Tom is inflexible.

Tom is very inflexible.

You're too inflexible.

You're too inflexible.

You're too inflexible.

Tom is quite inflexible.

This is too rigid.

It is an inflexible directive based on obsolete data.

After initial anger, Chamberlain determined to fight.

3.2.8 The EU financial tools remain very bureaucratic and not very flexible.

Hey, for such a young person, you are so not flexible!

Hence , the single deadline of the proposed Regulation might prove inflexible .

The features available with this type of service can be quite basic and not flexible in terms of software and updates.

The current system is too rigid and set in its ways.

To Mr Ford, maybe we are sometimes rigid in how we set up our delegations.

Sadly, today's EU labor markets are too inflexible to achieve this result.

The process is seriously flawed it is complex, protracted, disjointed, time consuming and rigid.

We have in mind the system of global Community advance payments made to Member States and the interference by management committees in the day to day decisions of the Commission.

It is over regulated and inflexible and, on top of these twin evils, is expensive even at the current low level of the Euro.

In principle all the groups agree, but our amendment is a bit rigid on the financial implication.

Working life needs to be lengthened, public pensions are often too generous, labor markets too rigid.

Every politician must be responsive to complaints from the public, or he or she will become inflexible and make disastrous decisions.

These countries inherited large public sectors from the socialist era and in many cases their legislation is cumbersome.

The report also has no truck with any catalogue of competences, which would make cooperation far too rigid a matter.

BE explains that nuclear stations are technically and economically inflexible and that the operation of such plants other than as baseload plant is uneconomic.

The present legislative process is much too long winded and inflexible to be able to adapt to the much more rapidly changing securities markets.

It is, in my judgement, in grave crisis because its reference value of 3 was laid down arbitrarily and is too rigid.

At the same time, the inflexible nature of the proposal makes no provision for mechanisms allowing the list of 'safe states' to be revised and countries added or removed.

These countries inherited large public sectors from the socialist era and in many cases their legislation is cumbersome.

That sort of responsiveness to popular sentiment in the legislative process gives the lie to the canard that French regulation is inflexible and hopelessly bureaucratic.

This was perhaps the biggest surprise how flexible the Koran is, at least in minds that are not fundamentally inflexible.

Socialists in government in Britain increase unemployment.

The railway companies are still very much a relic of the past, and their standards of service are poor and inflexible when it comes to freight transport.

The job market remains structurally rigid, keeping the unemployed at bay and protecting those with jobs.

It would not achieve any significant increase in butter consumption, for which it was designed, and would make food dearer for some of the consumers who are least able to pay.

On the other hand, existing legislation is not flexible, and a fair market could be of great importance to consumers and suppliers.

We are also proposing that there should be an expanded Cabinet for the President.

Stalin had created a command economy that emphasized heavy manufacturing and smokestack industries, making it highly inflexible all thumbs and no fingers.

Every politician must be responsive to complaints from the public, or he or she will become inflexible and make disastrous decisions.

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The consensual society that was at the center of the Federal Republic s Wirtschaftswunder now looks inflexible, throwing up obstacles to change.

1.4 It should be also noted, in view of COP 17, that the EU's climate change policy is obviously over ambitious and unnecessarily inflexible.

The Commission is afraid that Amendment No 17 would make the text too inflexible with possible negative repercussions for e commerce.

The Personality Assessment Schedule gives social function priority in creating a hierarchy in which the personality disorder creating the greater social dysfunction is given primacy over others in a subsequent description of personality disorder.

And the women came with their stories about men who could not make the transition, angry and inflexible, and troubled children caught between two worlds.