They are frameworks for assessment, not formulas to be rigidly applied.

But do not exclude the possibility because if this rule is applied rigidly, it could occasionally lead to the loss of interesting pathways.

At the height of imperial power, exclusivity was rigidly applied.

The thresholds in the table below are used as guidelines for establishing the regions, but they are not applied rigidly.

Sentencing is based on a set of guidelines that should not be applied rigidly as if they are "writ in jurisprudential stone".

The caste system, although present in form, was never rigidly applied.

This framework can not be rigidly applied to all the film stories, and there are a good proportion of Hollywood movies that defy this theory.

Original leading articles, in which free-trade principles will be most rigidly applied to all the important questions of the day.

The ranges given below are approximations and are not meant to be too rigidly applied.

The format of the parking notice is rigidly applied.