1.   Before she had even finished school, she applied for a CIA job, a rigorous process that results in few hires among the thousands of applicants every year.

2.   After this apparently rigorous process, when the company finally applies, the FCC will come under enormous pressure to approve the petition.

3.   Aides said Ms. Meissner felt that the case had gone through a rigorous administrative process and that the INS had thus met its obligation to national security.

4.   But before these funding plans become law, they must pass through the rigorous Capitol Hill budget process.

5.   But he defended the new rigorous process as necessary, even if it causes delays.

6.   But in the rush, some experts expressed concern that the new tests might not be subjected to the usual rigorous scientific process.

7.   But the more rigorous process forced the base to ground its entire fleet at once, pushing training back more than a week.

8.   Canadian drugs go through a rigorous testing process equal to that in the United States, Strandberg says.

9.   Directly and indirectly, Wilson is the end result, and perhaps a symbol, of a rigorous process that has helped make Valdosta perennial champions.

10.   Federal money for research traditionally has come from institutions like the National Science Foundation after proposals go through a rigorous process of review by scientific panels.