0 the fact that people are made to follow rules in a very severe way: --
1 the quality of being detailed, careful, and complete: --
Her arguments lacked intellectual rigor.
2 high standards: --
We had analytical rigour, and it felt dangerously close to rigor mortis.
The effort toward rigor substitutes correct reasonings and results for incorrect ones, but it offers other rewards too.
In other words: to calculate the rigor and austerity of data compilation.
However, the duration, rigor, intensity, and abusiveness of today's medical education also engender a sense of entitlement to high income, prestige, and social power.
It may well be that the perils of present-minded history, in this instance driven by the commendable aspiration to combat fearsome tendencies, compromise conceptual rigor.
We find that the rigor and structure of environmental regulations have particular impact, as does emphasis on enforcement.
The strength of the first chapters is the steadfast focus on formal rigor.
The increased rigor associated with these models, however, is rarely accompanied by the extra data required to cope with the influx of new parameters.
