Word: rigidities
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...know I spent more time with Tudjman than everyone else combined," Galbraith says. "He's a very rigid personality with a sense of his own place. He was convinced that Bosnia should not exist as a country. He showed extreme racism against Bosnian Muslims...
...appointed by the federal government. This gathering, with its unique blend of practicing politicians and people from outside the political process, attracted much more interest than was expected. Politicians, so used to wheeling and dealing, suddenly found themselves having to come to terms with elected delegates who rejected the rigid constraints or parliamentary part politics, and who had come to debate issues, not seek political advantage...
Historians' comments: "Approach to Depression rigid and dogmatic"; "Victim of bad luck...
...Americans, disenchanted with their participation in the Great War, had turned their backs on the world and reverted to isolationism. Rigid neutrality acts denied the President authority to discriminate between aggressor states and their victims and thereby prevented the U.S. from throwing its weight against aggression...
...decent sort--ambitious, a bit rigid and guarded, perhaps not the most likable person around, but smart and honest. The stakes are high in your career; pleasures are morphing into pressures. Then you have what seems like an innocuous conversation, and things change. Someone is playing tricks on you, making your life hell. You are the victim of a long con. Hey, it's only business. The American...