All bones and no bend.

You'd have heartless eyes and an obstinate mouth.

Just frozen stockstill like rocks.

Sure, sure. Just a little stiff, that's all.

But your thumb looks a little stubborn.

The muscles were frozen, paralyzed dystonic is how we refer to that.

She's wooden, gauche, artificial.

When my face gets tired, I sit down.

After standing for 6 hours, Antonio's legs became stiff.

The rigid positions on disarmament sections for this year's summit outcome did not emerge from a vacuum.

They're very, very stiff. They stretch very, very little.

Your limbs are stiff... worms are eating your heart... and this heady fragrance of dead flowers... this heady fragrance of dead flowers...

I know there's still something harsh and stiff in my style.

Attempts to internationalize the dispute and to transfer the arena of negotiations to the United Nations and other international forums only serve to create unnecessary obstacles and to make already entrenched positions more rigid.

The muscles were frozen, paralyzed dystonic is how we refer to that.

But his feet were turned in like hers, and he was all stiff and funny too.

I was so petrified and so numb, all I could look was in the rear view mirror.

I haven't warsled for years. I may be a little out of ppractice.

The legs were swollen and the knees were stiff, so he needed a long preparation.

The Turkish side, however, had not yet given any sign of changing its intransigent policy.

The extent of that compromise should not be underestimated it confounded the criticism that FICSA was rigid, harsh and uncooperative.

The view was expressed that such a rule, which was intended to protect the interests of local creditors, was excessively rigid.

Indeed, the application of rigid solutions has contributed rather to a further widening of the gap between countries.

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

To do so rigidly would lead to duplication of work, inefficiencies and loss of economies of scale.

Come over here. Now notice, he thinks robots have to be a bit stiff.

Diversity and mixing of land uses versus rigid zoning

Members considered that the mechanisms proposed were unnecessarily rigid and that flexibility was very important in this case.

This is true, but this cannot be used as a pretext for inflexibility or either my position or nothing behaviour.

Peacekeeping, humanitarian action and development are parallel activities and should not be rigidly divided into successive phases.

The Commission should also reject the dogmatic use of the Mavrommatis principle as a basis for the clean hands doctrine.

Unfortunately, the progress seemed to be quite slow and painstaking, the (Mrs. Krásnohorská, Slovakia) positions of some delegations rather inflexible.

While ODA left donors some margin for manoeuvre, the rigidity of a global tax might produce a reduction in ODA rather than supplement it.

Otherwise, the preparatory work would be useless in that it would have introduced elements of rigidity into the statute that could militate in future against the effective operation of the court.

In this regard, the constant search for consensus should not be hindered by unreasonable pre conditions or rigid positions.

To put it simply, a sound management system cannot operate with rigid bureaucratic structures and institutional inflexibilities.

Economies in transition often cope with a rigid and heavy infrastructure that does not provide for efficient use of existing energy systems.

Extensive negotiations are expected on the number of tariff bands, the criteria for setting such tariff bands and the modalities for reducing tariffs in each band.

The Committee points out that the matter has remained pending for a number of years while the Secretariat has continued to express its frustration about the perceived rigidities inherent in the regulations and rules governing procurement.

1. Taxation and customs

Development cannot proceed in the context of ideological rigidities and models that are not applicable to the diverse conditions and circumstances that exist in developing countries.

(a) Substantial reductions of tariffs, the rolling back of tariff peaks and the removal of tariff escalation

We do not believe that, as some suggest, such a step would hamstring the Council by imposing rigid guidelines.

Office des douanes et accises

Market access Tariffs and non tariff barriers