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"inflexibility" Definitions
  1. (disapproving) the fact that something cannot be changed or made more suitable for a particular situation synonym rigidity (1)
  2. (disapproving) the attitude of a person or organization that refuses to change their opinions, decisions, etc., or the way they do things
  3. the fact that a material is difficult or impossible to bend synonym rigidity (3), stiffness opposite flexibility
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The inflexibility of the Chinese script has always reinforced the inflexibility of the Chinese state.
Defy their expectation with a powerful display of your inflexibility.
The inflexibility that makes them fearsome also makes them brittle.
And that inflexibility codifies our economic classes into social classes.
Some inflexibility arrives this afternoon, but helpful energy flows the evening.
I see it as a testament to the inflexibility of voters.
In all these cases, a certain inflexibility exists in the brain.
Entire social movements have arisen to protest the inflexibility of currency.
This does not mean inflexibility or an excuse to be lazy.
Sometimes games will try to obscure this inflexibility behind smoke or mirrors.
The system's inflexibility also makes it harder to integrate older immigrant children.
You could also credit that to a certain inflexibility in Silver's style.
It became for them the ultimate symbol of Chinese arrogance and inflexibility.
Much like the inflexibility of circumstance, there is precious little bend here.
Just as extreme inflexibility can lead to problems, so can extreme flexibility.
Another cause was the inflexibility of monetary policy due to the gold standard.
"There may be issues of stubbornness or inflexibility to work through," she says.
Such inflexibility has done little to damage her standing in the art world.
Sanders's dogmatic inflexibility is also his strength with the kids — He's so authentic!
As far as Kiarash is concerned, that inflexibility is driving away Iran's brightest students.
Despite Rashford's talent, his inflexibility would see him suffer the same fate as Sanchez.
Although I understood the source of my mother's bitterness and inflexibility, our difficulties persisted.
"It's not necessarily that all inflexibility comes from the muscle itself being tight," he said.
But, again, there are some serious drawbacks lurking in the shadows: inflexibility, obstinacy, and rigidity.
The state's inflexibility in part reflected the wishes of the man who had fought Siatta.
But such technologies have proven tricky to integrate, given the inflexibility of the underlying protocols.
Just weeks later, Iowa withdrew its waiver application citing the inflexibility of the waiver process.
One of the great difficulties with trade agreements is the relative inflexibility as circumstances change.
In response to such discrimination and inflexibility, some boomers try their luck in the gig economy.
Still, the Trump administration's ham-handedness, inflexibility and unpredictability have hampered progress toward a trade deal.
Nobody emerges well from the sorry tale of arrogance, inflexibility and even violence in Catalonia (see article).
Addressing the inflexibility of the cost base will be key to improving operating leverage in challenging markets.
Their inflexibility makes it awfully difficult to get anything out of the House, let alone the Senate.
But, like previous reforms, they do not in themselves address the structural inflexibility in the labour market.
You'll learn a little something about the importance of stretching — and feel a little better about your inflexibility.
He's an object lesson in the danger of slavish artistic inflexibility, yet also something of an aspirational figure.
Adding further inflexibility, the time-off system deducts a full hour if workers arrive more than five minutes late.
The big advantage of the cash prize is flexibility, but let's not underrate the value of the annuity's inflexibility.
His grief for his murdered son and the subsequent dissolution of his marriage have further fixed his natural inflexibility.
Democrats see gun violence prevention—and the inflexibility of the NRA-GOP alliance—as providing a stark, motivating choice.
Now isn't the time for inflexibility—invite Gemini energy into your life by seeing all sides to your story.
The industry was destined for disruption by software that would replace overhead costs and inflexibility with direct-to-consumer personalization.
He took office vowing to end what he has portrayed as British deference in the face of vindictive European inflexibility.
Their disruptive behavior in the office is due to their extreme inflexibility and inability to communicate well with fellow employees.
A combination of lobbying and ideological inflexibility has made it impossible for Congress to pass good federal privacy and cybersecurity legislation.
