By contrast, countries with rigid exchange rate regimes are being tested more severely.

LONDON Few debates are more rote and more ideologically rigid than those concerning economic growth and economic justice.

Military discipline is literally rigid.

More importantly, even the regulators themselves have ceased to believe in obsolete and rigid doctrines.

But it is more likely that the regime is too rigid and too blinkered to act.

This does not mean imposing rigid inflation targets.

Her rigid tail was outstretched, only its very tip twitching.

Tom's father is very dogmatic and rigid in his views.

You mix them together and they make a rigid double helix.

It kills creativity and lead to a rigid and distorted market.

More importantly, Ahn knows how to talk to people who are frustrated by South Korea s rigid economy and business environment, particularly South Korean youth.

Rigid timetables that history suggests would not be met should be eschewed.

But he has transformed into a nice, good natured urchin who amuses the children much more than that old Bishop that is perhaps too rigid.

This ossification was driven by the rigid, conservative and gerontocratic nature of governance.

Our visual systems evolved in an environment that contained (mostly) rigid moving objects.

Their scent came to her more and more pungently, more and more distinctly, and all at once it became quite clear to her that one of them was here behind a hummock, five steps in front. She stopped and her whole body grew rigid.

There's no other country in the world with such rigid restriction of the beer market, unpredictable introduction of more and more new irrational bans that are supposedly founded on a battle against alcohol abuse.

Rigid rules and distant policymakers merely suffocate the animal spirits of the business class.

Cubans are in the end consigned to hold fast to rigid and impossible schemes.

After all, confrontations like this are not unusual in Latin America's rigid presidential systems.

But demilitarization, the deployment of international forces, and rigid security arrangements could offer an answer.

No strong social democratic party in Czechoslovakia could emerge from the rigid Czechoslovak Communist Party.

The latter did not draw back from her but her face retained its rigid expression.

Working life needs to be lengthened, public pensions are often too generous, labor markets too rigid.

The efforts of Kan s government are obviously hampered by a rigid and much fragmented bureaucratic infrastructure.

For almost 40 years, that era s Western feminist critique of rigid sex role stereotyping has prevailed.

Working life needs to be lengthened, public pensions are often too generous, labor markets too rigid.

In the American Iranian equation it was the US, not Iran, that conducted rigid ideological diplomacy.

Indeed, European firms, probably in a response to rigid labor markets, have for at least twenty years been using technologies that are much more capital intensive than that of US firms.

The controls will become more rigid and in addition, if you are caught, you will have to repay any non legitimate benefit received, warned Xavier Bertrand on RTL on Sunday 13 November.

True, the US has been home to a rigid, albeit comparably fluid, class structure ever since its founding.

Rather than attempting to work within Vietnam's rigid state run media environment, Minh Man published her photographs online.

With regard to parliament, there is no need to follow Lebanon s rigid apportionment of seats according to confessional identity.

These qualities simply don't exist in Russia's Sovietized military organizations, with their rigid hierarchies and culture of blind conformity.

Clearly, motion was an essential feature. Our visual systems evolved in an environment that contained (mostly) rigid moving objects.

The al Saud religious alliance with the Wahhabis and the latter's control of a rigid religious educational system must change.

High tax rates on labor together with rigid regulation of hiring and firing make employers extremely reluctant to recruit workers.

Such legislation must also have rigid compliance standards that are reviewed and enforced by the state s electoral authorities and courts.

Rigid, top down uniformity is essential in the specification of weights and measures and the issuance of currency and coin.

She blushed, grew pale, then blushed again, and quite rigid, with only her lips quivering slightly, sat waiting for him.

When she had finished speaking she sighed, and all at once her face assumed a stern expression and became rigid.

Such a combination would force the ECB to be even more rigid in an economy where the employed and their representatives (trade unions) are preoccupied exclusively with protecting existing jobs and excluding outsiders, i.e. the unemployed.

First, rigid rules that wipe out shareholders and penalize long term creditors are a clear deterrent from bankers point of view.

A second explanation is that Japan s economic structure became rigid because vested interests, especially in construction and services, prevented structural changes.

It is politicised and demands rigid respect of sharia, whilst its militants engage in a struggle with the impious central government.