And cynics will take the message too far, justifying every kind of deviousness and inflexibility.
So far, the cuts being proposed are designed mainly to cope with the lower level of funding and inflexibility associated with operating under the continuing resolution.
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With ease of use comes certain restrictions and inflexibility.
But given the insularity and inflexibility that still hobble too many Japanese firms, this small source of alternative jobs offers an outlet for those who are getting a raw deal in corporate Japan.
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On both sides, there is still too little trust and too much inflexibility.
And Arab diplomatic inflexibility has given Israel time to enhance through Jewish settlement its claims for retention of strategically valuable territories it acquired in the 1967 war.
IMF's critics accuse it of inflexibility and political naivety.
For these women, most of whom never envisioned having to choose between careers and children, the costs of workplace inflexibility are up close and personal -- diverted dreams and forgone earnings and independence.
She prided herself on her - what she would call - steadfastness, and what others would call her inflexibility.
And, despite a reputation for inflexibility born of a puritanical moral rigour, he has already proved quite adept at political manoeuvring.
It has the decisiveness of a hierarchy but without its inflexibility, its rigidity and its tendency to demotivate workers and frustrate customers.
The nation is in general keen to stay within the euro, although some years back Berlusconi did complain about the inflexibility of the Stability and Growth Pact.
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For this client, the inflexibility of labor laws and the power of labor unions is a far bigger constraint to her IT agility than is the complexity of IT systems or internal processes.
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In the case of Bundesdruckerei, a state-owned printing works bought by Britain's Apax Partners in 2000, the inflexibility of the workforce and various other factors produced too little cashflow to service its debt.
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There were limitations in what could be analyzed, due to the inflexibility of data warehouses and relational databases, but the process for cleansing, sorting and analyzing data was well understood as a complete cycle.
With their inflexibility, cushioning, and raised heels, they almost force you to crash down on your heel and send the impact of all your weight in every step straight into your knees and hips.
Because of inflexibility in the labour market and high labour costs, German companies do much of their labour-intensive production abroad, keeping the capital-intensive operations at home.
For example, confidence in attaining accurate knowledge prior to war and the emphasis on preplanning often leads to inflexibility.
The party, Herri Batasuna, blamed the breakdown of the truce on inflexibility by other parties in Spain and France, saying they had only pursued a strategy of confrontation.
In her later years in power, the woman who famously said "the lady's not for turning" was criticized for her inflexibility while the introduction of a new and widely disliked local tax system further sapped her popularity.
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