For months, Russia proved inflexible, supporting Damascus unconditionally.
Most of the books chosen by the English committee at Alex's school are problem novels, and the curriculum proves inflexible.
But when de Tournon proved inflexible and even discourteous in his attitude toward Christian practice in China, he was expelled to the Portuguese settlement at Macau, where he ran afoul of Portuguese authorities and died in confinement.
Also like in L.A., their planners believed that light rail and other alternative uses would be the mobility replacement, only to find that these options proved inflexible and underused.
The "Washington Consensus" that guided both international lenders throughout the 1990s suggested that market solutions were the only remedies for a country's woes, but they have ultimately proved inflexible.
New York has a black mayor named Zubrinsky, the U.S. has a socialist President named Metzger, but, just as official socialist broadcasting proves indistinguishable from the corporate kind, so socialist party politics prove as inflexible and hidebound as those of capitalist times, and, under Zella's guidance, women seek to take direct, and violent, action to break with both.
Although increased data availability from Federal Health Monitoring will likely lead to expansion of these standard lists, this approach may prove too inflexible to take into account the divergent nature of patient populations and perspectives considered in health economic evaluations.
Yearly contracts proved too inflexible for such volatility and in response a system of spot trading arose.
Over more than 50 years following his successful 1959 coup d'etat, he proved remarkably inflexible, doctrinaire, choleric and long-winded.
But in the end it proved too inflexible to deal with the rising economic power of Germany and Japan, and America's reluctance to adjust its domestic economic policy to maintain the gold peg.
He says President Bush "emulates Coriolanus, a well-meaning Roman general and aristocrat whose war against barbarians leads to an early victory but who then proves so inflexible and intemperate that tragedy befalls him and his people".
