The four unranked books which made the shortlist shared a seriousness and scholarly rigour, but were otherwise quite dissimilar. |
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The rise of natural science invigorated the study of human affairs by providing a new model of intellectual rigour and excellence. |
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However the research establishment simply see unsubstantiated claims, and a lack of scientific rigour. |
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The survey was validated by social scientists and taken seriously because of its rigour. |
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Behavioural research derives its authority from notions of scientific rigour and clinical detachment. |
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Writing in French purified his style, and his translations into English of his work retain a penitential rigour and asperity. |
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But the full rigour of the regulations will be applied with claw-backs and disallowances being enforced. |
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The rockers preach rigour, and rail against easy accommodations with the hosts of Midian constantly prowling around. |
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His book deals with memes and other cognate subjects less frivolously and with much more academic rigour than I can muster. |
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All of us need to apply as much rigour to reducing our water footprint as we have begun belatedly to apply to the reduction of our carbon one. |
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If only all priests and mullahs and rabbis exercised the same responsibility and rigour in their pronouncements. |
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Further reflexion and experiment showed me my subject strangled in that extreme of rigour. |
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However, mathematicians began to demand more rigour with the growing interest in analytic investigation. |
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It might well be that the only way of preventing British involvement in future escapades is for Parliament to act with more rigour. |
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Although this book has a certain gossipy charm, it lacks intellectual depth or rigour. |
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Outstanding research was its underpinning, and intellectual rigour its hallmark. |
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Quality teaching and learning in the form of intellectual rigour was essential to the success of this project. |
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The dialectic narrative took the form of a collage, crafted with an uncommon conceptual and cinematographic rigour. |
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She referred to the honesty, integrity and intellectual rigour of Hodson and Archer's approach. |
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His intellectual rigour and sharp focus on finances have also kept Quinn out of financial trouble. |
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Some social sciences are felt to lack the rigour and testability associated with the natural sciences. |
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Our intellectual culture demands that every idea or phenomenon be subjected to the unrelenting rigour of rationalism, or excesses of scientism. |
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The rigour of town planning laws will depend upon the philosophy of the government of the day. |
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Enforcement is an assessment of countries' rigour in carrying out their laws. |
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It does not help that the scholarly apparatus betrays an equally infirm commitment to rigour. |
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Year after year, the UK's elite universities bemoan the lack of knowledge and rigour among their intake of straight-A school-leavers. |
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Enthusiasm and dedication can easily turn to self-delusion and, once scientific rigour is relaxed, error and confusion are almost inevitable. |
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It is very evident that the rigour with which merger control is enforced depends in part on the agenda of the Minister. |
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Without this rigour, the buildings would simply degenerate into slushiness. |
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The report did not meet the most elementary standards of professional and analytical rigour. |
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He knew how to combine gentleness with academic rigour, and this is not very common. |
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They are very high quality and are managed with the same rigour applied to BMO's assets. |
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In other words, as the methodological rigour of a study increased, the reported effectiveness decreased. |
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The same qualities of precision and rigour he showed in research were brought to his teaching but this did not mean that his lectures were complicated. |
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The Committee recommended that the Service amend its operational policy to enhance its administrative rigour. |
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Your capacity for hard work, intellectual rigour and incisiveness is well-known throughout the profession and is something to which I can personally attest. |
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Exemplifying the report's general lack of rigour are gross syntactical, grammatical and spelling errors too numerous to count. |
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Such structures are necessary to protect national memory and to give a society confidence that the memory will be transmitted accurately and with intellectual rigour. |
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Not every one can speak across media and different institutions as Martin and Morris can with intellectual rigour, accessibility and a sense of humour and relevance. |
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It raises the question of whether the full rigour of the penalty points system will be brought to bear upon speeding civilian ministerial drivers. |
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You may well find that a life-affirming experience like seeing writing of this calibre produced to this standard will compensate for a lack of rigour at its core. |
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But Mr Jospin, whose Protestant background smacks, to the French, of puritanical rigour, may keep his word. |
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Surprised by the extreme rigour of the winter, the Tajik authorities resorted to drastic rationing of water, gas and electricity. |
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Geometry, rigour and sobriety for this sculptural and mobile object that highlights the plant in the home. |
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The truth, ladies and gentlemen, is that a little more rigour in the interventions would not go amiss. |
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An innovative project where scientific rigour and artistic creativity bond together to explain the mechanism underspinning consciousness. |
