Rigorous
rigorous (adjective) - strict and thoroughrigors, rigours - the difficult demanding things associated with an activity
done with rigour (or rigor) - done in a strict and thorough way
a rigorous proof
a rigorous analysis
the crime was treated with the full rigour of the law
subject to the rigours of the competitive environment
the coach introduced a more rigorous fitness regime
any exercise can be as rigorous or as gentle as you wish
a rigorous inner self-discipline and conformity for reasons of humility
the law is rigorous and thorough
provide a rigorous framework
provide a rigorous framework within which an application can be developed
fascism has become the object of rigorous academic analysis
a rigorous exclusion of issues or minority views seen as threatening by the established political elites
notably the lack of any clear and rigorous evidence
the most rigorous phase in which draconic punishments were enforced
underwent a rigorous training
a particular style of rigorous, and rigorously examined, curriculum
a rigorous framework upon which to base decisions
a rigorous methodology
financing decisions are based on a less rigorous methodology
rigorous training
rigorous staff training programs
rigorous theories and assumptions
theories and assumptions must be stated and analysis be rigorous if progress is to be made
is rigorous in keeping up to date
a rigorous inquiry
actuarial training is rigorous and difficult
rigorous inspection procedures
look at in a more rigorous manner
this project seeks to look at the question of labour regulation and economic performance in a more rigorous manner
rigorous scrutiny
subjected the Hyundai group to rigorous financial and tax scrutiny
a rigorous assessment
more rigorous, objective, methods of assessment than peer review alone can provide
too rigorous a pursuit of that objective might result not only in failure but also in net losses to the United States
rigorous recording of data
underlines the need for rigorous recording of data
rigorous financial control
certainly the generosity would have been impossible without rigorous financial control
a rigorous tradition
that rigorous and secluded tradition appealed to his own sensibility
rigorous efforts
rigorous efforts to spread the work evenly throughout the day
rigorous inspection
working in a climate-controlled environment with rigorous inspection and full testing
Example sentences:
* It is legendary that actuarial training is rigorous and difficult, but it is this depth of training which enables actuaries to take on the responsibility of advising on the financing of future payments involving billions of pounds for insurance companies and pension funds.
* It includes proper complaints and rigorous inspection procedures.
* Often, however, financing decisions are based on a less rigorous methodology.
* She can give him chapter and verse on Finance Acts and other current legislation, and is rigorous in keeping up to date.
* However, a data model does provide a rigorous framework within which an application can be developed.
* This project seeks to look at the question of labour regulation and economic performance in a more rigorous manner by undertaking a secondary analysis of the 1980 and 1984 Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys and by incorporating into the analysis additional economic data.
* Having already subjected the Hyundai group to rigorous financial and tax scrutiny earlier in the year, on Dec. 4 police raided the group's offices and seized documents which allegedly proved that company funds had been illegally channelled into the UPP's election campaign and that Hyundai employees had been mobilized to support Chung's candidacy.
* If used in combination with the financial and management data which research units now collect, bibliometric techniques represent more rigorous, objective, methods of assessment than peer review alone can provide.
* Yet too rigorous a pursuit of that objective might result not only in failure but also in net losses to the United States.
* The demand for central direction, then, partly as we have seen, a demand that the Local Education Authorities should be kept in their place, has become also a demand for a particular style of rigorous, and rigorously examined, curriculum.
* Edwards conducts a rigorous analysis of potential needs.
* Reliability centred maintenance and Maintenance Steering Group logic (MSG-;3) provide a rigorous framework upon which to base such decisions.
* During the past twenty years, however, fascism has become the object of rigorous academic analysis, with the result that much effort has been expended in attempting to establish whether or not the label is appropriate in the Spanish case.
* The most rigorous efforts to spread the work evenly throughout the day will not meet with total success for there will always be some predictable peaks and troughs of activity.
* The report was useful in pointing out the confused state of the Company's knowledge of its charities, and certainly the generosity would have been impossible without rigorous financial control (from 1810 to 1816, for example, expenditure had exceeded income by £10,000, largely because of the work on the Company's almshouses at Acton).
* This underlines the need for rigorous recording and interpretation by every member of an archaeological team on individual excavations, since ultimately the information may be used in a worldwide study.
* Onshore fabrication offers further benefits such as working in a climate-controlled environment, rigorous inspection and full onshore testing and commissioning which avoids expensive offshore delays,'; Mr Grainger said.
* This bi-partisanship is perfectly consistent with a rigorous exclusion of issues or minority views seen as threatening by the established political elites.
* The hallmarks of Thomas à Kempis's approach to the religious life are a rigorous inner self-discipline and a conformity, for reasons of humility, to the existing forms of Christianity as met from day to day wherever you happen to be.
* Amid the peace and comfort of your surroundings, you can enjoy healthy and delicious food, natural therapies and treatments, and any exercise can be as rigorous or as gentle as you wish.
* When he returned to Liverpool as manager, he introduced a more rigorous fitness regime.
* Instigate a comprehensive review of UK defence policy which will be dictated by a rigorous analysis of defence needs rather than by fixed monetary targets.
* The law is so rigorous and so thorough that it would be difficult to misunderstand the import of the statutory legislation which governs the property of the Palestinian Arabs who fled their homes in 1948 and who, by the same law, cannot return.
* Irrespective of this, theories and assumptions must be stated and analysis be rigorous if progress is to be made.
* All the results of rigorous staff training programs.
* There are also problems with the compression of morbidity thesis, most notably the lack of any clear and rigorous evidence of decreases in morbidity and the non-availability of measures of morbidity with which to test his proposition.
* The first decade of annexation (1910-;20) witnessed the most rigorous phase in which draconic punishments were enforced for resistance to Japan.
* The outstanding figures, like Wolsey, Cromwell, Burghley, Robert Cecil, and Walsingham, had high intellectual gifts and underwent a rigorous training.
