(a.) Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.
(a.) Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn.
(a.) Incapable of change; unalterable; immutable.
Example Sentences:
(1) In current practice, some of the goals cannot be met; they should be considered as targets worthy of achievement, not as inflexible criteria of acceptance or rejection of methods.
(2) These words reflect a departure from Ankara's recent inflexibility, which led the country to freeze relations with Brussels during the Cypriot presidency of the EU in 2012.
(3) This results in patterns of inflexibility and weakness that can be demonstrated on a tennis-specific musculoskeletal exam, and that can be correlated with areas of increased injury occurrence.
(4) Perforation at the physiologically narrow sites of the esophagus is a wellknown mechanism as is the use of inflexible polyethylen tubes containing a mandrin.
(5) Postural instability was associated with abnormal patterns of postural responses including excessive antagonist activity and inflexibility in adapting to changing support conditions.
(6) It was only his inflexible determination, the quality that had made him a great general, that mastered the torments of ill-health – sleepless nights, fear of dying – to articulate his account for a devoted American audience.
(7) The day-to-day operation of the social security system (especially in universal credit) is crude, inflexible and too often oppressive .
(8) When we protect our old industries with subsidies and inflexible legislation, we risk losing all.
(9) Differences between groups were maintained across situations, and support the utility of conceptualizing personality disorders in terms of inflexible interpersonal styles.
(10) The inflexibility of the present system seems to be a major threat to the principle of regionalization.
(11) Wheras the guidelines may appear to be inflexible, they should not be considered as such.
(12) Traditional silicone prostheses have been found to be inflexible, heavy, and of poor color match when used on the limbs.
(13) When a mode of responding is adopted in noise, subjects are often rather inflexible and continue to use this strategy even though it is inappropriate.
(14) Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, said: "No individual newspaper editorial could hope to influence the outcome of Copenhagen but I hope the combined voice of 56 major papers speaking in 20 languages will remind the politicians and negotiators gathering there what is at stake and persuade them to rise above the rivalries and inflexibility that have stood in the way of a deal."
(15) Ipsa's guidelines on travel expenses suggest MPs should consider "value for money" and whether cheaper, inflexible tickets will end up costing more if travel arrangements change at short notice.
(16) We will make decisions based on real-world outcomes – not inflexible ideology,” Trump said.
(17) Seven dinucleoside monophosphates containing epsilonA (1,N6-ethenoadenosine) and 2'-O-methylcytidine were studied by 360-MHz proton magnetic resonance and compared with unmodified dimers and component monomers at 4, 20, 45, and 75 degrees C. These studies show that the dimers exhibit preference for the gg and g'g' conformations for the C-4'-C-5' and C-5'-O-5' bonds, respectively, and that dimerization induces an increase of the population and inflexibility of the 3'-endo conformations for the ribose ring.
(18) Because of its relative inflexibility, legislation cannot meet the challenge of the subtle and sensitive conflict of values under consideration, nor can it aid in the wise decision making by individuals which is required to assure optimum protection of subjects, together with the fullest effectiveness of research.
(19) It would be foolhardy to offer an inflexible step-care protocol for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, given its heterogeneity and our uncertainty about its pathogenesis.
(20) Now researchers have developed a soft, flexible robot prototype inspired by starfish, worms and squid that overcomes some of the limitations of inflexible robots like Robbie.
Unbending
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Unbend
(a.) Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things.
(a.) Unyielding in will; not subject to persuasion or influence; inflexible; resolute; -- applied to persons.
(a.) Unyielding in nature; unchangeable; fixed; -- applied to abstract ideas; as, unbending truths.
(a.) Devoted to relaxation or amusement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given President Afwerki’s unbending resistance to such moves in the past, there is reason to be sceptical.
(2) Though far from a scholarship boy and privately educated, my life was changed by The Uses of Literacy in 1959. Who can forget some of its chapter mottoes, from Wordsworth, de Tocqueville, Arnold and "Schnozzle" Durante, and the chapter titles Unbending the Springs of Action and Invitations to a Candy-Floss World?
(3) His unbending obsession was with benefits for people of working age.
(4) There state employees protected by labour rules and given higher wages – the result of years of unbending trade unionism – have seen work decline precipitously.
(5) She provoked uproar with her 2011 memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , charting her unbending rules for raising her daughters, and spent two years dealing with the fallout, including death threats, racial slurs and pitchfork-waving calls for her arrest on child-abuse charges.
(6) Integrating a large group of people into Apple's strong, unbending culture would, alone, prove to be impossible.
(7) This premelting may correspond to the thermally induced "unbending" of the duplex.
(8) The Paris COP 21 talks surpassed expectations in rising to it, demonstrating just how much can be achieved by determined diplomacy, even while working within the unbending red lines of jealously sovereign states.
(9) They did not need to be confronted by an unbending foot soldier of the Irish Taliban.
(10) Wenderoth and O'Connor (1987b) reported that, although matches to the straight edge of two triangles placed apex to apex revealed an apparent bending in the direction of the chevron formed by the hypotenuse pair (the Bourdon effect), no perceptual unbending of the bent chevron occurred.
(11) In both data sets, there was a large and significant pretest bending effect, which enhanced the magnitude of unbending test minus pretest scores.
(12) In these cases, what began as a relatively small and contained protest against a university administration - a protest by the young and impatient against the old and unbending - burgeoned into a mass movement against the government.
(13) And those who want Britain to remain an open society should not assume the public is unbendingly hostile.
(14) We obtained Bourdon effects similar to those in Experiment 1, but much larger unbending effects.
(15) There is frustration among the population with what is perceived as the unbending attitude of the lenders.
(16) We propose that subjective obtuse angle contraction that exceeds real obtuse angle contraction explains the fact that unbending effects are larger in subjective than in real contours.
(17) Nevertheless, Bourdon effects were significantly larger than unbending effects in one set of data; and in another, Bourdon test means were larger than unbending test means.
(18) Born in postwar rationing, the Defender feels as quintessentially British as the Queen, Churchill or Bond, among the other national icons who have been plonked atop its unbending chassis.
(19) The aim of the reposition is to correct the axis of the vertebra by means of reestablishment of the shape and mass of the injured vertebra body by unbending and simultaneous stretching the vertebral column.
(20) That state of deprivation though is, of course, the condition that many of those rioting endure as their unbending reality.