Sentence examples for inflexible ways from inspiring English sources

Globalisation has not been kind to Japan's big companies, who find their inflexible ways at odds with practices elsewhere.

Still, the financial crisis showed that there are flexible and inflexible ways of using business jets: "Ownership and fractional shared ownership can lock in the customer's costs when an economic downturn means less flying, whereas charters avoid that problem," Mr. MacDonald said.

But what is significant about its use this week is that it is now apparently being applied in a rigid, inflexible way - policing as video-game.

*Some states complained that the federal government had administered the program in a rigid, inflexible way that prevented them from spending the money for children who might have benefited.

"If you were to regulate mercury in an overly inflexible way, the result would be substantial fuel switching from coal to natural gas," said Scott Segal, the spokesman for the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, an industry group formed by some of the largest energy companies.

Unlike Herberger, in his inflexible way and Shoen with his more malleable approach, Derwall failed to maintain his influence over the West German internationals, but a run of 23 unbeaten international games was surely to be respected, and overall in his 67 games as manager he won 45 matches and lost only 11.

Chris McCullough: When working as an Accident and Emergency (A&E) doctor, I was frustrated by the rigid and inflexible way that staff were scheduled in the National Health Service.

In relation to the negative effect, in the UK it has been reported that the 'four hour target' has been overused in an inflexible way by some hospitals.

The second theme "Having a precarious existence" revealed that daily life included being exposed to threats such as a fear of recurrent attacks or of falling, which resulted in an insecure and inflexible way of life.

Indeed Prime Minister Tony Blair has been publicly questioned about the inflexible way some practices have tried to achieve the AT by allowing patients to only book an appointment up to 48 hours in advance [ 12].

His communication skills were fine — it was his inflexible, "my way or the highway" style that was holding him back.