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

Such a system is operationally rigid, politically closed, and morally illegitimate.

But it's rigid.

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

The Brahman priests stood at the pinnacle of a rigid social hierarchy a sacred system of caste.

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

If you're sitting in a hard chair on a rigid surface, you'll be more rigid.

It was also important to avoid a system that was overly complex, too rigid, too cumbersome or too costly.

It's very flat, kind of rigid.

The stability of the international financial system today depends on the willingness of countries with rigid exchange rates to allow greater flexibility.

Because triangles are the only rigid structures.

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

The Tatmadaw Government abolished the single party socialist system as well as the rigid centralized economy and embarked on instituting reforms for a multiparty democratic system and a market oriented economy.

We can put nuclear technologies under rigid international control.

And every step is very rigid and very deliberate.

Very kind of you to buy my rigid grain

The New York Times has very rigid policies about that.

They stop being reasonably rigid, but they keep splitting off.

Rigid as it was, with an extensive welfare system and an over regulated labor market, Germany was unable to react to these shocks and ran into trouble.

Finally, it is necessary to pursue integration and coordination within the United Nations system and with outside actors through effective and efficient means rather than through rigid structures.

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

Because strangers are part of a world of really rigid boundaries.

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

of which either the secondary or the outer packaging shall be rigid.

On the down side they're close minded, controlling, rigid, stubborn and moralistic.

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

2. From 1944 to 1990, Albania followed a rigid Stalinist form of Communism.

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

Their attitude appeared to be rigid and governed by military, rather than diplomatic, considerations.

And then from the trachea and the trachea is actually a reasonably rigid structure.

And they also have cartilage, so they're fairly rigid, but the bronchi keep splitting.

And when the bronchi no longer have cartilage around them, they're no longer rigid.

The double bonds in these molecules have a kind of weird property they're rigid.

Let's say that this right here is rigid it's some kind of metal structure.

The American space agency NASA began testing in various flexible and semi rigid configurations of this Rogallo wing in 1957 in order to use it as a recovery system for the Gemini space capsules.

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

(g) Rigid packagings specified in packing instructions P621, IBC620 or LP621 may also be used.

Eligibility criteria should be less rigid so that a larger number of countries could benefit.

That fixed behavior which is rigid and stereotyped and ends up with a meal changes.

We should therefore not be too rigid and should use our imagination to explore new ways of making the Council more representative at the same time, we should avoid creating overly rigid and inflexible categories of members.

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.