I'm not such an inflexible person.

Such inflexible arrangements are not without cost.

Even the most inflexible legislation could be improved.

However, the Indonesian regime remains defiant, inflexible and arrogant.

To accuse States in particular, coastal States of being inflexible is wrong.

Many times the work of field representatives is thwarted by inflexible directives from headquarters.

Thus, an inflexible contract can protect workers when the preponderance of bargaining power is with firms.

Regrettably, these talks are faltering because of the unreasonable and inflexible attitude of the Serbs. quot

Only the force of inscrutable fate is powerful enough to overthrow the inflexible laws of science

Moreover, an inflexible and family unfriendly corporate environment is no longer the only choice for working women.

Several countries, most notably Germany and France, seem hobbled by inflexible labor markets and regulations that inhibit dynamism.

(The percussion mode was considered inflexible by most developers it was used mostly by AdLib's own composition software.

Other delegations considered the proposed strict liability regime to be inflexible and not entirely consistent with current practice.

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

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

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

Secondly, the strict liability regime governing transboundary damage in the draft principles was inflexible and not entirely consistent with current international practice.

His vision was to enable man and machine to cooperate in making decisions, controlling complex situations without the inflexible dependence on predetermined programs.

We do not want to advocate reform that is immutable and inflexible we want it to be put to the test again after 15 years.

68. At the same time, it has to be recognized that unemployment may also to some extent be due to segmented and inflexible labour markets.

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.

Instead, union influence today all too often serves to promulgate inflexible work practices and flat salary structures that do not adequately reward work effort and skill.

Even as we meet today, we see the results around us of our collective failure to be unambiguous, inflexible and uncompromising in the face of injustice.

It interfered with the details of governance in Lebanon in a heavy handed and inflexible manner that was the primary reason for the political polarization that ensued.

Now is the time to leave behind the accusatory rhetoric and pejorative resolutions of the past, and to break free from familiar inflexible and unworkable political stances.

An economy such as that of Tanzania apos s is both fragile and inflexible and, therefore, demands both vertical and horizontal diversification to make it viable and sustainable.

To be honest, I am not sure that all of the world s governments have accepted the inevitable, or that even the most inflexible will now agree to the moratorium.

Substantial efforts have been made over the years to streamline and integrate their procedures nevertheless, the GEF inherited many of the weaknesses of these large and sometimes inflexible bureaucracies.

Moreover, an inflexible and family unfriendly corporate environment is no longer the only choice for working women. Many, particularly in the US, have left that world to start their own businesses.

The multilateral financial institutions, and the major Powers which control them, must become less ideologically inflexible and more alert to the deleterious effect of some of their policies on poor States.

He noted that the territorial Government was convinced that the existing civil service salary scales were too inflexible to address the somewhat specialized packages necessary to attract and retain proper personnel.

Everyone gets to be hyphenated. By contrast, when identity is presented as being a stark choice, people often do not choose the identity of the host country that is being so inflexible.

But the process takes time, and, because of the rising weight of relatively inflexible emerging market economies in global consumption, adjustment will probably take longer than it did a few decades ago.

That should include consultations with the organizations, since organizations favouring the introduction of a special occupational rates system considered the initial proposal for such a system to be too inflexible and complicated.

While an inflexible system of cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations might not be desirable, complementary sharing of responsibility in the maintenance of international peace and security was a worthy goal.

The lack of adjustment of surplus countries with inflexible exchange rate regimes means that as the US deficit falls, a counterbalancing deficit develops elsewhere in the world along with real effective exchange rate appreciation.

56. While his delegation was not inflexible with regard to the date for the consideration of the item relating to appointments, it felt that a deadline should be set for the submission of nominations.

The relative decline of the share of funds used for the purchase of food, as the most inflexible item on the personal spending list, accounted for a constant improvement in household supplies and home appliances.

The Group of Non Aligned States parties to the Treaty deeply regrets the continued inflexible postures of some nuclear weapon States that have prevented the Conference on Disarmament from establishing an ad hoc committee on nuclear disarmament.

We should therefore not be too rigid and should use our imagination to explore new ways of making the Council more representative at the same time, we should avoid creating overly rigid and inflexible categories of members.

The Soviet economy s decline, meanwhile, reflected the diminished ability of central planning to respond to global economic change. Stalin had created a command economy that emphasized heavy manufacturing and smokestack industries, making it highly inflexible all thumbs and no fingers.

Cuba is prepared to undertake this exercise and is of the view that the inflexible position of some nuclear powers, particularly the United States, is continuing to prevent the Conference on Disarmament from establishing an ad hoc committee on nuclear disarmament.

This is not the first time that the authorities of this former Yugoslav Republic have demonstrated an intolerant and inflexible attitude against priests of the Serbian Orthodox Church and prevented them in a rude way from performing their regular priestly duties.

Job tenure may also serve as a form of social security, because the government performs miserably on providing a safety net and private insurance markets do not exist. Thus, an inflexible contract can protect workers when the preponderance of bargaining power is with firms.

To be honest, I am not sure that all of the world s governments have accepted the inevitable, or that even the most inflexible will now agree to the moratorium. But I continue to have faith that the General Assembly will know, as always, how to meet this challenge.