How To Use Inflexible In A Sentence

And the action, therefore, which Pliny denominated obstinacy, would, if it had been left to us to name it, have been called inflexible virtue, as arising out of a sense of the obligations imposed upon them by the Christian religion. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3
Because unions and management, alike, have been rigid and inflexible.
In this fituation, during the feveral great changes which happened in the courie of nine or ten weeks, particularly the refignation of the Duke of Grafton, and the appointment of Lord North in his room, he remained inflexible, though often in the interim prefTed Characters. Containing an Impartial Review of the Public Conduct and Abilities of the Most ...
The seven-year period is not totally inflexible.
I am trying to strike a balance between assertive and fair and stubborn and inflexible.

Members of it are clearly trying to preserve a minority religion in a hostile world, trying to work out where they can afford to compromise with the mainstream and where they must remain inflexible.
They're too robotic and inflexible - too dependent on having a single party line to defend - the simpler, the better.
His life had run so smoothly that he was habitually inflexible, and perhaps rather humourless. My Darling Heriott: Henrietta Luxborough, Poetic Gardener and Irrepressible Exile
The mouse slid nicely across the surface, without any real resistance, although perhaps not quite as smoothly as on a hard, inflexible plastic mousepad.
Despite the rebound, worries persist about the zone's inflexible labour market while economic stagnation in Germany is still a dark cloud hanging over the entire region.
What he found was that every bird in a particular species has certain inflexible patterns of behavior, reflex responses to very specific stimuli.
The new plastic is completely inflexible.
It would be a disaster for primary care and local services if these organisations became reincarnations of health authorities or developed into the inflexible hierarchical institutions that are hospital trusts.
Sugar triggers a process called glycosylation, which causes collagen to cross-link, with the result that the skin becomes stiff, inflexible, and discolored. THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET
In its approach, which may seem hard and inflexible, and which some think of as aprioristic, the Holy See is moved by its sense of duty as "Mater et Magistra", Mother and Teacher. The Papacy and the Challenge of the Modern World
His lifelong political enemy called him "the great incendiary" and a "master of the puppets", deplored his "obstinacy and inflexible disposition", and also accused him of "defalcation" a quaint expression for embezzlement. Dove's Eye View:
The inflexible central scheduling of over-the-air broadcast transmissions severely limited the usefulness of educational television programs in individual classrooms.
Both of them pleaded with the Council for the substitution of a milder mode of death; but the syndics were inflexible.
A illogical resolvent or implementation method of privilege management often make MIS complicated or inflexible.
We had a problem in Europe which was that the labour market was inflexible and it was costing jobs.
Performance management is weak; pay linked to performance is controversial; pay systems are inflexible and inflationary. Times, Sunday Times
Many of the problems stemmed from an inflexible accounting structure and cumbersome batch processing.
People who are more rigid and inflexible have more difficulty adapting, so you need to have lot of different kinds of skills in order to succeed?
Your vertebrae begin to grow together, forming vertical bony outgrowths and becoming stiff and inflexible.
Indeed an inflexible approach would be inconsistent with the terms of the statutory framework. Times, Sunday Times
Her parents had kept her on a tight rein with their narrow and inflexible views.
This approach is too inflexible and too costly.
The electoral system has been highjacked by two factions of the same party catering to elite interests, and fixated upon inflexible beliefs and policies suited to yesteryears problems.
The trouble is that the counterpart of high productivity is low employment because of the structure of French labour markets and the low level of consumer demand - labour markets that are even more inflexible than in Germany.
The contract is inflexible, whatever the circumstances.
Moreover, one may accept certain unanalysed kinds of coincidence-determination without committing oneself to the inflexible position that these kinds of coincidence-determination are unanalysable.
The prime minister has adopted an inflexible position on immigration.
