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inflexible

Main Entry:	in·flex·i·ble [in-flek-suh-buhl] /ɪnˈflɛksəbəl/ Show Spelled
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Lazar rightly chafes at some of the more clumsy and inflexible programs.

Those roots have helped make the process strong but also inflexible.

Europe is economically inflexible but socially mobile.

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Lazar rightly chafes at some of the more clumsy and inflexible programs.

Those roots have helped make the process strong but also inflexible.

Europe is economically inflexible but socially mobile.

Both are rather inflexible and noisy fabrics, but soften up after some use.

They move too slowly, forget things and are inflexible.

Throughout the day, there are three trains per hour, making rail travel even more appealing for those with inflexible schedules.

For a sport governed by literal rules and inflexible numbers, golf is influenced by an inordinate amount of whimsy.

Second, the payout is far more immediate and inflexible.

The problems mostly stemmed from inflexible policies, primarily on the exchange rate.

But they're ordinarily made of hard, inflexible materials, which are also usually toxic.

Nuralagus was a relatively inflexible and bulky animal.

With this new policy, the administration is rejecting inflexible deportation policies that solve nothing.

If they are inflexible on the range, they definitely should show it.

Europe's economies, it is argued, remain shackled by inflexible labour and product markets.

The reliability of individual biological processes makes them, by definition, inflexible.

As gatekeeper of the tribal mind, he can be imperious and inflexible.

State and local officials criticized it as too expensive and inflexible.

Once a woman has chosen a career, whether traditional or not, inflexible workplace policies can exacerbate gender inequalities.

For its notoriously inflexible labour-market policies, it ranked among the lowest.

Neither is it draconian or a product of inflexible thinking.

Between him and us the issue is distinct, simple, and inflexible.

She strikes me as the inflexible type of person you do not want around in a crisis.

Our graduates might be pre-eminently well-suited to today's job market, but they are obviously inflexible.

They can be power hungry, tend to produce washed-out images in bright sunlight and are often thick and inflexible.

The firm negotiates forcefully with the country's notoriously inflexible labour unions.

In eseense, with an inflexible money supply, the real conomy had to adjust to meet shocks.

The shortest-term money-management instruments available today are inflexible.

How inflexible and how few tools will the dollar sone have when the eyes turn on them.

The problem is that hours are completely inflexible and that greater than minimal overtime is prohibited.

Researchers have found a clear correlation between inflexible bodies and inflexible arteries in subjects older than.

Others blamed regional accreditors for being too inflexible about, for example, standard models of credit hours.

It is sad to us but understandable-perhaps even inevitable-in terms of the inflexible rules of gorilla familial.

Tyler, criticized the university's rules of conduct as inflexible and urged the students to appeal.

But research has discredited inflexible workfare programs.

It seemed too inflexible to be compatible with grad school.

The highly inflexible nature of existing sanitation systems, burdened with over a century of capital.

Unusually bad weather and inflexible schedules forced operations managers to make tough calls.

Pushing a specific research project in your letter of intent can make you look inflexible.

And inflexible rules governing the types of establishments where cash can be paid in and taken out ought to be relaxed.

Summers did not help with his inflexible tempos and the amount of thoughtless orchestral loudness he.

But above all, she is an inflexible patriot who projects idealism as grossly and fervently as she purveys her charms.

Now that she's appearing in her own, made-to-order productions, the talent appears to have shrunk and become inflexible.

The problem lies within inflexible structures protected by a well-off elite.

The royal rules for dispensing with blood relatives were as inflexible as those of geometry.

Again this points to the unrealist and inflexible demands of such unions.

Romley's critics call him self-righteous, inflexible and a tough and unforgiving boss.

He is, however, intelligent enough to question the party's foolishly inflexible control over every facet of the students.

He thought wages were inflexible meaning they could not go down and there was a surplus of general labour.

But the struggle that led to the leaders' deaths indicates that only a small minority in the faction took that inflexible line.

China, meanwhile, is struggling to manage an overheated economy within an inflexible political system.

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