An environmental psychologist told me, If you're sitting in a hard chair on a rigid surface, you'll be more rigid.

The costs are mounting.

Signs of political instability are mounting.

In America, one can feel the backlash mounting.

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

Second, China s financial system is fragile, and its economic structure rigid.

Time is short, since global problems are mounting rapidly.

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

But at the same time frustration is mounting in Greece.

Agreement today on the diagnosis facilitates mounting a common response.

Of course, Japan s fiscal problems have been mounting for decades.

Deflecting mounting criticism, Bush rejects appeals to boycott the summit.

Evidence that the US recovery will be sustained is mounting.

And that means that China also must reconsider its rigid notion of sovereignty.

Social unrest, whether expressed in blogs or spontaneous demonstrations, is mounting.

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

America s European allies are tiring of the endless battles and mounting casualties.

As we gain experience and expertise we are mounting increasingly ambitious operations.

Under mounting pressure, McCarthy resigned from the post on 5 November 2002.

It is therefore important to obtain accurate intelligence before mounting an attack.

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

So the point here is that not all boys exist within these rigid boundaries of what we think of as boys and girls, and not all girls exist within those rigid boundaries of what we think of as girls.

Alongside the mounting death toll, a massacre is being perpetrated against Syria's heritage.

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

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

The problem, however, is that prices have generally proved much more rigid, declining only in Ireland.

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

These structures are often rigid, quite bureaucratic, dominating by men, and as such, intimidating for women.

To put it simply, a sound management system cannot operate with rigid bureaucratic structures and institutional inflexibilities.

NEW YORK Around the world, protests against soaring food and fuel prices are mounting.

Evidence of either irrational exuberance or market expectations of a bailout is already mounting.

Oskar decides to live apart from Maria and her son Kurt after mounting tensions.

For Palau, and for many other small island developing States, the challenges are mounting.

Customary law is not rigid in that it is made to fit round the demands of global economy.

The other school, by contrast, worried that the existing monetary system was rigid, brittle, and prone to crisis.

Moreover, removing rigid protections without offering alternative, contingent safety nets and judicial redress is a recipe for conflict.

The Security Officer will also be responsible for ensuring that all technology meets rigid security standards before deployment.

Indeed, the application of rigid solutions has contributed rather to a further widening of the gap between countries.

First, mounting an appropriate monetary response is easier when you have a single central bank.

From Egypt to Lebanon to Iran, political passions are mounting, along with a renewed optimism.

And only hard core idealists dismiss altogether the mounting risk of the eurozone s total disintegration.

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.

Saudi Arabia, long one of the Arab world s most rigid societies, now finds itself in a state of flux.

During purely translational motion (motion with no rotation), all points on a rigid body move with the same velocity.