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We received a very positive report. One of the things they cited was our strong university support. They also recognized the quality of our student body and facilities and the rigor of our curriculum.

Bruce Green

If you go from a model where you have no classes to having 10, you run the risk of not having enough people who are properly trained. You have to grow a program slowly to maintain high levels of rigor.

Jody Smith

Kids need it. They crave it. And we'll be certainly providing them a lot of supports to meet the rigor.

Kristin Waters

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

Nadia Boulanger

We'd like to know if something's changed. Has the FDA increased inspections, have they increased in rigor, are new testing methods being used that are more sensitive in picking up problems?

Joe Deffenbaugh

Conducted with rigor and in full accord with the standards of [the accounting] profession.

Arthur Andersen

The department and the board are going to be looking very closely at high school education starting now and revamping it, looking at the rigor of high school courses and how relevant they are.

Lisa Gross

If there is a better way to add rigor to the curriculum, I want to hear it.

Sue Thilo

If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters?

Bernard Mandeville

Where it was once de rigueur to wear a tie in New York's finer establishments, that practice is now de rigor mortis.

Tim Zagat

On many occasions, we observed weak understanding of basic program management and systems engineering principles, an abandonment of traditional processes, and a lack of rigor in execution.

Richard Covey

Nationally, our students aren't competing as well as they need to be with other countries when it comes to science and math. We need to increase the rigor for students, especially since science plays such an important role in the job market.

Cathy Schroeder

Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

Maggie Kuhn

It is absolutely appropriate to receive financial support from those who expect us to meet their needs if we hold to high standards of academic rigor, freedom and responsibility. But this does not mean any party ... can buy the results they want, whether it is the content of our courses, the findings of our research or the education and outreach we deliver.

Hal Salwasser

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.

John Cleveland

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

Marquis De Custine

Ninety percent of American colleges take everybody who applies. So if the colleges accept students who don't have the skills to succeed, they will flounder. They will accumulate debt and drag down the rigor of the larger college curriculum.

Frederick Hess

It's not that we're against adding rigor, but I'm just not sure that adding rigor as far as this math and science requirement is the only way to keep students engaged in school.

Sam Stone

The president's idea was dead on arrival. Now it is well beyond rigor mortis.

Robert Schaeffer

Without the rigor of today's systems, I suspect things happened that didn't hit the radar as quickly as they do today.

Larry Wheeler

It really is about increasing the rigor in elementary and middle school.

Debra Robinson

We have to meet international standards. Our students are not prepared and we must do better. The question is: How do we get more rigor and relevance? We have to expect a child to be taught to compete.

Sen. Paul Mckinley

There's a much greater rigor and sensitivity about background checks.

Bill Olson

[She was] a copy editor, possessed of the rare capacity to sit all day in a small cubicle, like a monk in a cell, and read with an almost penitential rigor.

David Leavitt

We feel the arts bring out academic rigor.

Emily Hamilton

We try to make candy with all the rigor and the professionalism of a public company but with the heart and the vitality of a private company, ... Business Unusual.

Ellen Gordon