From 1936 French tank production accelerated, but the doctrinal problems remained, resulting in 1940 in an inflexible structure, with the Infantry and Cavalry fielding separate types of armoured division.

My earlier book towers (Arguments) sought to reflect the fragility of human arguments, which are mostly inflexible structures in a history that is fluid and ever-changing.

"The plan institutionalizes a more flexible way of employing allied forces," one official said, adding that the alliance's slow, clumsy response in Bosnia was due in part to NATO's inflexible structure.

Legal systems expanded to contain these problems (though unhelpfully international law lagged far behind) but could only provide relatively inflexible overarching structures around all the complex and numerous issues.

The Republicans' televised debate on May 8 was more civilized, in part because the debate's inflexible structure provided no interaction between candidates.

Ms. Seymour said that union leaders doubted that the Government could hire many welfare recipients "because of the inflexible structure of many agencies and the fact that the Government is downsizing."

If anything, it is the inflexible social structure itself that Modesitt is writing against, not the people themselves, for he depicts many revs late in the book as pleasant, intelligent, and sympathetic characters.

My action here does not imply a softening of my attitude to the EU and its impenetrable, inflexible and unaccountable structure.

This leads to rigid and inflexible structures.

The most useful aspect of Abernathy's note is the specific inventory of why this may be difficult to pull off, once the company is stripped down to just the Times itself-a large and inflexible fixed-cost structure associated with printing, union contracts, and trucking.