The idea of a gold standard has long attracted a fringe element among conservatives enamored of its simplicity and its inflexibility.
Rail's high costs and inflexibility explain why more than a thousand American cities replaced streetcars with buses between 1910 and 85033.
Within hours of the latest round of talks formally starting on Friday, Canada was complaining about inflexibility by the United States.
Keep him, and the long-term outlook turns cloudy with inflexibility, but at least they're assured of being good a while longer.
Carhart-Harris hopes that certain drugs—including psychedelics—can be used to "reboot" the brain as a way to remove this inflexibility.
People who actively try to dispose of digital materials relating to their recent romantic breakup are confronted with the inflexibility of deletion.
The strict regime became the talk of the city's more than 24 million residents, who criticized the program's inflexibility and confusing waste categorization.
The Sun meets Mercury retrograde at 1:47 PM, which indicates that we'll be dealing with some communication issues—watch out for inflexibility.
The movie challenges, in a satirical way, our inflexibility to accept other points of view, specifically around the notion that you should be married.
The challenge the show faces is that Sheldon is known for his inflexibility, but the show itself needs to move around a bit more.
The standard "astronaut stance" indicative of the inflexibility of the Apollo suits should be all but eliminated with the new freedoms afforded xEMU users.
To overcome this frustrating inflexibility, a team of researchers from MIT devised a system that essentially teaches robots how to assess unfamiliar objects for themselves.
All of the sneakers I tried on had the first-wear inflexibility of shoes, and the leather began to visibly crack with the first steps.
At the time, this inflexibility was considered a crucial bulwark against the pressure that would be brought by politically powerful industries, like logging and drilling.
The relative inflexibility of Saudi Aramco's marketing of its crude oil may well be hindering its efforts to grow, or even maintain market share in Asia.
Partisan gridlock, ideological inflexibility, growing distrust and polarization have essentially paralyzed traditional nation-states — rendering them often unwilling or unable to solve our increasingly urgent problems.
Is the explanation, therefore, to be found in the inflexibility of people's speeds, their determination to travel at the same pace no matter where they are?
Despite its inflexibility, limited benefits, and slapdash structure, one good thing to be said about Express is its relatively high pay—estimated to be $15 per hour.
He has been frustrated in the past with the inflexibility of air delivery systems, and felt that drones represent an obvious solution to the last-mile problem.
Gavin Newsom of California, who ran on a single-payer platform in 2018 and has cited federal inflexibility as a key obstacle toward delivering on that promise.
He sees a current political and legislative climate marked by a certain inflexibility and intransigence that is not conducive to compromise and ends with little being accomplished.
I don't think he ever said 'I refuse to do that,' because that suggests a tone of intolerance and inflexibility," Kelly Rippon said on CNN's "New Day.
The combination of European Union inflexibility and British incompetence means that however, and whenever, Britain finally exits, it is likely to be on the European Union's terms.
This inflexibility is a hard financial reality of someone who is no longer able to work and is reliant on means other than labor to make ends meet.
First, autocracies' fundamental weaknesses and inflexibility will continue to make them fragile and prone to regular, popular attempts to stretch individual freedoms beyond what their government systems can sustain.
Efforts to promote the yuan on the international stage have actually "gone backwards", in some respects, as a result of inflexibility and efforts to stop capital outflows, he said.
Her latest piece examines the upside of inflexibility: "Colleges use different parts of the strategy and give it different names, although it often goes by 'guided pathways,'" Rosenberg writes.
Regulators rightly want to make sure consumers are adequately protected, while also ensuring that new opportunities for those same people are not snuffed out by bureaucratic inertia or inflexibility.
Kim could be planning to exit talks in a huff, blaming the American president's inflexibility for their collapse — and hoping the South Korean president and public would take his side.
Inflexibility in such laws has backfired in a huge way, as has been clear for so long in tens of thousands of convictions for nonviolent crimes swelling American prison populations.
