inflexibility

That is when the inflexibility of the system becomes apparent.

So far, such inflexibility has been justified by political calculations.

Microsoft says that its inflexibility is really a stand of principle.

Yet the strategy has begun to suffer from Washington's inflexibility.

The Queen was six hundred years old; she talked often enough about the inflexibility of age.

But the chief problem is the department's own inflexibility.

This inflexibility increases the tendency to fall in these patients.

A system whose inflexibility discouraged independent thought and personal creativity.

However, it also gives rise to a degree of inflexibility in the budget.

Those who bring forward such accusations little know the inflexibility of his principles on this point.

You think the teaching to the exam and curriculum inflexibility is bad now?

However, it is difficult to carry out any reform precisely because of this inflexibility.

We've licked the inflexibility of mass production; we knew that.

Business groups angrily argued that the move would lead to higher costs and greater inflexibility.

Management's continued inflexibility is making it extremely difficult for the union to reach an agreement.

Or perhaps he'd simply reacted with the stubborn inflexibility of youth.

The five, and other veterans, have come forward as extreme examples of the law's inflexibility.

She didn't care for the inflexibility in his tone, but could see little way to change it.

His own ability to deal, he suggests, was hamstrung by their inflexibility.

But his response appeared to be intended to avoid the appearance of inflexibility.

But I would like to sound a warning against excessive bureaucracy and inflexibility.

He has shown inflexibility and tenaciousness under the most difficult conditions.

Critics cite inflexibility of the school system as the main disadvantage.

This is madness and the sort of ideological inflexibility the world can no longer afford.