First up, while carbon fiber is strong and light, it also lacks a certain rigidity.
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The structural rigidity of the unibody aluminium body provides acoustic precision for a clear musical experience.
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This is why children with progeria have such issues with bone density and rigidity.
This rigidity has cost Sony, once the darling of the electronics industry, dearly.
Succeeding in the digital economy means embracing antifragility and abandoning stability, resilience, and rigidity.
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One is the rigidity of its exchange-rate peg, and the strength of the dollar.
Noah's extreme rigidity was due to intense muscular exertion in the last minutes of life, Sanchez said.
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But it is Fowler, that supposedly starchy old schoolmaster, who is the most striking opponent of rigidity.
It's being classified as an Ultrabook, yet it still meets the Mil-SPEC 8 standard for rigidity and durability.
And if we object to this treatment, we will be accused of incivility, intolerance, partisanship, and ideological rigidity.
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Patients are diagnosed by four primary symptoms: tremor, rigidity, postural imbalance and the slowing or freezing of voluntary movement.
We need less rigidity, more creativity, more room for work-life balance, she said.
The dominant rigidity of on-premise ERP systems appears to be evaporating with the advent of more flexible cloud-based applications.
Not only is its economy frail, but its labour laws, harking back to the 1970s and 1980s, ensure rigidity.
On the contrary, the tablet's anonymous looks belie a relative lightness and rigidity.
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This kind of rigidity has its flaws, but, in the context of the Newt Romney blur, it is refreshing.
Credit extensions to the poor which intend to do good, often stifle real economic growth because of their rigidity.
This rigidity makes up for the force lost due to shorter calves and also may explain the mysterious discomfort.
Conversion is the point where religious rigidity, Israeli politics and diaspora denominationalism clash.
Children also showed improvement in hearing, skeletal rigidity or cardiovascular changes such as decreased arterial stiffness and improved vessel-wall density.
Its earlier attempts to become a manufacturing and service hub for the region foundered on the rigidity of its bureaucracy.
Their ideological rigidity on immigration reform, marriage equality, reproductive rights, Wall Street reform and numerous other hot-button issues is unpopular.
The similarity in construction affects more than curb weight (3, 000 pounds for the Cayman S) or torsional rigidity (up 40%).
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Sports economist Andrew Zimbalist said every top player who takes himself off the market brings unwanted rigidity to the system.
The body design includes a rigid-mounted battery frame, which helps provide greater body rigidity compared to a conventional compact car.
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U. and its governing body have become, the Lisbon treaty would improve its functionality by increasing rigidity and strengthening the parliament.
Architectural exemplars of the limitations of such an approach stand out in the dullness of Brasilia and the rigidity of Chandigarh.
The biggest was that the Soviet Union was both boastful and secretive, yearning to seem creative while maintaining a stultifying rigidity.
The harsh realities are that Poland is unable to achieve systemic economic reform given the rigidity of Soviet-imposed economic management and infrastructure.
It has the decisiveness of a hierarchy but without its inflexibility, its rigidity and its tendency to demotivate workers and frustrate customers.
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