In turn, metabolically inflexible individuals fail to adapt their fuel preference to changes in carbohydrate or lipid supplies (Galgani et al, 2008).
"Counterproductive sanctions," he says, include "instances where rightly principled positions have turned into inflexible dogma — a charge sometimes leveled at Aung San Suu Kyi herself".
Having turned due west to close on Beatty's ships, the Invincibles were broadside to the oncoming torpedoes, but Invincible turned north, while Inflexible and Indomitable turned south to present their narrowest profile to the torpedoes.
Peru's finance minister, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, complained today that the fund bungled its dealings with Argentina by adopting inconsistent policies that were at turns passive and inflexible.
For herbalists and acupuncturists, the trick will be to turn respectable without becoming inflexible.
Under the new system, actors who look great on tape may turn out to be inflexible egotists whose talents peaked in front of their smartphones.
Coach Popp, as it turned out, was less inflexible than his reputation suggested.
As they're drawn closer together, they deepen into unhappier versions of themselves: Von Koren becomes inflexible, Laevsky turns hysterical, and Nadya grows increasingly desperate.
The rest of the show followed suit: Andy, slothful and dislikable in season one, became vaguely heroic in his wooing of April, who began to show hints of humanity behind the scowl, while Ron's inflexible libertarianism turned into noble self-sufficiency.
Comprehensive spatial planning turned out to be inflexible – in the very moment of the political decision the plan was already out-dated.
No public official should be so rigid or inflexible as to turn a blind eye to scientific evidence of tragic flaws in our system.
