However, EIS President Susan Quinn said it was important not to make the entry system too rigid.
Meanwhile, Germany's labour market is still too rigid and its workers are the most expensive in the world.
Some blame a labour market that is too rigid to create sufficient jobs.
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In both cases, silicon chips are too rigid and expensive to be practical.
Look for too rigid eye contact, or eyes that are looking your way, but not focused, to spot the fakers.
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These attacks expose the brittleness that comes from building systems that are too rigid, that make too many unchecked trust assumptions.
And the labour market is still too rigid, despite a useful bill that passed its first stage in parliament last month.
At Garsewednack Residential Home, CQC inspectors found routines were too rigid, care records were disorganised and that some staff training was poor.
They have been responding to criticism that the world-lending institutions are too rigid in their lending policies, prescribing an inflexible one-size-fits-all remedy for needy nations.
Labour regulations are too rigid, raising the cost of doing business.
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Mr Barber said it was "right to prosecute organised crime" but that "too rigid a focus will send the signal that routine exploitation will be ignored by the authorities".
To criticism that Europe's labour and product markets are too rigid to cope with monetary union, he retorts that structural reforms, as in the Netherlands, will be hurried along.
States have complained, of course, that the law is too rigid, that it does not take into account the progress that kids make over time, not just year to year.
Still, some academics say with increasing force that too rigid an approach to adopting the euro may not suit small, open economies, such as those of Estonia, Lithuania or even Hungary.
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None of them argues with Labour's "fairness not favours" approach but many think the chancellor is being far too rigid and is threatening thousands of job losses while squeezing public sector pay.
If, on the other hand, they are too rigid, they will be impossible to apply to the varied environments of the third world, where countries from Argentina to Zaire have suffered banking crises.
Twenty years ago, neuroscientists held that after a certain critical period, usually no more than the first 12 months of life, the entire visual system has become far too rigid for any real learning to take place.
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In a decision that could have far-reaching implications in the realm of intellectual property, the justices on Monday unanimously overturned an appellate court's decision, ruling that the test for determining whether an invention is "obvious"--and thus not patentable--is too rigid.
A. Traditionally, business in China is bound by handshakes and verbal agreements. (In the U.S., however, ) Chinese companies must provide written documentation of issues in order to comply with the law, which Chinese businessmen may find too rigid compared to their own traditional and less formal methods of doing business.
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But I can't help noticing that they are rather like the arguments that Bank and other UK officials have always given, when asked about policies or targets that are different from those currently being followed here in the UK. Other countries' targets are always either too rigid - or too flexible.
The IMF has a reputation among some outside critics (including members of the World Bank) for being too dogmatic and rigid.
One might conclude that the author is too constrained by her rigid grounding in the physical sciences, and simply does not have the anthropologist's eye.
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