rigidified

The Democratic Party, which has rigidified into the party of more spending and higher taxes while ignoring the country's mounting deficits.

Bill George: Debt Ceiling Agreement: No Cause for Celebration Bill George 2011

The Democratic Party, which has rigidified into the party of more spending and higher taxes while ignoring the country's mounting deficits.

Bill George: Debt Ceiling Agreement: No Cause for Celebration Bill George 2011

The Democratic Party, which has rigidified into the party of more spending and higher taxes while ignoring the country's mounting deficits.

Bill George: Debt Ceiling Agreement: No Cause for Celebration Bill George 2011

Once again, this is a rigidified version of an existing description theory, viz. causal descriptivism.

Names Cumming, Sam 2009

But it also tends to dissolve or centrifuge others — network standard English is currently dying in America, precisely because of the crack-up of rigidified media monopolies, and global English is growing luxuriantly in all different directions.

Hoverbikes 2009

However, once they are rigidified (for instance to ˜the @ (heavenly body seen in the morning)™ and ˜the @ (heavenly body seen in the evening)™) their intensions coincide (as the constant function that picks out Venus relative to every possible world).

Names Cumming, Sam 2009

The problem is also with our rigidified scientific way of approaching health -- we're not being thorough enough in our science.

Alison Rose Levy: Robert Thurman: The Sacred Cows in the Health Care Debate 2009

Indeed, this account is simply a rigidified version of metalinguistic descriptivism.

Names Cumming, Sam 2009

Other versions of descriptivism that we have seen so far could also be rigidified using the dthat operator.

Names Cumming, Sam 2009

Experienced leaders can certainly blunder if their minds have rigidified see: Rumsfeld, Donald, but the records of leaders without long experience and prudence is not good.

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