The only action of verification proposed here is, in fact, the decision to believe with an unqualified commitment that rejects all doubt, said decision being based on entirely arbitrary and personal dispositions: the extent to which we see pattern in the world; the extent to which we read pattern as purpose; the extent to which we deny the possibility of unpurposed pattern; the extent to which we allow firm convictions to become inflexible by disacknowledging contingency. Archive 2010-03-01
A high reading suggests that a patient has stiff, inflexible arteries, Klassen says.
Neither threats nor promises could change his inflexible determination.
But contrary to what some have concluded, Carter was not one-dimensional, or inflexible. The Good Fight
Many European diplomats have bad memories of Mr. Samaras for what they called his inflexible, ultra-patriotic stances as foreign minister in theearly 1990s. Papandreou's Rival Throws a Lifeline—and an Anchor
He warned his bureaucrats to work as a team, and avoid inflexible planning. Times, Sunday Times
The tremendous moral power of this solitary work lies in the fact that it is a series of terrific and fascinating tableaux, embodying the idea of inflexible poetic justice impartially administered upon king and varlet, pope and beggar, oppressor and victim, projected amidst the unalterable necessities of eternity, and moving athwart the lurid abyss and the azure cope with an intense distinctness that sears the gazer's eyeballs. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
The fact that you did make some of the changes because they were good suggestions, as you wrote in your post, demonstrates that you're not inflexible (which is a very good trait!), and it will make your claim that you couldn't change "overdetermine" more convincing. Wired Campus
It may be uneconomic or too inflexible to implement in hardware all of a computer's instruction set.
Unfortunately, this often made him appear stubborn, inflexible, and difficult.
Projects are undertaken on a team basis and there is no rigid and inflexible formality. TOP MARKETING AND MEDIA COMPANIES IN THE UK
This brings me to the issue of organised labour in South Africa, which has been described as inflexible and a barrier to investment in some quarters. ANC Daily News Briefing
Keyes has been roundly ridiculed for his outspoken and inflexible conservatism.
The pants were stiff, inflexible, and suffered the same problem.
But Haig had persuasive arguments to support his inflexible resolve.
When added to naked DNA fragments that are too short and inflexible for cyclization, HMG proteins enhance unimolecular ligation into small circles.
It may be uneconomic or too inflexible to implement in hardware all of a computer's instruction set.
But we do not need an inflexible, suffocating and largely unaccountable institution which dictates every aspect of our lives.
Here is a man who counts it a virtue to be inflexible and to hold firm in the face of changing circumstances.
Often inflexible and stubborn in their love lives, some will be prone to jealous rages.
It also makes these people stubborn and inflexible, especially when it comes to their own convictions.
She denied that the Framework was too rigid or inflexible. Times, Sunday Times
Flexibility can be a delicate issue, particularly in a work unit with an inflexible boss.
Generally, dancers with inflexible feet prefer to cut off the shank in the instep near the heel.
He has an inflexible regime and must stick to a timetable of food and injections.
He's completely inflexible on the subject.
After the Emancipation Proclamation, the Union's strategic goals were too comprehensive and inflexible to be thwarted by a single defeat.
His attitude is inflexible.
The consequences of an inflexible retirement age fell particularly hard on women as they have a lower pension age.
Though this will be effective in theory, the difficulty is the centralised distribution of state finances - an inflexible system that often causes funding delays.
But we are likewise indeed far removed from the temper of three or four, even of one or two generations ago, in inflexible insistence that the inequality of classes shall preserve all its old ruthless consequence for individuals. The Present Challenge to British Imperialism
When investing long term, you need to steer clear of plans that are difficult to understand or packed with jargon, have high charges or are inflexible and lock you in with penalties.
Every thing concurred to signalize this, that God's name (that is, his incontestable sovereignty, his irresistible power, and his inflexible justice) might be declared throughout all the earth, not only to all places, but through all ages while the earth remains. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
Activity and achievement came with creation, and constitute an inflexible, irrepealable law of the universe. The Jericho Road
But his record shows he's anything but an inflexible browbeater, and there's a fine line between not standing for something and standing for nothing. Sahil Kapur: Obama Cannot Afford to Lose Progressives
First, the structure of the colonial revenue system - with its high and inflexible tax rates - drastically increased peasant vulnerability to drought.
