Americans mostly don't expect to find Chinese society rigidly controlled, but should.

The population would have been rigidly controlled at an upper limit of 500,000.

He took them quickly off with the manner of a man who rigidly controlled his emotions.

"Get out of my house," he said, face rigidly controlled.

The killer was a man who rigidly controlled his weaknesses.

Even breaks for water and visits to the bathroom are rigidly controlled.

But when he spoke his voice was as rigidly controlled as before.

When she spoke again, it was slow, deliberate, rigidly controlled.

Their operation is rigidly controlled by the second classification of programs: the supervisors.

Our birth rate is low and population increase is rigidly controlled.