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Inflexibility in sentence

15 examples of Inflexibility in a sentence

The "but" in that sentence belies the inflexibility of the units, one fixed and fictional entity bumping up against another.
In the end, Emanuel’s office concluded that, “The uncertainty for taxpayers, coupled with FIFA’s inflexibility and unwillingness to negotiate, were clear indications that further pursuit of the bid wasn’t in Chicago’s best interests.”
They have built up an image of authority and moral inflexibility, and have helped themselves by picking enemies who are damned by all and lacking any kind of power to move against them (the weakened military, for example, or civilian members of the 1976-1983 dictatorship).
This group’s inflexibility is at the root of the current impasse, and, should the Round fail,they will all, of course, have their own excuses and blame everyone but themselves.
The recent IMF/World Bank annual meetings indicate that this is gradually being recognized, with emerging countries increasingly critical of China’s inflexibility.
Is there any reason to believe that excessive policy inflexibility works better in Europe?
The added inflexibility (or inelasticity) amplifies the price response to a real or perceived crop shortfall either in the US or elsewhere.
Latin America’s rapidly growing economies are particularly vulnerable, as they are forced to confront both China’s exchange-rate inflexibility and the impact of dollar devaluation arising from the US Federal Reserve’s expansionary monetary policy.
In part, these unfortunate outcomes reflect the inflexibility of China’s education system.
Moreover, the overstatement of the threat posed by Iran is also being used as a convenient excuse for political inflexibility and stagnating reform processes throughout the region.
Wage inflexibility, combined with the substitution effect exerted on the great majority of West European workers implies that eastern enlargement will cause a net loss of jobs in Western Europe, if the labor market remains as inflexible as it now is.
And Trump’s inflexibility at last year’s G20 summit in Buenos Aires resulted in the first communiqué that did not include a vow to resist protectionism.
Without that, “running down the clock” becomes “kicking the can down the road,” an ineffectual effort to shirk responsibility, reflecting May’s paradoxical character traits of robotic inflexibility and exasperating indecisiveness.
Once May’s negotiating strategy is properly understood, the EU’s rational response becomes obvious: total inflexibility on the Brexit deal’s substance, but removal of the Brexit deadline.
He was a native of the same colony with herself; and although his early military services, and her frequent visits to the family of her sister, and subsequent establishment at its head, had prevented their ever meeting, still she was familiar with his domestic virtues, and well knew that the rigid inflexibility for which his public acts were distinguished formed no part of his reputation in private life.