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• n  something hard to endure
• n  the quality of being valid and rigorous
• n  excessive sternness
  the rigors of boot camp

• It is a measure of the artful way Dawkins, 66, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford, tells a tale and the rigor he brings to his thinking that even those of us .
• One way of determining the rigor of state exams is to compare them to standardized tests given nationally.
• Some side with the Hurricane Center revolt, questioning the scientific rigor of his study.

• asperity
• grimness
• hardship
• rigour
• severity
• severeness
• rigorousness
• rigourousness
• cogency
• validity
• harshness
• inclemency
• hardness
• stiffness

News & Articles

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• Becoming Traviata: Behind the Scenes of Opera Is Sexy, Too
  Becoming Traviata Here's your chance to look behind the scenes of the 2011 Aix-en-Provence Festival production of Verdi's La traviata . Not tops on the agenda? Have a go anyway. What director Philippe Béziat's loose-limbed approach lacks in documentary rigor it makes up for in...
  June 11, 2013 - SF Weekly
• Gov. Perry signs HB 5
  Gov. Rick Perry today applauded efforts made this legislative session to set the bar even higher to ensure all Texas students are prepared for both college and career, bolstering our state's world-class, skilled workforce. Texas continues to be a national leader with regard to our school accountability system, curriculum standards, and expectations of rigor in our graduation requirements. The ...
  June 10, 2013 - The Cypress Creek Mirror
• The 'Forward-looking' CFO: Linking Financial Rigor with Leadership
  Global organizations operating in the contemporary business landscape need to tightly link financial rigor and strategic insight. Increasingly, senior financial executives are playing influential roles in strategy development and implementation, working closely with the CEO and the board to creatively assess and design growth opportunities. The question is: Are CFOs prepared to move beyond the ...
  June 6, 2013 - Knowledge at Wharton

Quotes

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• Muir Russell in USA Today
  Their rigor and honesty as scientists are not in doubt,concluded the third and most comprehensive investigation into the emails. "But we do find that there has been a consistent pattern of failing to display the proper degree of openness."
• Scott Kelly in Reuters
  We agree absolutely 100 percent with the decision to not repair the damage. There's a lot of engineering rigor put into making this decision. It took some time but that is because there was a lot of testing,Kelly told reporters gathered at...
• Jean-Claude Trichet in BusinessWeek
  We are in a period where we have to manage budgets very tightly,Trichet told journalists in Aix-en-Provence, France yesterday. "I have no problem with austerity, rigor. I call this good budgetary management."