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. |
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Throughout the 2-year conversion to a Stryker Brigade, the toughest part of Transformation was fighting an inflexible bureaucratic system. |
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If so, he betrayed an inflexible conformance with previously established plans, an inability to seize advantage of unpredicted breaks. |
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Second, the symposium emphasized the importance of studying the physiological and endocrinological mechanisms of relatively inflexible phases. |
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And I am not in favour of employers who are inflexible with regard to allowing people to go to Sunday worship. |
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Here is a man who counts it a virtue to be inflexible and to hold firm in the face of changing circumstances. |
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I am trying to strike a balance between assertive and fair and stubborn and inflexible. |
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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? |
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The department chair described her as inflexible, defensive, and unwilling to take constructive advice. |
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Stubborn, inflexible and goal oriented, they often jump to conclusions and miss the big picture. |
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When you disagree with her or won't go along with something she wants to do, she's completely inflexible and unwilling to compromise. |
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Often inflexible and stubborn in their love lives, some will be prone to jealous rages. |
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Unfortunately, this often made him appear stubborn, inflexible, and difficult. |
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It appears that the Lord Advocate is being more inflexible than we had expected. |
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It also makes these people stubborn and inflexible, especially when it comes to their own convictions. |
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As a result of this, clients perceived Spoornet as being unpunctual, inflexible and costly. |
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The Scottish funding structure is totally inflexible, and doesn't make any sense. |
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But we do not need an inflexible, suffocating and largely unaccountable institution which dictates every aspect of our lives. |
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After the Emancipation Proclamation, the Union's strategic goals were too comprehensive and inflexible to be thwarted by a single defeat. |
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He has an inflexible regime and must stick to a timetable of food and injections. |
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Too often we deliver services that are inflexible and fail to take account of real need. |
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And it's not surprising that governments make inflexible stands in circumstances such as these relating to children. |
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We had a problem in Europe which was that the labour market was inflexible and it was costing jobs. |
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Janice was fairly stiff and inflexible, with a bad back, so the movements were geared to her level of ability. |
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Cancers of the tongue tend to be painful and cause the tongue to feel unnaturally stiff and inflexible. |
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The same could be true of the Gamma Pad, as they're both constructed of inflexible hard and thick plastic. |
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When they're cold, they're stiff and inflexible, and forcibly stretching them could lead to injury or strains. |
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A high reading suggests that a patient has stiff, inflexible arteries, Klassen says. |
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The inner portion of the wing hardly moved at all, yet the primaries seemed to quiver, making the wing look stiff and inflexible. |
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Normal red blood cells are round and pliable, but in persons with sickle cell anemia these cells become firm and inflexible. |
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The fat intake is so low in his diet that many find the food choices inflexible and unpalatable. |
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Such a comment betrays an inflexible narrow-minded misunderstanding of our enemies and how to combat them. |
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Keyes has been roundly ridiculed for his outspoken and inflexible conservatism. |
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Both sides tend to adopt inflexible, judgmental and defensive attitudes toward one another. |
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Generally, dancers with inflexible feet prefer to cut off the shank in the instep near the heel. |
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Sir Charles Bunbury called on her, and insisted on walking out with her, and became rather particular, but our heroine was inflexible. |
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What customers get is knowledge that is pre-packed, shallow, mass-produced and inflexible. |
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The most inflexible form of racism holds that race is determined biologically. |
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In the name of international labor standards, arbitrary and inflexible trade sanctions will be imposed on Third World countries. |
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Taureans, signified by the bull, were often described as obstinate and inflexible, while Pisceans could be risk-takers and daredevils. |
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What he found was that every bird in a particular species has certain inflexible patterns of behavior, reflex responses to very specific stimuli. |
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Many meat processors in the state feel that the USDA inspection service is inflexible and insensitive to their needs. |
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Your vertebrae begin to grow together, forming vertical bony outgrowths and becoming stiff and inflexible. |
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There can be no sport more regulated, and no sport more hidebound by an inflexible adherence to the rule book. |
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Bureaucracies are generally too inflexible and hierarchical to allow the learning organization to flourish. |
