Using examples from dreams of patients he had analyzed, Tiebout presented evidence for the existence of this rigid barrier.

The other type, lowering the rigid barriers that limit competition between different kinds of financial institutions, is much more threatening.

An unanticipated improvement is that dormitory living has, at a stroke, broken down the rigid barriers that formerly separated students in different disciplines.

Once again his axe crushed metal armor, killing the foe without penetrating the rigid barrier of his steel plate.

Artes Magnus, a New York-based company, commissioned 19 artists to cross the rigid esthetic barriers that normally separate art from artifacts.

The absolute stillness of the room was a tangible force, a rigid barrier holding him from further movement, even from speech.

Her voice is startlingly deep, and her words pile up to form a rigid barrier against what she sees as an emotionally hysteric anti-gun movement.

One so sophisticated it could close itself off, lock itself away behind rigid barriers.

Such a shift would mean the lowering of one of the city's most rigid psychological barriers.

It is a rare example of how love may break the rigid barriers of caste that exist in this region.