Sentence examples for proves inflexible from inspiring English sources

Most of the books chosen by the English committee at Alex's school are problem novels, and the curriculum proves inflexible.

For months, Russia proved inflexible, supporting Damascus unconditionally.

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.

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".

Other times, the software proves too inflexible to handle commission rates that are changed quarterly or even monthly as businesses react to volatile market conditions.

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.

The common nominator for company projects lies in the technical infrastructure, in multi-channel architecture, which is proven, but inflexible.

Lower porosity covered stents have generally proved too inflexible for intracranial use and results of stent-alone treatments using conventional high porosity stents have been inconsistent [8].

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.