Besides being unfeasible to maintain, formations tight and rigid would have invited a nuclear barrage.

Capello should have to provide answers to the problem that lie at his door: principally rigid formation and lack of motivation.

They were a type of armoured but mobile infantry who did not require a rigid formation to be effective in combat.

Revelli is also credited with innovations that moved college marching bands across the country away from rigid military formations.

Massive, winged things that were neither angels nor demons flapped overhead in great clouds, holding rigid formations.

He stared at the raptors, ranged along the beach in a rigid formation, silently watching the boat.

German soldiers found that the Soviet armour attacked in rigid formations and took little advantage of terrain.

They've been in a rigid formation, with no patterns of movement to be analyzed.

A thousand Knights were arrayed there, in rigid formation.

There was an awkward moment of silence as the group before them stood in rigid formation.