Word: rigidness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Students in the past had criticized the OIP for being too rigid in its approval of programs, and five to 10 more programs were added to the list of accredited options this year. But Edwards said she thinks the quality, not quantity, of the programs...
...distorted Wahhabism to give a false legitimacy to their militancy? In his book on Islam in Saudi Arabia, Stephen Schwartz suggests that where Wahhabism is the official creed, there must be a terrorist state. Many religious historians and sociologists, however, see a more subtle picture: a faith founded on rigid and deeply intolerant tenets that in principle falls somewhere short of advocating terrorism. And though a recent murderous mutation may be ascendant in many Saudi mosques, it does not yet represent the ideology of the country's entire clerical establishment...
...face of characterizations like these, we should remind ourselves that neither gay marriage nor homosexuality hurts anyone. They are independent, private choices that pose a threat only to a set of rigid values which disregard basic freedoms and principles, including equality, tolerance and privacy...
...status: "Because history isn't easy to overcome. I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, and nothing was ever going to change that." Hosseini deftly turns Amir's struggle with race into a parable for Afghanistan. Amir's prejudices contribute to his downfall, much as the Afghans' rigid adherence to tribalism led to the country's implosion after the Soviet withdrawal...
...after nearly 20 years of working at Harvard according to a rigid schedule, Hewitt has to re-budget her own time in the face of a new lifestyle...