The company's top-down management style made decision-making slow and inflexible.
But I do not want to be locked, to be inflexible and stubborn.
The other was 'a certain kind of liquid matter, which they call starch, wherein the devil hath willed them to wash and dye their ruffs well; and this starch they make of divers colours and hues -- white, red, blue, purple, and the like, which, being dry, will then stand stiff and inflexible about their necks. ' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852
The prime minister has adopted an inflexible position on immigration.
Under all his gentle suavities there was a fixed, inflexible will, a calm self-restraint, and a composed philosophical measurement of others, that fitted him to bear despotic rule over an impulsive, unguarded nature. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
The new plastic is completely inflexible.
an inflexible (or die-hard) conservative
Philip was a voluptuary, that is, a completely selfish egotist, whose disposition and character resembled the rapier he wore, polished, keen, and brilliant, but inflexible and unpitying. My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
A domain-specific dictionary may provide good performance within its own particular domain, but outside this its performance is brittle and inflexible.
The organisation may prove to be inflexible and unable to respond to changing circumstances. 4.
Pope become, even in the eyes of devout Catholics, that de Maistre called the inflexible but supine Pontiff a punchinello of no importance. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)
It is too inflexible, too costly, and too rigid.
Stubborn, inflexible and goal oriented, they often jump to conclusions and miss the big picture.
They accuse universities of being inflexible, inefficient, and unaccountable, and they view the tenure system as an impediment to effective university governance.
She had admired and esteemed Mr. Faulkland prodigiously; her vexation was the greater, in finding her expectations disappointed; and could I have been so unjust to the pretensions of another, or so indelicate in regard to myself, as to have overlooked Mr. Faulkland's fault, I knew my mother would be inflexible. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
The knight was bolted into a very heavy and largely inflexible armour equipped with a lance rest; jousting almost standing in his stirrups he was virtually impregnable - which was the idea.
Taureans, signified by the bull, were often described as obstinate and inflexible, while Pisceans could be risk-takers and daredevils.
an inflexible iron bar
The man who had ruled his country with a brutal and inflexible religious law was now ‘an absconder, a fugitive from justice’ he said.
In the name of international labor standards, arbitrary and inflexible trade sanctions will be imposed on Third World countries.
All this having been true to Burbank, if I caught his thought correctly, the great scientist's tolerant, yet withal inflexible, attitude toward those who were disparaging and excoriating him is entirely understandable.
And then there's the double irony, since the song itself is actually produced by choice and artistic freedom: ultimately, it is a product of flexibility, though it is inflexible itself.
If you had a strategy, it was rigid and inflexible.
Projects are undertaken on a team basis and there is no rigid and inflexible formality. TOP MARKETING AND MEDIA COMPANIES IN THE UK
Moreover, it has appeared that different species show a tendency to variability in special directions, and probably in different degrees, and that at any rate Mr. Darwin himself concedes the existence of an internal barrier to change when he credits the goose with "a singularly inflexible organization;" also, that he admits the presence of an _internal_ proclivity to change when he speaks of "a whole organization seeming to have become plastic, and tending to depart from the parental type. On the Genesis of Species
Cancers of the tongue tend to be painful and cause the tongue to feel unnaturally stiff and inflexible.
The per-process space available for environment variables is, however, limited, and a simple textual concatenation of attribute-value pairs is a fairly inflexible way to store data.
Although they sturdily protected public morals by preventing the sound of a toilet's flushing being heard on stage and routinely objected to bed scenes and bare flesh, they were neither infallible nor inflexible.
Many of the problems of inflexible economies and labour markets, and the problem of demographics (the working age population has ceased to grow) were already in existence before the euro was launched.
She becomes cognitively inflexible, and impaired information processing means that social cues are misread and the behaviour of others misinterpreted. Times, Sunday Times
The most inflexible form of racism holds that race is determined biologically.
