But in Norway, where pop music tastes are less rigid, he's a pop star.
Now we have neo-modernism which embraces a less rigid, more emotive expression of modernist.
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That, plus a less rigid, more entrepreneurial economy, may help this marginalized demographic succeed.
Others have less rigid currencies but still intervene to stem what they regard as excessive upward pressure.
Wages are also likely to be less rigid in short-term jobs, where workers do not become attached to their firm.
Further, it pursued a much less rigid monetary policy than New Zealand.
Doctors and mothers, though, have been less rigid, often pre-scheduling induced deliveries a week or even two weeks ahead of the 39-week mark.
"Laws covering employment and particularly discrimination tend to be less rigid in Asia, " agrees Tom Ballantyne, aviation expert and chief correspondent for Hong Kong-based "Orient Aviation" magazine.
Instead, the FCC should take a less intrusive, less rigid approach that will still allow it to deal with any real anticompetitive abuses that cause consumer harm.
Ideally, he would want to transform the EU into something much better than what it is today: less rigid and bureaucratic, more competitive, democratic and open to the world.
Simon Kneen, creative director of Banana Republic, says the retailer also used a lighter fusable, or adhesive, in the collars to make them less rigid, trying to achieve collar "magic, " Mr. Kneen says.
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Institutional resistance to change is less rigid than it was, with more doctors and specialist nurses accepting the need for concentration of expertise and services, rather than emphasising the numbers of hospitals and beds.
Jerry Wooters, an easygoing womanizer who happens to be sleeping with Mickey Cohen's girl (Emma Stone doing a very passable Bacall), and whose less rigid approach to the job is meant to color our admiration for O'Mara's righteousness.
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It is hard to see how the 11.3% of the German workforce who are out of work, measured by the latest unadjusted figures, benefit from trade-union opposition to the idea of more flexible working patterns and less rigid job protection.
Centre for Economic Policy Research academics, led by David Begg, have suggested that the pact should be made less rigid, with an independent body of experts deciding whether a country's deficit was due to recession or structural factors such as overspending on the pensions system.
Alexandra Meissnitzer, a former Austrian World Cup champion said Austrians now envy the less-rigid U.S. approach.
However, making such a rigid pronouncement is less helpful than coming up with guidelines for how to reasonably shop.
A. Traditionally, business in China is bound by handshakes and verbal agreements. (In the U.S., however, ) Chinese companies must provide written documentation of issues in order to comply with the law, which Chinese businessmen may find too rigid compared to their own traditional and less formal methods of doing business.
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However, the creatures' wing membranes were not rigid or strong enough to support the device, and it also made them less aerodynamic.
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By exporting jobs, the U.S. has outsourced the less scalable and more linear components of production, assigning them to the citizens of more mathematical and culturally rigid states, who are happy to be paid by the hour to work on other people's ideas.
Compared with El Salvador, not only is Ecuador's economy less closely linked to that of the United States but its inflation rate is higher, its labour market more rigid, and its economy still unreformed.
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