A site slated for a manufacturing plant, for example, would have to meet less rigid criteria than a site slated for a school.

Tank development took time, and so the sudden appearance of a new tank threat could not be met quickly enough under such rigid criteria.

Instead, the fund should refuse to make loans of any kind to nations that do not meet certain rigid criteria.

To adopt rigid criteria," he said, "would guarantee mistakes involving American interests and American lives.

He picks them according to rigid criteria, acquires them only from other area gruppenfuehrers, and they alone are his personal household staff.

Under Pawson's Rules of Order, all food must meet rigid criteria.

But the opposition parties demand rigid criteria in exchange for the use of public funds.

It's impossible to come up with rigid criteria, and decisions made on a case-by-case basis produce inconsistencies.

While all final designs have to meet rigid criteria for noise, exhaust and fuel consumption, the three concepts look very different.

And many clinicians chafe at the manual's rigid diagnostic criteria.