It's been clear since the 1970s that the class system was becoming more inflexible.
Spain will feel betrayed and will see the EU as inflexible, incompetent and vindictive.
Big retail banks with their expensive and inflexible legacy systems could simply evaporate, he added.
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The limit has already attracted widespread criticism for being too inflexible during an economic downturn.
Freight trains may be slow and inflexible, but they are capable of carrying huge loads.
But restaurant franchises often require huge upfront costs, lots of workers and inflexible long hours.
Forestry is an inflexible use of land, and they are weary veterans of policy reversals.
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And for small and medium-sized businesses robots are generally too costly and too inflexible.
Besides inflexible labour markets, Europe needs to tackle the problems caused by a rapidly ageing population.
Such works strived to challenge critics who often depicted traditional church teaching as calcified and inflexible.
Cyprus's elderly political bosses, on both sides of the line, seem to thrive on being inflexible.
Mr Prodi is doubtless correct to point out that such threats are crude and inflexible.
Lead times may be long and the supply chain inflexible, but you can't beat the price.
Although this model was brilliantly designed for domination, when the environment changed it proved disastrously inflexible.
Government insiders argue waiting lists are inflexible and could be used in a more intelligent way.
IFS, to keep their savings liquid rather than lock them up in an inflexible pension scheme.
And dedicated financial tills, even if they reduced bottlenecks, would be expensive and inflexible for supermarkets.
Cheap steel imports and an inflexible union work force were combining to make U.S. steel production challenging.
But there was evidence that Chinese visitors saw the visa system as "unfriendly and inflexible", he said.
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Nick Clegg felt he had signed up to a negotiating position, not a series of inflexible demands.
It was not so much a fear of crime, nor even the country's inflexible and unskilled labour market.
Inflexible contracts signed by the government meant that the UK was left with vaccines it did not need.
Others may not make the leap, or be capable of overcoming an ingrained intransigent inflexible, risk-averse IT culture.
Trust attorneys and accountants can structure the trust to be as flexible or inflexible as the situation requires.
The problem with relying on inflexible rules, of course, is that they prevent you from exercising individual judgment.
By then, Apple was shipping tens of millions of iPhones each quarter, and BlackBerry handsets seemed old and inflexible.
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"The Turks are being inflexible, but no one mistrusts their motives, " he added.
Methodical and compliant but perceived by others to be inflexible and overly cautious.
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Globalisation has not been kind to Japan's big companies, who find their inflexible ways at odds with practices elsewhere.
If the euro buys less burger than it should, perhaps inflexible wages, not a strong currency, are to blame.
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