Indeed an inflexible approach would be inconsistent with the terms of the statutory framework. Times, Sunday Times
He gazed earnestly and mournfully upon them, and when he entered his prison, again enquired concerning them, but the same inflexible silence was preserved on the subject. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story
It has neglected to build the structures, especially in budgetary policy, that would ease the pressures of an inflexible monetary union. Times, Sunday Times
Projects are undertaken on a team basis and there is no rigid and inflexible formality. TOP MARKETING AND MEDIA COMPANIES IN THE UK
Sagasta, who, to temporize with America, recalled the inflexible The Philippine Islands
Sugar triggers a process called glycosylation, which causes collagen to cross-link, with the result that the skin becomes stiff, inflexible, and discolored. THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET
Having inflexible, overly moralistic policies for dealing with those who deal in drugs may be unrealistic in this environment if there are other priorities.
What customers get is knowledge that is pre-packed, shallow, mass-produced and inflexible.
Unlike Great Gram's inflexible and resolutely unambivalent tales, Gram's story is about the difficulty of recollection, the fluid quality of experience, the changing nature of feelings.
Proponents and opponents have intense, inflexible and uncompromising opinions about abortion based on strong moral and/or civil liberties beliefs.
You can't accuse Susan Davies of being inflexible…
Far gone are the days of PVC where in order to keep dry you would need to be swathed in restrictive, heavy, and inflexible plastic rain slickers.
Mark turned his hard eyes toward the elder, and seemed to congeal into something inflexible, impenetrable, as if he had suddenly let down a cold sheet iron door between his soul and them, against which the words, like shot or pebbles, rattled sharp and unharming and fell in a shower at the feet of the speaker. The City of Fire
Such a comment betrays an inflexible narrow-minded misunderstanding of our enemies and how to combat them.
Admiral Carden was given the new superdreadnought Queen Elizabeth with eight 15-inch guns, the battle cruiser Inflexible with eight 12-inch guns, and twelve British and four French predreadnought battleships carrying a total of fifty-six 12-inch and eight 10-inch guns. Castles of Steel
Inflexible physical laws are necessary; their very inflexibility is divine order; but 'what law cannot do, in that it is weak through the flesh, God did by sending his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh.' Oldtown Folks
Even after dismissing the foggy notion of ‘free will,’ few cognitive thinkers consider us automata driven by inflexible genes.
Re #196: "The amount of energy generated by the solar cells only reaches the amount of energy used to make the cells after two and a half years (on average) Installing solar cells involves an inflexible investment with long term breakeven in CO2 emissions and in dollar terms. RealClimate
Siebel specialises in fairly inflexible vertical market products, while Oracle has an array of customisable horizontal CRM systems.
But others berate him as an inflexible tub-thumper who harangues his charges and treats adults like children.
At last, British racing has shed its inflexible approach to bad weather. Times, Sunday Times
The prime minister has adopted an inflexible position on immigration.
The amount of energy generated by the solar cells only reaches the amount of energy used to make the cells after two and a half years (on average) Installing solar cells involves an inflexible investment with long term breakeven in CO2 emissions and in dollar terms. RealClimate
The pants were stiff, inflexible, and suffered the same problem.
And I am not in favour of employers who are inflexible with regard to allowing people to go to Sunday worship.
As we know, this emanation of virtue would in time cause Robespierre and his followers to lose their heads under the severe and inflexible blade of the guillotine.
It appears that the Lord Advocate is being more inflexible than we had expected.
And it's not surprising that governments make inflexible stands in circumstances such as these relating to children.
The seven-year period is not totally inflexible.
a man of inflexible purpose
Your vertebrae begin to grow together, forming vertical bony outgrowths and becoming stiff and inflexible.
The department chair described her as inflexible, defensive, and unwilling to take constructive advice.
