Web-based international educational software is under development by students at New York University, based on the belief that current educational institutions are too rigid: effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of practice are not predictable or standardized.

" According to Eagleton, " Like almost all diatribes against universalism, Fish's critique of universalism has its own rigid universals: the priority at all times and places of sectoral interests, the permanence of conflict, the a priori status of belief systems, the rhetorical character of truth, the fact that all apparent openness is secretly closure, and the like.

McCloud also writes that Look magazine " asserted that tradition-minded gurus, angrily citing the Bhagavad Gita, say that self-abnegation and suffering along with rigid concentration are the prescribed pathway to Enlightenment ", in contrast to the Maharishi's " belief that Enlightenment was compatible with active living and easily available to everyone.

His theological position was orthodox, but laid more stress upon Christian experience than upon rigid dogmatic belief.

It was an idée fixe, a rigid belief, received wisdom, a decision already made and one that no fact or event could derail.

The term " American exceptionalism " has been in use since at least the 1920s and saw more common use after Soviet leader Joseph Stalin chastised members of the Lovestone-led faction of the American Communist Party for their heretical belief that America was independent of the Marxist laws of history " thanks to its natural resources, industrial capacity, and absence of rigid class distinctions.

The term comes from an English translation of a condemnation made in 1929 by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin criticizing Communist supporters of Jay Lovestone for the heretical belief that America was independent of the Marxist laws of history " thanks to its natural resources, industrial capacity, and absence of rigid class distinctions.

This form of techno-utopianism reflected a belief that technological change revolutionizes human affairs, and that digital technology in particular-of which the Internet was but a modest harbinger-would increase personal freedom by freeing the individual from the rigid embrace of bureaucratic big government.

Kryten's rigid belief in " Silicon Heaven ", the electronic afterlife, kept him going — the idea that he would be rewarded for his servitude in the afterlife, where humans would instead become the servants.

According to REBT, if a person's evaluative B, belief about the A, activating event is rigid, absolutistic and dysfunctional, the C, the emotional and behavioral consequence, is likely to be self-defeating and destructive.

Although there is no official, rigid " belief system " or ideology that is taught, most practitioners over time seem to share similar core values, including:

Although he has said that he did not think he would be here if it were not for the love and support of Mitchell, more recently he noted that he used to live a rigid existence aimed at calming his many anxieties — " I was very happy, but it was a small happiness " — whereas now, as the subtitle of Embracing the Wide Sky: A tour across the horizons of the mind asserts, he believes that we ought to seek to liberate our brains – a belief reflected in his new life:

Carlos, however, was known for his firm belief in the divine right of kings to govern absolutely, the rigid orthodoxy of his religious opinions, and the piety of his life.

The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo transformed the Rio Grande region from a rich cultural center to a rigid border poorly enforced by the United States government.

During the early years of his reign a group of Bavarian Regents ruled in his name, and made themselves very unpopular by trying to impose German ideas of rigid hierarchical government on the Greeks, while keeping most significant state offices away from them.

As a reflection of categories of sexuality so sharply defined by the government and society at large, lesbian subculture developed extremely rigid gender roles between women, particularly among the working class in the U. S. and Canada.

The Education Office of that day had to administer a somewhat chaotic system of government grants to local schools, and Lingen was conspicuous for his fearless discrimination and rigid economy, qualities which characterized his whole career.

Therefore, when it comes to railroad mergers, the federal government is more rigid than usual.

Mitsunari was a leader of bureaucrats in Hideyoshi's government, and was known for his rigid character.

This, he argued, would allow the government to operate more efficiently, and bring together the communities by dissolving rigid inter-ethnic legal boundaries.

Muldoon's government, which had been growing increasingly unpopular in its third term, was seen as rigid, inflexible, and increasingly unresponsive to public concerns.

By the late 1920s the BBC was formed, and the “ UK government concluded that this was such a powerful means of mass communication that it would have to be in state control .” Because of rigid governmental controls and a lack of popular music broadcasting, much of the British population began to turn to radio stations from abroad, such as Radio Lyon or Normandy, Radio Athlone, Mediterranee and Radio Luxembourg.

