Also, Steuben, who had begun his training with David, felt the school was becoming increasingly rigid and dogmatic.

Real estate agents, mortgage brokers and real estate lawyers say that Manhattan's boards have become increasingly rigid about financial assets.

This is one of the most convincing of all proofs of increasingly rigid discipline on the battlefield.

But within a few years, the response deteriorates and patients become increasingly rigid.

Entrenched hierarchies become increasingly rigid and out of touch with social realities.

The institution of mambo was also used at Zimbabwe, along with an increasingly rigid three-tiered class structure.

Ivan and Martya drifted up too, looking concerned; the colonel looked increasingly rigid, watching his doubtless ordered-to-be-quiet arrest slipping out of his control.

Christianity, born as an announcement of palingenesis, implied a huge social program "which imposed a progressive conceptual enrichment and an increasingly rigid disciplinary organization.

From that time on the obliteration of Curwen's memory became increasingly rigid, extending at last by common consent even to the town records and files of the Gazette.

In recent years the increasingly rigid age division of British society has been underpinned by social security, including pensions, policy.