They wield the power to veto any new restructuring arrangement, a power bolstered by the rigid deadline.

After weeks of work, the committee members faced a rigid deadline to get a bill ready before next week's recess.

He cautioned that his hope of major progress toward a comprehensive peace within 15 months was more a goal than a rigid deadline.

In the arts a consummate professional must produce consistent quality outcomes and meet rigid deadlines.

Under this Act, fishery rebuilding plans must meet a rigid 10-year deadline to rebuild fishing stocks to unprecedented levels.

Determined to be first with her "story" of the quarter, so that clients might trade the stock based on her interpretation of the figures just released, she set herself a rigid deadline of the next morning.

Speaking at a Democratic fund-raising dinner late Friday evening, Mr. Clinton said the initiative, Proposition 227, set rigid and unrealistic deadlines for non-English-speaking children to learn the language.

The reviews, required for all changes in city land, adhere to rigid deadlines.

We cannot impose a rigid deadline on the scientists for completing their evaluation of the proposal.

"We need to see that they are progressing," the official said, but added that "we don't think rigid deadlines are appropriate."