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Their views were based on a simplified biblicism, moral rigour, and criticism of abuses in the contemporary church. |
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Its menu is broadly vegetarian, revolving around sandwiches, Ottolenghi-ish salads and daily specials executed with LEAF's usual foodist rigour. |
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But the terrorists must be in no doubt: they will be pursued with rigour, with no regard to race and religion. |
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Our policy of rigour has put us in good stead to take advantage of the economic upturn when it comes. |
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The policies include the successful pursuit of price stability, fiscal rigour, foreign investment and open trade. |
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Therefore, the scientific rigour of a registration process is dependent on the evaluator saying the data is needed. |
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Although conjectures can to some degree be intuited by deductive and inductive reasoning, they must be proven with absolute rigour. |
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Despite its rigour, however, Greek geometry does not satisfy the demands of the modern systematist. |
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He gets to join the extreme rigour of the hyperrealism and the exquisite poetry of an impressionism all in nuances. |
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I was thinking about how to bring the cosiness of knitwear together with Balenciaga, which has such rigour and perfection in its lines. |
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Sometimes we have confounded the necessary order and the rigour of our parish pastoral organisation, with the impatient and irritated maximalism. |
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Sometimes the pretense of purely abstract intellectual rigour is in fact a literary device. |
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This metal wristlet watch sets the stage for an impressive statement: the graphic rigour of the cube lightened by a domed surface. |
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It is a role that demands rigour, empathy and sensitivity, and I am honored to be able to fill it regularly. |
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In the second half of 2010, Suncor will add more rigour to its onboarding process. |
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It has let the opposition Social Democrats portray themselves, somewhat speciously, as champions of financial rigour. |
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The entire structure of metaphysics and theology seemed to totter under the rigour of Kantian criticism. |
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It is calculated that more than 2,000 books have been published on him, but a great deal of it is hagiolatry, lacking critical rigour and dispassionate appraisal. |
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A probabilist is also a theorist who has happened upon the magic world of probability, where rigour is introduced into the world of chance. |
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These years of study would instil the young student with a sense of instrumentation and a real rigour in terms of composition. |
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Pauli distinguished himself not only for his brilliance but also for his exacting rigour and impertinent witticisms. |
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Such flexibility, reflexivity and responsiveness contribute to the overall strength and rigour of data collection and analysis. |
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In addition, we commit to exercising judgment, professionalism, rigour, self-discipline, perseverance and team spirit. |
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The standards of rigour that he set, defining, for example, irrational numbers as limits of convergent series, strongly affected the future of mathematics. |
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This means unnegotiable rigour in our choices and in the control of our production processes. |
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It is-in the unique totality of its unfinishedness, in the rigour of its inessential incompleteness, in the privilege of its infinitude. |
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Not always the most accommodating, but he was at his best applying scientific rigour to a problem. |
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Like Goodsell he is committed to bringing as much rigour and scientific detail as possible to his depictions of the machinations of life. |
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We can only convince people externally that we are applying budgetary rigour if we can demonstrate it internally. |
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Not all tests are devised for the same purpose, or constructed to the same degree of rigour. |
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The same transparency, rigour and ethics underpin Euler Hermes' commitment to its shareholders. |
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Until 1999, the rigour with which this objective was pursued varied from survey to survey and from round to round. |
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Consequently, the desktop OS is not maintained with the same rigour as the OS for servers. |
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In academic cooperation, France is renowned for the quality of its strong academic tradition of rigour and excellence. |
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Without this kind of rigour, infrastructure funding runs the risk of descending into little more than a government slush fund. |
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I am also concerned that to some extent the approach lacks scientific rigour in this area. |
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One of variables that was used to measure rigour was the level of independence of the researcher. |
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To enhance uniformity and rigour, improvements have been made to the content requirements for the strategic planning documents. |
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This aspect continues to exhibit a poor degree of rigour and fails to provide acceptable design completion assurance. |
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Corpses are left outdoors and scientifically observed for rigour and maggots, to help budding crime scene investigators learn to determine time of death. |
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Behind the humour, there is a great truth: yes to rigour in responding to requests, but no to the host of indecipherable formulas. |
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Medical confidentiality should be guaranteed and respected with the same rigour as in the population as a whole. |
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As regards the way it was used, a lack of rigour in the analysis has been confirmed. |
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Second, he adds more rigour regarding what is an optimal policy given the beliefs of the monetary authority. |
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Manufacturing rigour and discipline are accompanied by a continuous improvement policy and corrective action to sustainably optimise design and the manufacturing process. |
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The long list of Sinhala and Tamil moderates who've been assassinated by the LTTE is very sad testimony to the rigour of the LTTE plan for the Tamil destiny. |
