wear lenses.

Soft lenses are easier to get used to than rigid lenses but are more prone to tears and do not last as long.

The other kind of brace is the underarm brace, which uses rigid plastic to encircle the lower rib cage, abdomen, and hips.

Fusion of the spine makes it rigid and resistant to further curvature.

Clot busters must be administered quickly and properly through several specifically timed intravenous infusions according to a rigid protocol established for each drug and the body weight of each patient.

Since the condition starts in the first trimester of pregnancy, the abnormality is quite well established at birth, and the foot is often very rigid.

They tend to be inflexible, rigid, with inadequate response to the changes and demands of life.

Steel rods are inserted at the time of operation to keep the spine rigid while the bones grow together.

They tend to be inflexible, rigid, and unable to respond to the changes and normal stresses of life and find it very difficult to participate in social activities.

They are relaxed when they hear a calm, happy caregiver and tense and rigid when they hear an angry, frustrated, or frightened one.

Some psychiatrists who take a cognitive approach to mental disorders believe that IED results from rigid beliefs and a tendency to misinterpret other people's behavior in accordance with these beliefs.

Although many clinicians find the criteria too rigid, a hypomanic diagnosis requires a duration of at least four days with at least three of the symptoms indicated for manic episodes (four if mood is irritable and not elevated).

This could lead to the development of rigid thinking and repetitive movements common to the disorder.

A person suspected of having a spinal cord injury should not be moved and treatment of SCI begins with immobilization, commonly achieved by enclosing the cervical spine in a rigid collar and use of rigid backboards.

Rigid gas permeable (RGPs) contact lenses are used to correct myopia.

The symptoms include trembling of the fingers or hands, a shuffling gait, and tight or rigid muscles.

The muscles become rigid for about 30 seconds during the tonic phase of the seizure and alternately contract and relax during the clonic phase, which lasts 30 to 60 seconds.

On the whole, the families of creative children discipline them without rigid restrictions, teaching them respect for values above rules.

Reported problems include obsessive/compulsive behaviors, depression, temper tantrums and violent outbursts, and tendencies to be argumentative, oppositional, rigid, manipulative, possessive, and stubborn.

The former lends itself more easily to the use of diagrams and tango dance step illustrations, because it is a very rigid and formal kind of dance.

The dance was modified into a more rigid and separated dance frame, which would eventually become the "ballroom" or "international" style of tango as it's performed in competitions today.

Since line dancing is so social, you will find those in a line dance class chatting with each other much more than you would see in a more rigid form of dance such as ballet or ballroom.

Some leads love to spin their partners right up off the floor, leaving little room for rigid technique.

Color is certainly important and is used in conjunction with direction and elements, but it should never be used in an effort to activate an element.To believe a bedroom in the north must be painted blue is rigid thinking and incorrect.

Without rigid edges, this energy is able to maintain a constant ebb and flow.

Punk hair styles that involve spikes and rigid mohawks will benefit from this sort of gel.

Messy bobs are also a great casual look, with piecy layers adding texture and fun to the style without being too rigid.

Flatiron your hair to make it ultra-smooth, but be sure to add a little volume at the roots or opt for a few wispy bangs to avoid looking too rigid.

What should be avoided for small children is a rigid curriculum or lesson plan that fosters the idea that learning is a chore and not an interesting treat.

Workdays in Germany are a bit more rigid than in most other countries.

Revisions to this FHA program resulted in changes that made the qualifications a little more rigid.

While different states have varying licensing requirements for mortgage brokers, Texas has very specific and rigid requirements that must be met before a mortgage broker license will be issued.

Construction begins with Speedo's anti-fog lenses, which are set into a rigid frame that is actually molded around them, virtually eliminating any chance that the lenses will flex and distort a swimmer's vision.

Most free card games have a rigid set of rules, but there's no reason you can't make up your own or modify what's already stipulated to make the game more fun or interesting.

I don't even like the idea of a candle making recipe, because that implies that it is rigid and scientific, involving formulas more than fun.

Keep a rigid letter writing system in place so you can keep track of how much money is asked for, and in what manner and time frame.

Additional plies result in a stronger and more rigid needle.

Unlike more rigid metals, silver can even be fashioned into a real knot, with strands of metal actually tying about one another.

This is a very accurate tool as the rings are rigid and there is no opportunity for the rings to get bent out of shape.

Your schedule doesn't have to be as rigid as what you'd find in a typical office job, but it does need to allow you enough time to accomplish everything that has to be done.