Europe, for example, often gets criticised for its economic inflexibility—particularly in the labour market, where the difficulty of firing workers makes companies reluctant to hire them in the first place.
Tesla leaned heavily into online vehicle sales, however, due in part to its unwillingness to work with independent dealer partners, and to the inflexibility of state laws that protect that system.
"If (May) shows the same condescension and inflexibility, the same tin ear, to other EU countries as she has to Scotland then the Brexit process will hit the rocks," Sturgeon said.
Letter To the Editor: Re "Inflexibility of Senator Stymies Ex-Im Bank" (Business Day, June 28): I served as a Republican appointee to the Export-Import Bank from 1994 to 1999.
I'll remember the unbudging stubbornness, the infuriating inflexibility and the fatalistic idealism that have characterised late-era Wenger, with far greater clarity than I'll remember his radical years as the pioneering Professeur.
Some fellow House Republicans have also criticized members of the conservative group, accusing them of inflexibility that led to the downfall of the bill to replace "Obamacare," a top GOP legislative priority.
" Film directors have sometimes struggled when they've turned to opera, daunted by its inflexibility of tempo, the impossibility of postproduction editing and the challenges of large choruses, including in "The Pearl Fishers.
Before the market-based reforms of the mid-2000s, Australia was one of the most regulated economies in the world, and the inflexibility of the system made it vulnerable to global setbacks.
The fact that Sandoval is mostly pro-choice probably makes him anathema to Republicans anyway, which the White House can use to make the case that the GOP's inflexibility is the problem here.
The "seeming inflexibility" refers to Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's early October remarks that indicated a more aggressive path for rates in 2019 and December comments that the balance-sheet runoff was on autopilot.
Even the title of Hayden's article hints at the shortsightedness of American drone policy and the apparent inflexibility of our intelligence apparatus: in order to "keep America safe," she must embrace drone warfare.
At the same time, she undid geometry's inflexibility and optical purity — at least as Frank Stella manifested it in his celebrated paintings — clearing a field in which unruliness and awkwardness can become manifest.
The inflexibility of the law, at least temporarily, is what feels so disorienting and soul-corroding — it robs us of the opportunity to connect that is implicit in the notion of personal space.
The Commission's latest round of hearings is focusing on the declining access to banking services in the country's rural areas and the inflexibility of lenders towards farm-specific challenges like weather and trade disputes.
Critics say Lopez does not seem to understand that politics is the art of compromise, and complain that her inflexibility will ruin the livelihoods of over one million people as jobs are wiped out.
Regency, psychopaths, wedding planners, ranchers, sadists, grandmas, bordellos, dukes (of course); whips, fish tacos, entails, Down syndrome, recipes, orgasms — romance can absorb them all, which suggests it's a healthy genre, not trapped in inflexibility.
For Sisi, who rose as a creature of the system, the response to the Metrojet crisis was essentially to step back and allow the government to follow its instinctive course of defensiveness, denial, and inflexibility.
In the 2000s, Amazon, dissatisfied with the inflexibility of UPS and FedEx, for whom Amazon was just one of a long line of customers, started experimenting with using small and regional carriers to deliver packages.
But keep in mind, those laws can always be changed — and they can create inflexibility, making it impossible to move to a more suitable home in the same location without seeing a steep rise in rent.
LONDON (Reuters) - Fears of inflexibility and rising costs are sapping enthusiasm for the London Metal Exchange's new suite of gold contracts, potentially leaving the exchange reliant on the threat of an increasing regulatory burden to drive uptake.
Aside from poor health, the reason why is obvious: There's not nearly enough spacing or anything close to a defined pecking order on the offensive end, while exploiting them on defense shouldn't be too hard, given their inflexibility.
Both the students and the professors say they were misled about the inflexibility of the deadline, and some were told by members of the administration to hold off on paying the deposit until financial aid packets were completed.
In the '90s, though there were a limited number of them, for-profit or technical schools were a good avenue to learn career skills in a school setting without the inflexibility of attending a traditional four-year university.
