By this Maine meant that in archaic and primitive society a man's rights and duties were rigidly determined by his position at birth in a given family or clan.

The format of these is less rigidly determined by the franchise agreement, and franchisees often exercise the greater leeway that they thus have to differentiate their own franchises from others.

Their observations, reproduced by Barbicane, were rigidly determined.

Ego psychology would subsequently take for granted 'how rigidly determined our lives are - how predictable and repetitive...the same mistake over and over again'.

In the case of these species, rigidly determined, genetically programmed instinctual behaviour has given way to much less clearly focused instinctual drives.

Galton had become convinced that Lamarckism was ineffective because the character of each individual is rigidly determined by inheritance.

Actually, the way helical molecules pack together is not of great interest because their structures are too rigidly determined and unyielding.

If all future occurrences are rigidly determined ..., coming events may in some sense be said to exist already.

Ants have evolved quite elaborate behaviors, but most are rigidly determined.

In Statement A the history of racism is rigidly determined by specific laws of development.