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Example sentences for: rigor

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Critics revel in his elegant deflation of bunk theories, finding in his work "qualities in increasingly short supply in academic circles: old-fashioned moral rigor and plain old common sense" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). Some regret that Rosenbaum does not proffer his own theory clarifying the mysterious origins of Hitler's evil.
(As usual, it's impossible to know from the scenes in The New New Thing .) There is an increasing lack of rigor in Internet startups.
He recommended a balance between the rigor of research and the application process that needs to happen.
A recent study did not demonstrate an association between COX-2 expression and pathological or clinical factors, such as age, gender, survival, tumor size, stage and vascular invasion [ 26 ] , confirming results reported in previous studies [ 14 17 22 ] . To our knowledge, only three population studies, with varying methodological rigor, have been published examining the relationship between NSAID use and pancreatic cancer [ 27 28 29 ] . Each of these studies reported a lack of association.
Not only would that explain Alexander's fever, chills, and severe bowel distress, the scholars say, but the disease can induce a rare complication called "ascending paralysis," which looks like rigor mortis even though the afflicted person may not yet be dead.