MEXICO CITY, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Talks to update the North American Free Trade Agreement appeared to be in danger of grinding toward a stalemate amid complaints of U.S. negotiators' inflexibility, people familiar with the process said on Sunday.
But I do think it's important to acknowledge its existence, rather than taking a kind of comfort, as some conservative Catholics do, in being accused of Total Inflexibility in Defense of Absolute Truth by writers like Damon Linker.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A key round of talks to update the NAFTA trade pact formally opened on Friday, but within hours Canada was complaining about inflexibility by the United States, which is demanding big changes, a union leader said.
The collection somehow managed to honor our blue-collar history, our white-collar ambitions, our folk roots, and our cultural flexibility, but also our blue-collar future, our white-collar cynicism, our dying folk values, and our political inflexibility.
Beyond the specific practical difficulties, the reluctance to even contemplate winning a majority until after the next round of redistricting reflects a certain combination of ideological inflexibility and partisan insecurity that makes a bad look for the Democratic Party.
That willingness to talk endlessly over legal reforms is in contrast to what many Belgians see as an inflexibility by Rajoy to accept changing Spain's 1978 post-dictatorship constitution — and hence to negotiate a more devolved status for Catalonia.
As Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain have slid into debt crises in recent years, they have accused Germany of self-serving inflexibility in demanding strict adherence to debt limits while refusing to transfer wealth to those in trouble.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece wants to end a standoff with its lenders through 'honest compromise', its finance minister said, indicating a willingness to give ground on reform, but he warned that inflexibility on their part could inflame anti-establishment sentiment in Europe.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Sunday that inflexibility on the part of the United States was to blame for the lack of a bilateral meeting between Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump during a summit in Vietnam.
The very essence of his politics is inflexibility about this sort of thing; one acquired over decades of brain-desiccating hours spent in lefty talking-shops where the same dusty people make the same dusty arguments and everyone agrees with everything else.
By that time, McDonnell had decided she didn't want to return to the inflexibility of corporate life and had started her own consulting business as an executive coach and was teaching an online leadership course for the American College of Financial Services.
Such worries have further been reinforced by the Taliban's inflexibility, exemplified by comments from their chief negotiator, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, who in a recent interview claimed that the future of the country will be controlled by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
Even then, Jamison does not confront the way that this inflexibility arises from the foundation of A.A. doctrine: not merely the belief in abstinence but the suspicion of autonomy that is embedded in the idea of turning our lives over to a higher power.
This is a drawback to an art practice that relies essentially on permutations of the same formula for an entire career; there are hits and misses, but also a certain inflexibility in responding to change and the passage of time — ironic, given his subject matter.
Think about travel startups, ride-hailing upstarts, and any grouping of private companies that pursued a high-burn, high-growth model; that final category is about to run into the twin issues of the inflexibility of cost structure and the impact of slowing sales.
The North's chief nuclear negotiator, Kim Myong Gil, who spent much of the day in talks with an American delegation, cast the blame on what he portrayed as U.S. inflexibility, saying the other side's negotiators would not "give up their old viewpoint and attitude".
The moon is in chatty air sign Gemini today, and communication planet Mercury enters focused (and let's be honest, stubborn) earth sign Taurus at 2:25 PM. Expect some inflexibility while Mercury spends time in Taurus—but take advantage of the boost in patience that arrives, too.
Perhaps in a sign of a polarized age, lawyers appear to be increasingly concerned that opinions mean inflexibility, leading them to seek jurors who not only have no viewpoints on the case, but also little exposure to the subject matter, and who don't follow the news.
Although Wallack said that he wouldn't expand on Frankel's "provocations, inflexibility" and "need for attention," he alleged that the mother of one and her team want the court to believe the former couple is so hostile with each other that they need to throw out the old agreement.