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There is something there to satisfy and give happiness to every self-critical esthete who rejects orthodoxy and finds well-being only in intellectual rigour and in the desire to outdo oneself. |
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Because of their false appearance of scientific rigour, the results of polygraph examinations would more often than not be accepted at face value. |
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This applies primarily to papers that were not subject to the rigour of peer review, but even some journal articles that were presumably vetted by colleagues show bias, usually in favour of shared custody. |
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The idea of target groups should not lead to the reduction of rigour with regard to problem identification and analysis, or give licence for patronizing attitudes. |
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Juan established a school and left a splendid legacy, as his disciples held on to what they had learnt from their master with great honour: rigour in poverty, assiduousness in prayer, constancy in study and zeal in preaching. |
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Ten years on, I remember their riotousness more than their rigour. |
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However, reducing the rigour applied in the construction of such assumed distributions puts one on a slippery slope towards arbitrary assumptions. |
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It is incumbent on us that the necessary rigour and in-depth analysis of each grievance case take place in order for the Members of the Board to submit their findings and recommendations to the Chief of the Defence Staff. |
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Their three Rs are rigour, rightwing history and rote learning. |
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A fundamental work where are present the principles of the classic French equitation rehearsed in the course of the rigour and of the Germanic precision. |
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Of course there should be budgetary discipline and rigour, but what you have been doing over the last five years is not an example of rigour but rather of shoddiness. |
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It cannot be denied that those actions must be commended for their rapidity, fairness and legal rigour, which redounded greatly to the benefit of the human rights of the detained persons. |
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Making sense of the vast and complex array of data that emerges in any complex initiative is a huge and daunting task-one that requires perceptiveness, imagination, discipline, and rigour. |
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To call Sir Wilfrid Laurier, one of the first prime ministers of this country a sell-out is to show incredible narrow-mindedness and a glaring lack of intellectual rigour. |
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The Minister's certification of a conservation easement's ecological sensitivity and fair market value does not assess the agreement's rigour or defensibility in a court of law. |
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The Commission will apply the appropriate rigour and objectiveness in preparing these opinions, with no preconceived ideas and no fears about stating the truth. |
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Combating fraud As taxpayers, the citizens of Europe rightly expect fraud, wastefulness and mismanagement to be combated with the greatest rigour. |
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They represent such uncharted territory, that Flag states must commit to managing the fleets that operate in these areas with particular rigour, and ensure transparency among them on what is being done in this respect. |
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The Planning objective will be to extend the coverage and improve the quality of the plans of departments and agencies, in terms of rigour, concreteness and clarity of the link between business and people management goals. |
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A group of French intellectual worthies once proposed, rather self-flatteringly, that French be the sole legal language of the EU, because of its supposedly unmatchable rigour and precision. |
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Its action must be based on rigour and on political, religious and cultural neutrality, so that it can proffer good advice, so that it can wisely distinguish between value and price, between principles and procedures. |
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The fact that works involving such a large sum of money were decided upon with no formalities is another illustration of the lack of rigour in the management of the project. |
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The evidence base for a decision is the multiple forms of evidence combined to balance rigour with expedience-while privileging the former over the latter. |
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The choice of ultra-feminine and precious fabrics, the brilliance and exuberance of abstract or naive prints, daring joy and cheerfulness of colors, the rigour and precision of slantwise cuts, touches one in the least. |
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Key qualities which are applied in all areas of our business are rigour, loyalty, discretion, meticulousness, persistence, incisiveness and resourcefulness. |
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Yet it may not be clear for several years if these rules will be enforced with enough rigour to give Moneyball a sporting chance against munificence. |
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That way if one postbag was lost, the duplicate would still reach its destination. These daunting, early years taught Mr Ramadorai and his co-workers frugality and rigour. |
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Under the pretext of budgetary rigour, the MEPs were thus asked to vote on an ill-assorted series of proposals whose sole aim is to discredit fellow Members elected by the House to manage Parliament's budget. |
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A combination of aestheticism and scientific rigour, this multi-disciplinary work in five volumes is the most substantial work in the Social Sciences ever produced on beauty and the role of the appearance. |
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The contribution of Board members to the realization of its mandate must be made in respect of the law, with honour, loyalty, rigour, caution, diligence, efficiency, assiduity and fairness. |
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The Council stresses once again the importance of keeping a tight grip on payment appropriations for 2004, which should reflect a level of budgetary rigour similar to that being applied at national level. |
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It evolved from a series of considerations that attempted to find a balance between what was needed to maintain technical rigour and independence on one hand and what was doable and affordable on the other. |
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When we speak of God's hesed, in contradistinction to his justice and rigour, we indicate the quality of his boundless generosity, the exuberant and spontaneous nature of his benevolence and grace. |
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Tailoring in this sense does not mean abandoning rigour, but it does mean coming to terms with the strengths and weaknesses of an existing pool of potential applicants. |