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Siebel specialises in fairly inflexible vertical market products, while Oracle has an array of customisable horizontal CRM systems. |
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First, Soviet industry and workforce proved remarkable adaptable for a command economy long regarded as inherently inefficient and inflexible. |
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An inflexible rule protecting such uses would in effect allow the creation of servitudes. |
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The important lesson is that an inflexible dogmatic approach to equity investing will end in tears whatever it may be. |
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They accuse universities of being inflexible, inefficient, and unaccountable, and they view the tenure system as an impediment to effective university governance. |
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Liberated from overstressing our backs, we suffer from weak and inflexible backs. |
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He claimed increasing bureaucracy, such as inflexible laws governing working hours, could have as-yet unseen consequences for business and investment. |
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When two people have to work late, who will meet that inflexible day-care pickup time? |
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His parenting skills were described as poor and he as being rigid, inflexible, confrontational and a poor influence on C.T. as she reverted to baby talk when she was with him. |
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The pants were stiff, inflexible, and suffered the same problem. |
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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. |
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The mouse slid nicely across the surface, without any real resistance, although perhaps not quite as smoothly as on a hard, inflexible plastic mousepad. |
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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. |
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East Asian networks provide mutual support and focused industrial development, but have created unsound financial systems and inflexible business conditions. |
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A proliferation of fuel specifications has been imposed on an inflexible distribution system, reducing the global and regional fungibility of refined oil products. |
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Having inflexible, overly moralistic policies for dealing with those who deal in drugs may be unrealistic in this environment if there are other priorities. |
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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. |
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I believe this problem, however, is greatly overdiagnosed by sports orthopedists, who are used to treating inflexible football players rather than flexible swimmers. |
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But I do not want to be locked, to be inflexible and stubborn. |
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Many of the problems of inflexible economies and labour markets, and the problem of demographics were already in existence before the euro was launched. |
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Her adherence to conventionally inflexible distinctions signals her rigidity and demonstrates her failure to adapt successfully to her new surroundings. |
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Even in a small suburban committee, the inflexible zealot, the resourceful opportunist and the passive collaborator are never really equal in judgment or influence. |
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Because unions and management, alike, have been rigid and inflexible. |
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But daycare is still expensive, inflexible and patchily provided, and the statistics indicate that working motherhood is less common than it might be assumed. |
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When added to naked DNA fragments that are too short and inflexible for cyclization, HMG proteins enhance unimolecular ligation into small circles. |
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They're rigid and inflexible and hopeless and just plain cuhrayzee. |
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The ethical teaching of Jesus is thereby transformed into an inflexible nomism. |
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Some may be concerned that a system along these lines would be inflexible. |
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Works of music are, on his view, abstract, eternal, incomposite and temporally and modally inflexible. |
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Revenue from the royal demesne was inflexible and had been diminishing slowly since the Norman conquest. |
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Otherwise, the largely inflexible nature of this social stratification system unleashed disruptive forces over time. |
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As between clear, but inflexible rules on the one hand and flexible, but unguiding rules on the other, where should the balance be struck? |
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The name of Dominations means a firm and inflexible government, which is shown in determining the things that are to be done. |
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New saddles, which were inflexible and bent, were put over the humps and divided the rider's weight over the animal. |
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It served as a way for capitalists and workers to bypass the guild system, which was thought to be cumbersome and inflexible. |
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The book focused on determinants of national income in the short run when prices are relatively inflexible. |
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However, mass production is inflexible because it is difficult to alter a design or production process after a production line is implemented. |
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A sculptor's ideas must, I should guess, be somewhat rigid and inflexible, like the materials in which he works. Besides, Nollekens's style was comparatively hard and edgy. |
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Most family lawyers feel that a simple formulaic approach would prove too rigid and inflexible to account for all cases and would produce unjust results. |
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Engineers have traditionally used polished granite surface plates to establish a plane of reference, since they are relatively impervious and inflexible. |
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