A law firm with flexible child care arrangements should be applauded for its efforts.
Boudinage results from the stretching of a firm but flexible stratum, as during slip or flexure-slip folding.
Spicules, or needlelike structures, of lime embedded in the polyp body provide a firm but flexible support.
As a live band, Beirut has a firm but flexible division of labor, with Mr. Condon multitasking with a trumpet and a six-stringed ukulele.
The family firm, apparently flexible, committed to investment and loyally carried forward by successive generations, has been widely reckoned a strength of Italian industry.
Mr. Chailly, growing as a Mahlerian, keeps a firm yet flexible grip on the huge score, and the lead soloists, Jane Eaglen and Ben Heppner, are well suited to the requisite heavy vocal lifting.
With supreme political brilliance, the government's website quoted the former permanent secretary of the Académie française, Maurice Druon, when it said there was a need to be both "firm and flexible" in implementing the changes.
While the orchestral playing held to the highest standards throughout, combining a lithe attack with precision under Jansons's firm yet flexible control, there were moments amid the vehement, doom-laden progress of the vast opening funeral march that felt curiously becalmed.
This affects how people do business but it does not keep them from spending lavishly and without a trace of puritan guilt.In this section Revolutionaries at work and play Be firm, be flexible A gloomster's lament Rising out of obscurity The cruellest years I'll buy it, especially if it's Russian ReprintsOn the contrary.
Much of Yahoo!'s recent trouble, for example, was attributed by one of its senior executives to the company being "reactive instead of charting an unwavering course".Maybe what companies need is a book to teach them how to be both firm and flexible at the same time.
