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How to use the word rigid in a Sentence? Page #2

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No matter how fast blood rushes in, it leaves just as fast, so those patients can never achieve fully rigid erections.

Peter Stahl

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

My trip to the Mergui enlarged my appreciation for moving out of more commercial, westernized tourist areas elsewhere in Southeast Asia, one feels like an explorer on several levels. Viewing new landscapes each day, going on a RIB (rigid-hulled inflatable boat) to explore a beach, or taking a kayak by oneself to quietly drift off provides you with a new perspective to one's sense of the place.

Charles Robba

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Private prisons have the same standards and guidelines as federal prisons, there is a lot more accountability for private prisons. Union workers in public prisons provide a lot of leniency for their employees. In a private prison, a majority are not unionized, so the oversight is very rigid.

Gerges Scott

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We do not want to cut back worker protection, but we need to leave people the freedom to decide what hours they work, extremely strenuous physical labor, which requires rigid rules - we don't have that to the same extent as we used to.

Wilfried Porth

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Be tough and resilient about your goals, targets, dreams, visions and aspirations. For, you've got to be tough and resilient as far as all of the above is concerned. But, take Note: don't be cynical and rigid. Most especially, with regard to your beliefs and outlook (your attitude to life). ~Emeasoba George.

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8 years ago

However, common sense suggests that people who engage in anal intercourse should be advised against introducing rigid or large objects into the rectum as this increases the risk of trauma, they should also be encouraged to treat pain or bleeding as a warning to stop and seek medical evaluation.

William Whitehead

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When you look at those terms, I've noticed men approach porn like they watch TV. They have things they always like to turn to, sometimes people are interested in things more distinct or a little more of a fetish -- but it doesn't take more and more and more. Of course, that's the rule. Some patients have very rigid fantasies that are dark, but that's the exception, not the rule.

Ian Kerner

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Like an eating disorder, this can become really rigid, a person’s need for these supplements, to have to take them at certain times during the day can really start to intrude upon one’s ability to live a life that’s otherwise fulfilling.

Richard Achiro

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There's no question that TI gets a first look at everything but they have a real rigid strategy in terms of what they expect for their return on invested capital. If it doesn't fit that box, they don't acquire it.

Van Hees

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

But just like this paper is unable to present very specific evidence, we also can not give very rigid guidelines, the studies are just not there.

Samuel Dagogo-Jack

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are working to construct a common system which goes beyond the Dublin treaty, which is now obsolete in practice, making the mechanism less rigid and more collaborative.

Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

He really did let us have our own character as a city, at a time when Rome was very rigid.

Cristina Traina

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If we see that Germany remains rigid and wants to blow apart Europe, then we have the obligation to go to Plan B. Plan B is to get funding from another source, it could be the United States at best, it could be Russia, it could be China or other countries.

Panos Kammenos

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

What we want is a deal. But if there is no deal - hopefully (there will be) - and if we see that Germany remains rigid and wants to blow apart Europe, then we have the obligation to go to Plan B. Plan B is to get funding from another source, it could the United States at best, it could be Russia, it could be China or other countries.

Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

“Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives.”-- from Circles and Arcs

Rosy Cole

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9 years ago

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

William Osler

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10 years ago

I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?

Dejan Stojanovic

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11 years ago

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian"

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13 years ago

Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.

Thomas Fuller

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14 years ago

The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creatureBut still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid featureYet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended.

Robert Burns

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

Lawana Blackwell

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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