A provocative paper Vicarious presented in 2017 at a leading deep learning conference illustrates its approach to AI. The company designed experiments that exposed the inflexibility of deep learning software from Alphabet's DeepMind research group that learned to play vintage Atari games such as Breakout better than top gamers.
In pointed remarks after an ill-tempered week of talks in Brussels, Michel Barnier insisted he would not be intimidated by what he called a "blame game" from London of accusing the EU of inflexibility in rejecting British demands for close cooperation on security, trade and other issues after Brexit.
Barnier also criticized British officials for accusing the EU of inflexibility that would leave gaps in cooperation on security and other areas which would hurt both sides: "I see the temptation of a 'blame game' by which the European Union is responsible for the negative consequences of Brexit," he said.
The abrupt failure of the GOP effort to repeal Obamacare, after months of halting progress, confronts Republicans with a basic choice between decency and nihilism: Will bitter partisanship and ideological inflexibility drive them to use the levers of government to vandalize the health care system, now fully under their control?
Diplomatic realignment can go only so far, and the more triumphant Damascus feels the harder it may be for Russia to deliver "a de-escalatory path," said Mr. Hanna, who favors United States-Russia talks to reach a political solution but says the main obstacle is the Syrian government's inflexibility.
"Too little and too late now — Carrie Lam's response comes after 7 lives sacrificed, more than 1,200 protestors arrested, in which many are mistreated in police station," protest leader Joshua Wong tweeted Wednesday, referencing a spate of suicides attributed Beijing's inflexibility and adding that protesters are unlikely to see Lam's move as sincere.
Earlier this month, the United States and North Korea held their first working-level talks since a failed summit in February between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but the North Koreans accused the U.S. side of inflexibility and have yet to say if they will attend another round.
Earlier this month, the United States and North Korea held their first working-level talks since a failed summit in February between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but the North Koreans accused the U.S. side of inflexibility and have yet to say if they will attend another round.
As we have moved on to more disaggregated harms and harder-to-see problems, such as greenhouse-gas emissions, the limits of the 20th-century strategies—high costs, inflexibility, over-reliance on the federal government as the key actor in pollution control and lack of incentives for innovation—have become more evident.
In court earlier this week, Hoppy's attorney Robert Wallack said that he wouldn't expand on Frankel's "provocations, inflexibility" and "need for attention," but alleged that the mother of one and her team want the court to believe the former couple is so hostile with each other that they need to throw out the old custody agreement.
"The Prime Minister's attitude should worry all of us hoping that negotiations with Europe will not be a disaster because - and let me put this bluntly - if she shows the same condescension and inflexibility, the same tin ear, to other EU countries as she has to Scotland then the Brexit process will hit the rocks," Sturgeon told her Scottish National Party (SNP) conference.
The balance sheet is still running off, and the stock market has recovered in the first quarter," Dudley told CNBC's Steve Liesman, in an interview from the annual conference of the National Association of Business Economics in Washington, D.C. "It was a convenient whipping boy; the Fed's seeming inflexibility in the space of all these market developments for a while was a convenient whipping boy.
"They want to create the impression that the cause of the impasse is the inflexibility of the U.S. side - and they likely want to force the United States to either come back with a more favorable negotiating position or eventually force President Trump to engage at the summit level to keep diplomacy alive," said Mintaro Oba, a former U.S. State Department official specializing in the Koreas.
Counter to the conventional narrative that success of top performers can solely be explained by deliberate practice and specialization, the researcher Dean Keith Simonton found the exact opposite: "The compositions of the most successful operatic composers tended to represent a mix of genres…composers were able to avoid the inflexibility of too much expertise(overtraining) by cross-training," summarizes UPENN researcher Scott Barry Kaufman in a Scientific American article.
We reported last week that, against the prevailing narrative that China has more or less already won the artificial intelligence race, some experts say there is still very much a contest: While China and its companies are spending a lot of money to dominate AI, we reported, they continue to be held back by intellectual inflexibility — they cannot or will not pivot as quickly as western researchers, and may be fated always to be behind.

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