Inflexible

Many European diplomats have bad memories of Mr. Samaras for what they called his inflexible, ultra-patriotic stances as foreign minister in theearly 1990s. ❋ Marcus Walker (2011)

But we are likewise indeed far removed from the temper of three or four, even of one or two generations ago, in inflexible insistence that the inequality of classes shall preserve all its old ruthless consequence for individuals. ❋ Unknown (1936)

This brings me to the issue of organised labour in South Africa, which has been described as inflexible and a barrier to investment in some quarters. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Sagasta, who, to temporize with America, recalled the inflexible ❋ John Foreman (N/A)

Pope become, even in the eyes of devout Catholics, that de Maistre called the inflexible but supine Pontiff a punchinello of no importance. ❋ William Milligan Sloane (1889)

Union ought to be impeached, and in his "Recollections," and in one of his published letters to the present Lord Carlingford, he has expressed in the strongest terms his inflexible hostility to Home Rule. ❋ Unknown (1887)

The tremendous moral power of this solitary work lies in the fact that it is a series of terrific and fascinating tableaux, embodying the idea of inflexible poetic justice impartially administered upon king and varlet, pope and beggar, oppressor and victim, projected amidst the unalterable necessities of eternity, and moving athwart the lurid abyss and the azure cope with an intense distinctness that sears the gazer's eyeballs. ❋ William Rounseville Alger (1863)

And the action, therefore, which Pliny denominated obstinacy, would, if it had been left to us to name it, have been called inflexible virtue, as arising out of a sense of the obligations imposed upon them by the Christian religion. ❋ Thomas Clarkson (1803)

The new rules won't affect so-called inflexible expenditures, such as subsidies for local government, social insurance and debt service, which can't be altered without additional legislation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And what is it that is "inflexible" about a rocket? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ms. Salgado noted that Fitch Ratings had cited Spain's "inflexible" labor market and its ailing savings banks as key reasons behind its Friday downgrade of the country's credit rating, by one notch to AA+ from the AAA maximum. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Those concerns were added to a list of factors that were already slowing the gears of the acquisition machine in Europe, such as inflexible labor markets and the protectionist bent of a number of countries, including France and even increasingly England. ❋ Dana Cimilluca (2010)

So, predictably, Labour figures have been making merry over three stories from the past couple of days: George Osborne's attack on "inflexible" public sector pay deals; Dan Hannan's remarks about the NHS; and, now, Edward Garnier's suggestion that the hunting ban should be repealed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the day that the Institute for Fiscal Studies again warns of the hole in our public finances, George Osborne has claimed that a Tory government would the look at the public sector's "inflexible" three-year pay deals. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As it is, low-income women and women of color already face tremendous barriers getting health care, including racial discrimination, inadequate funding of medical assistance programs, logistical obstacles such as inflexible work schedules and inadequate child care. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They cherry-picked their indexes by throwing out any stock that didn't survive for the whole period, whose share prices were too hard to find or whose returns seemed "inflexible," "erratic," or "non-typical." ❋ Unknown (2009)

[That guy] is [soooo] [inflex]. P ❋ Drey To The Max (2018)