Ikea even offered to clean up an old industrial area in the city in exchange for a cheaper lease, Mr. Stenberg said, but "Moscow showed no flexibility at all".
He showed no flexibility, however, regarding Tymoshenko, who was arrested in 2011 and convicted on charges of abuse of power in a case that was widely seen as politically motivated.
This is the slippery slope of change that Beijing has now embarked upon with these games.Critics are right that Beijing has shown no flexibility on domestic human rights, but the last thing that these dissidents want is for the world to skip the games.
"The North Koreans are more than happy to make concessions to start things up again," Albright said, "but the U.S. has shown no flexibility in addressing North Korea's position to arrive at a starting point that both sides can be happy with".
Today's Republicans show no such flexibility.
So far, at least, Team Bush has shown no such flexibility.
Their careers may not have taught them the arts of negotiation and compromise, and Morsi, an engineer by training, has shown no real flexibility in response to the unfolding crisis.
The idea that President Obama might actually want to enact his campaign promises – tax hikes on the rich, modest Medicare cuts, investments in infrastructure – is apparently considered a joke to the party that has shown virtually no flexibility in the last four years.
Like their Israeli counterparts, the Palestinians too have shown absolutely no flexibility in this regard.
At such times it is implausible, economically and especially politically, to argue that the central bank ought to show no "flexibility .In reality, then, policymakers are obliged to choose not between the stark alternatives of pure rules and total discretion, but among a range of possibilities in between.
Here China shows no hint of flexibility.