He claimed increasing bureaucracy, such as inflexible laws governing working hours, could have as-yet unseen consequences for business and investment.
The company's top-down management style made decision-making slow and inflexible.
As a result, the Developer is inclined to blame the Planner as one who is inflexible and who seems to delight in impeding the speedy fulfilment of vital economic decisions. Metropolitan TorontoPlanners Dilemma
Neither threats nor promises could change his inflexible determination.
The prime minister has adopted an inflexible position on immigration.
Too often we deliver services that are inflexible and fail to take account of real need.
That said, the Cleveland performances were oddly disappointing: inflexible, poker-faced, and without a hint of the sensuous rubato that gives this music its infectious lilt.
Projects are undertaken on a team basis and there is no rigid and inflexible formality. TOP MARKETING AND MEDIA COMPANIES IN THE UK
Flexibility can be a delicate issue, particularly in a work unit with an inflexible boss.
People over 35 were thought to be ‘too inflexible and unwilling to learn’.
I like it because it isn't inflexible; it has a woolly appeal for those of us with a woollier mind. Times, Sunday Times
an inflexible law
The long duration of their wars, and their inflexible adherence to their purpose, are to be ranked among the foremost destroyers of the human species.
She denied that the Framework was too rigid or inflexible. Times, Sunday Times
At 12 and not having splits is kind of late, and you get more inflexible as you get older," coach Mark Williams says. USATODAY.com - Determination takes Young from underdog to Olympics
It is virtually impossible to live and work under such an inflexible administrative system. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
When they're cold, they're stiff and inflexible, and forcibly stretching them could lead to injury or strains.
If this account is too inflexible, there are alternatives with restricted access, such as notice or postal accounts. Times, Sunday Times
The inner portion of the wing hardly moved at all, yet the primaries seemed to quiver, making the wing look stiff and inflexible.
The rules are too inflexible to allow for human error.
Normal red blood cells are round and pliable, but in persons with sickle cell anemia these cells become firm and inflexible.
There are better things - deeper and more resonant themes, and more complex and more enriching ideas - which can't or shouldn't be shoehorned into this inflexible storytelling model.
This can become a poisoned chalice in the case of a corporate merger or acquisition, in that the suitor may not be willing to take on the risk of off-loading inflexible leases.
The tsar, it is stated, has proclaimed Russia's "inflexible resolve to support the interests of her Slav brothers".
And realising the truth made me something my mother was not - absolutely resolute and inflexible.
Both sides tend to adopt inflexible, judgmental and defensive attitudes toward one another.
For I felt certain that whatever it was that they professed, their contumacy and inflexible obstinancy obviously demanded punishment. The Roman Empire, the Early Christian Martyrs and a Thought about the Martyrology
An inflexible innate preference for the color blue, for instance, could mean death for a butterfly that emerged from its chrysalis in a meadow filled with yellow and pink flowers.
She denied that the Framework was too rigid or inflexible. Times, Sunday Times
There can be no sport more regulated, and no sport more hidebound by an inflexible adherence to the rule book.
It is virtually impossible to live and work under such an inflexible administrative system. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
The Cleveland performances were oddly disappointing: inflexible, poker-faced, and without a hint of the sensuous rubato that gives this music its infectious lilt.
An inflexible approach could lead to reforms failing unnecessarily - reforms that have real potential to drive up standards and drive down costs. Times, Sunday Times
For example, there are not only such obvious things as the brand and collar, and the distinctive garbing of the slave, or the lack of garbing, but, far more significantly, the extreme closeness of the society, with its scrutiny of strangers, and the general nature of an uncompromising and inflexible enforcement of, her condition. Magicians of Gor
Another hazard in dealing with inattentive children is treating them in a mechanical and inflexible manner.
