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Nice was unusually critical of Roche's inflexibility over the £90,000 bill for a year's supply of Kadcyla – three times Nice's normal limit, and nearly twice even the higher limit allowed for drugs for end-of-life care.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), says it cannot recommend the drug, Kadcyla, which promises extra months of life for women with advanced breast cancer, because of Roche's inflexibility.
The problem, as Dave Olsen of the California Independent System Operator Corporation sees it, is that utilities are hobbled by the inflexibility of their base-load generating stations.
But these products have been criticised for inflexibility and high fees.
Their inflexibility over the corporal may be making Israelis less inclined to take Hamas seriously as an interlocutor in the longer run.But the longer run is what matters.
Mr Netanyahu's inflexibility over the settlers may have got him out of a political jam; it also militates against the peace that would guarantee the Jewish state's long-term survival.
If Bitcoin matured into a complete currency, with large numbers of workers using it as their medium of account, then its inflexibility could bring economic havoc.
Union leaders have largely escaped the blame, though their inflexibility and self-importance is part of the reason for their members' plight.Many Poles might have hoped that the importance of the anniversary would transcend such internal disputes.
Its guidelines have encouraged more compact cities and protected farmland and forests, but their inflexibility has stirred resentment.
This suggests surge pricing has encouraged the number of taxis to vary with demand, with the market getting bigger during peak hours.However, the inflexibility of Uber's matchmaking fee, a fixed 20% of the fare, means that it may fail to optimise the matching of demand and supply.
Fiat belongs to the last category; and the remarkable story of the recovery of a company long written off as one of the sickest firms in Europe's sickest economy (see article) holds lessons for other carmakers.Fiat had long been synonymous with Italian industry: celebrated, at its best, for making beautiful products yet derided for inflexibility in the workplace and bureaucratic management.
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The primary grammatical function of "inflexibility" is as a noun . It typically functions as a subject or object, describing a quality or state of being unyielding or resistant to change. As shown by Ludwig, it is often used to critique systems, policies, or people.
Expression frequency: Very common
