(1) Ritual, law, and taboo are nothing but the institutional edifice of sclerotic priests.

(2) But it's a riveting tale with important insights into Japan's culture and its sclerotic system.

(3) Third, with cheap rural labour and using simple methods requiring little capital, it was not difficult to compete with the sclerotic State-owned enterprises.

(4) But this confusion simply this reflects the sclerotic nature of the online discussions about copyright.

(5) The War Department in the 1920s was indeed sclerotic , and Mitchell was indeed a visionary.

(6) The fact that the government would welcome such politically tendentious rubbish shows how far the sclerotic gestures of the adversary culture have taken over establishment taste.

(7) In contrast to the ossified and sclerotic humanities, for example, business studies now accounts for about a third of university activity and teaches about half the foreign students.

(8) Compared with the European Union, levels of inequality in the US resemble those of Latin American countries more than so-called sclerotic countries such as France or Germany.

(9) On plain films, the contralateral pedicle is often sclerotic , and the scoliosis is convex away from the side of the tumor.

(10) The essential thesis of his book, however, is that the fundamental causes of the defeat were intellectual: France had become an intellectually ossified and sclerotic society.

(11) A striking topographic relationship of focal inflammation and sclerotic atrophy was seen in areas with erosion of the epithelium.

(12) In Michigan, the problem is sclerotic corporate health-care, pension, and wage policies that are hugely expensive.

(13) The pulmonary tumors displayed a mixture of sclerotic , solid, and papillary patterns.

(14) This, quite apart from political ambitions, will be necessary to prevent the EU's already sclerotic decision-making process simply seizing up.

(15) It was a symbol that Europe had shed its socialistic, sclerotic traditions, and was now matching the United States and Japan step for step in high tech entrepreneurial achievement.

(16) Financially troubled banks and a sclerotic political system have halted its growth.

(17) Whatever the truth, it's an entertaining tale of a handsome young Italian with few prospects, sclerotic parents and ambitions to live in the US.

(18) Most cause lytic lesions with the exception of prostate and thyroid cancer, which cause sclerotic lesions.

(19) Reagan became President when America was economically sclerotic .

(20) In less than a decade, it has swept through sclerotic Europe like a capitalist hurricane, leaving a fundamentally altered continent in its wake.