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Stein has earned international recognition for the breadth of his theatrical vision, the rigour of his research, the inventiveness of his stagecraft, and his ability to continually renew his art. |
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The lack of lasting performance improvement, we believe, lies in the fact that business has conspicuously failed to blend analytical rigour and business skills with deep-rooted behavioural change. |
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For any research process to be credible there must be a degree not just of rigour, but also quality assurance based on transparency and triangulation. |
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The evaluation was unable to assess the significance of cases funded at the trial and superior court levels with the same rigour as Supreme Court of Canada cases for a number of reasons. |
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They shared an erudition, intellectual rigour and sensuality-but while Laurendeau had an almost therapeutic sensitivity, listening to people without judging them, Scott had a cutting sense of humour. |
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But Germany wanted the IMF as external enforcer, to impose rigour not only on Greece but also on the soft-hearted European Commission. More than two years later, the enforcer has at times been Greece's main helper. |
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Romania must proceed with greater earnestness and with greater rigour on the road of reforms, but it must get on the accession train, the European Union train. |
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If research leads to enlightenment not merely through the mind but through both mind and heart, then it must be said of UIE that its work has always combined mental rigour with open-heartedness. |
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Maria MARSHALL's mastering of cinematographic techniques, the great rigour of her direction and the repetitive aspect of projections give these brief narratives a truely hypnotic dimension. |
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In the descriptive disciplines, the questions concerning the languages of the object and the symbolic systems impose some scientific rigour on the borders of linguistic and extralinguistic considerations. |
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Problems with some technical issues in projective geometry, and the rising standards of rigour at the end of the 19th century provoked attempts to axiomatise the subject. |
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The notions underlying this duty are rigour and honourableness. |
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Yet given his undoubted skill at sugarcoating otherwise unpalatable scientific explanations with jolly personal tales, he should not be afraid to inject a little more rigour and detail into his pop-science confections. |
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Lines, distinct shapes oppose dreamy forms, as with the mechanical rigour of the left hand whilst the right undulates, escapes, trills and produces beautiful dissonances. |
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The elegance of Fred Astaire, the personality of Isadora Duncan, the rigour of the school of classical dance are their principal models of reference for the dance. |
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However, the decree takes no account of the particular nature of the Prato textile region and may place dozens of local businesses in serious difficulty if it is applied with excessive rigour. |
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Archives should work to develop an internal culture and community which values individual scholarship, intellectual rigour and enquiry, and the capacity to make and accept responsibility for curatorial judgements. |
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Amy touched all who worked with her, leaving a legacy of activist work that aspires to combine intellectual rigour and concrete outcomes that make a difference in the lives of people who lack resources, power and access. |
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The term 'science' evokes objectivity, rigour and independence, and the image we have of researchers is of totally disinterested philanthropists in search of fundamental truths. |
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Unusually sensitive to questions of rigour, Newton at a fairly early stage tried to establish his new method on a sound foundation using ideas from kinematics. |
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Working under a strict confidentiality policy, the professionals of Darwin Media Group fulfill their mission with the utmost fastidiousness and rigour, constantly striving for excellence. |
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The 200-plus towers now on the way face no such rigour. |
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At a time of intense pressure on public finance at the national level, the demand that the Union applies rigour and restraint to its funding is fully justified. |
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In my opinion, a lack of rigour in the management of water quality would create a very important precedent, since, in the future, the abandonment of this management could be allowed. |
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They should exercise rigour, caution, honesty and integrity in the processing and interpretation of human genetic data, human proteomic data or biological samples, in view of their ethical, legal and social implications. |
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The research and intervention projects must be seen as complementary activities geared to permitting an interaction between experimental rigour, empirical approach and the capacity for action. |
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We've never had the same rigour or transparency on the farm. |
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This later caused a great deal of controversy, owing to its lack of rigour. |
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Often speculative in nature, it was widely criticised for its pure conjecture and lack of scholarly rigour. |
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Were the offence considered only under this point of view, it would not be easy to assign any good reasons to justify the rigour of the laws. |
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The monotheistic rigour of Judaism posed difficulties for Roman policy that led at times to compromise and the granting of special exemptions. |
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Monastic in its rigour and plainness, the new museum embodies a mastery of light and materials that seeks to reconnect with the elementality of art and nature. |
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Bitter complaints were excited by the rigour with which Montfort suppressed the excesses of the Seigneurs and of contending factions in the great communes. |
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Hardy is credited with reforming British mathematics by bringing rigour into it, which was previously a characteristic of French, Swiss and German mathematics. |
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Bitter complaints were excited by de Montfort's rigour in suppressing the excesses of both the seigneurs of the nobility and the contending factions in the great communes. |
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