You see in his face an extraordinary mingling of the peasant, the visionary, and the dandy: the long hair and beard, the sensitive mouth and nose, the fierce brooding eyes, in which wildness and delicacy, strength and a kind of stealthiness, seem to be grafted on an inflexible peasant stock. Figures of Several Centuries
She denied that the Framework was too rigid or inflexible. Times, Sunday Times
The cabmen of Paris form a distinct class, a separate society, composed of all sorts of elements -- a turbulent, indocile, rebellious set of men, always in revolt against their employers and against the law, which holds them with an iron and inflexible grasp. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
As we know, this emanation of virtue would in time cause Robespierre and his followers to lose their heads under the severe and inflexible blade of the guillotine.
In the past they too often faced long waits and inflexible systems. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed an inflexible approach would be inconsistent with the terms of the statutory framework. Times, Sunday Times
Her parents had kept her on a tight rein with their narrow and inflexible views.
The important lesson is that an inflexible dogmatic approach to equity investing will end in tears whatever it may be.
Of course, the role of rhythm and metre in Classical and Romantic music is much more than the mere mechanical preservation of an inflexible beat with an unvaried emphasis at the beginning of every bar, or multiple of two, four, or eight bars.
Mandibles clacked m a gesture of interest and understanding, since the insect's inflexible chitonous face allowed for nothing as robbery as a smile. Orphan Star
The Scottish funding structure is totally inflexible, and doesn't make any sense.
They saw that our business was suffering because our plant's manufacturing capability was by its nature inflexible, cumbersome and slow.
Taureans, signified by the bull, were often described as obstinate and inflexible, while Pisceans could be risk-takers and daredevils.
With full-time schedules, inflexible hours and only minimal help from their husbands, the exhilaration of having it all turned to exhaustion, and then to anger, a kind of postfeminist backlash among some of the women themselves. Mommy Vs. Mommy
The new rules won't affect so-called inflexible expenditures, such as subsidies for local government, social insurance and debt service, which can't be altered without additional legislation. BusinessWeek.com --
ORION humans, wisdom, genius, inflexible , cordial and solidarity – is the most precious fortune of ORION.
He says he had ordered for execution such as persevered in their profession after repeated warnings, "as not doubting, whatever it was they professed, that at any rate contumacy and inflexible obstinacy ought to be punished. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
The vast chitonous shape scuttled further into the diffuse blue light supplied by the bubble, advancing on half a dozen short, inflexible legs. A Call to Arms
The fat intake is so low in his diet that many find the food choices inflexible and unpalatable.
Union ought to be impeached, and in his "Recollections," and in one of his published letters to the present Lord Carlingford, he has expressed in the strongest terms his inflexible hostility to Home Rule. Lord John Russell
Projects are undertaken on a team basis and there is no rigid and inflexible formality. TOP MARKETING AND MEDIA COMPANIES IN THE UK
The same could be true of the Gamma Pad, as they're both constructed of inflexible hard and thick plastic.
This is a failure of parenting and education, but also of an inflexible youth justice system. Times, Sunday Times
This is a failure of parenting and education, but also of an inflexible youth justice system. Times, Sunday Times
When you disagree with her or won't go along with something she wants to do, she's completely inflexible and unwilling to compromise.
If teenage period appears grow logy , expression inflexible, complexion bad, love falls ill wait for a circumstance, want to notice to seek an account from food.
Around 365 practices across Scotland have signed up to the project, known as the Scottish Primary Care Collaborative, sparking fears that thousands of patients are being hit by the inflexible system.
Neither threats nor promises could change his inflexible determination.
If this account is too inflexible, there are alternatives with restricted access, such as notice or postal accounts. Times, Sunday Times
If so, he betrayed an inflexible conformance with previously established plans, an inability to seize advantage of unpredicted breaks.
_ "hagiocracy," _ of the supreme influence of the priesthood and the rigid adherence to the law, with an inflexible hostility to heathen customs, ensued. Outline of Universal History
Projects are undertaken on a team basis and there is no rigid and inflexible formality. TOP MARKETING AND MEDIA COMPANIES IN THE UK
The City Force as an organization was too inflexible to oppose successfully.
an inflexible knife blade

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