1.   Bernice thought she detected more than a suggestion of injured pride in his rigid stance.

2.   There was no response but the rigid stance seemed to soften a fraction.

3.   Bewildered, Rangers team physician Dr. B.J. Mycoskie gave Moret a series of valium injections, trying to induce him out of his rigid stance.

4.   She assumes a rigid stance, cocks her head down and swivels it from one side to the other, which wrings laughter out of London.

5.   The CTM has lost rank-and-file support nationwide because of its rigid pro-government stance, and the PRI suffered unprecedented losses in national elections in July.

6.   The emergence of Anderson in preseason has forced the Falcons coach to reconsider his once rigid stance against a fullback-by-committee approach.

7.   While Rev. Leahy has taken a rigid public stance, there is speculation that his private posture will be more flexible.

8.   Asked whether he would insist that Bosnian Serb territories be allowed to join Serbia proper, Karadzic appeared to soften his previously rigid stance.

9.   Asked whether he would insist that Bosnian Serb territories should be allowed to join Serbia proper, Karadzic appeared to soften his previously rigid stance.

10.   McGruther said the IRB was slowly changing its once rigid stance on amateurism, shown by the formation of the working party to address it.