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  • Speaking as someone who has a Bachelor’s in Foreign Languages, who passed the rigorous Testing to Qualify for the Foreign Service, emphasis on the word Rigorous, and I speak read and write 3 Languages with Native Fluency, and I am still underqualified to work in the United Nations !

    Does popularity as governor qualify you to be president? 2008

  • "Rigorous" testing needs to be driven by an underlying theory.

    Have More Children?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • "Rigorous" cannot be an excuse for bureaucratic foot-dragging or self-serving politicking.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • "Rigorous" cannot be an excuse for bureaucratic foot-dragging or self-serving politicking.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • 'Rigorous' probe for Impala deaths mining accident at Impala Platinum's Rustenburg operations must be rigorous and thorough, the Congress of SA

    WN.com - Business News 2009

  • Rigorous Biometric Identification cards for all aliens that go beyond the data held on United States citizens (fingerprints, pictures, DNA sample, mother/father info) ... this includes both "guest workers" and people waiting to become citizens.

    Senate Democrats to push new immigration reform plan 2010

  • Rigorous Analysis Over time, if investors' appetite for the above-average yields on junk bonds remains insatiable, prices will rise and the spread between yields on junk bonds and Treasury securities will once again contract.

    'Junk' Debt May Not Deserve Its Name Suzanne McGee 2011

  • Rigorous cynicism logically requires that one apply a keenly critical eye to cynicism itself, interrogate it for artifice.

    Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009

  • Rigorous laboratory and/or clinical research training under the guidance of faculty in the division, other divisions of the Hospital and other departments of the University of Pennsylvania and its School of Medicine

    Research Expectations 2010

  • Rigorous laboratory and/or clinical research training under the guidance of faculty in the division, other divisions of the Hospital and other departments of the University of Pennsylvania and its School of Medicine

    Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Fellowship 2010

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