Confidential government papers such as the yearly cabinet papers used routinely to be withheld formally, although not necessarily classified as secret, for 30 years under the thirty year rule, and released usually on a New Year's Day ; freedom of information legislation has relaxed this rigid approach.

An opponent of church government in any form, he was no friend to the rigid and tyrannical Presbyterianism of the day, and inclined to Independency and Cromwell's party.

Although one of Yeltsin ’ s supporters in the years after the October 1993 crisis and an adviser to the Economics Ministry, Vinogradov criticised the government in 1995 of following too rigid an economic policy and said that the conflict in Chechnya was damaging the economy.

The rigid government rules pressurized the depressed climbers.

As the academic art promoted by the Paris Salon, always more rigid than London, was felt to be stifling French art, alternative exhibitions, now generally known as the Salon des Refusés (" Salon of the Refused ") were held, most famously in 1863, when the government allowed them an annex to the main exhibition for a show that included Édouard Manet's Luncheon on the Grass ( Le déjeuner sur l ’ herbe ) and James McNeill Whistler's Girl in White.

They have been found to constantly meet the rigid specifications of military, government and law enforcement agency contracts.

All of these were principles of the two great Alliances ( the Northern and the Southern ), as were also pure food legislation, abolition of landholding by aliens, reclamation of unused or unearned land grants ( to railways, e. g. ), and either rigid federal regulation of railways and other means of communication or government ownership thereof.

Sandecker is perhaps one of the most flamboyant and rigid leaders of a government organization such as NUMA.

* May-student strike in May and June developed into widespread and unprecedented protests over poor working conditions and a rigid educational system, which threatened to bring down the government.

* May-student strike in May and June developed into widespread and unprecedented protests over poor working conditions and a rigid educational system, which threatened to bring down the government.

In Canudos, Antônio Conselheiro, aided by a local government by committee, composed by 12 " apostles ", or elders, established a communist-like social system, with division of labour and produce, common property, abolition of civil marriage and of the official currency, prohibition of taverns, liquor and prostitution, rigid control over crimes and mandatory religious activities.

With the promulgation of the Domestic Relations and Inheritance Law in 1898, the Japanese government institutionalized more rigid family controls than most people had known in the feudal period.

Faludi has rejected the claim advanced by critics that there is a " rigid, monolithic feminist orthodoxy ", noting in response that she has disagreed with Gloria Steinem about pornography and Naomi Wolf about abortion.

According to Tober and Carroll, indigo children may function poorly in conventional schools due to their rejection of rigid authority, being smarter ( or more spiritually mature ) than their teachers, and a lack of response to guilt -, fear-or manipulation-based discipline.

The boundary between the lithosphere and the underlying asthenosphere is defined by a difference in response to stress: the lithosphere remains rigid for very long periods of geologic time in which it deforms elastically and through brittle failure, while the asthenosphere deforms viscously and accommodates strain through plastic deformation.

Symptoms include: rigid body, rigid limbs, limbs staying in same position when moved ( waxy flexibility ), no response, loss of muscle control, and slowing down of bodily functions, such as breathing.

Churchill was trying to coordinate an Allied response to Stalin's imposition of rigid Soviet control.

The band's music, punctuated by the use of a drum machine, has also been seen as influential to industrial rock, while Blush has also described the Albini-fronted project as " an angst-ridden response to the rigid English post-punk of Gang of Four ".

Wong explains how “ The code of Necessity that Maxine's mother lives by is a legacy from her native land, where scarcity of resources has given rise to a rigid, family-centered social structure .” The aunt ’ s response to necessity-driven society is extravagance, embodied in her adultery:

Researchers realized that these figures say more about the vibrational modes of the plate than the response of the sand and created an experimental set-up that minimized outside effects, using a shallow layer of brass balls in a vacuum and a rigid plate.

Granuloma formation is initiated by antigens secreted by the miracidium through microscopic pores within the rigid egg shell, and there is strong evidence that the vigorous granulomatous response, rather than the direct action of parasite egg antigens, is responsible for the pathologic tissue manifestations in schistosomiasis.