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inflexible rule

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inflexible
adjective
uk /ɪnˈflek.sə.bəl/ us /ɪnˈflek.sə.bəl/
(especially of opinions and rules) fixed and unable or unwilling ...
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rule
noun
uk /ruːl/ us /ruːl/
an accepted principle or instruction that states the way things are or should be done, and tells you what you are allowed or are not allowed ...
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Examples of inflexible rule


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Its one inflexiblerule is that it will not hold a meeting inside a factory unless the assent of the trade unions has been obtained.
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An inflexiblerule would not secure the right results.
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As it stands, the two-year inflexiblerule which applies makes it a lottery for families.
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Councils can and often do and will allow payment on such a basis, but to make it an inflexiblerule is unrealistic.
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Therefore, they should not be dealt with by an inflexible machine, or an inflexiblerule.
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It is to be hoped that the normal retiring age of sixty will never become the inflexiblerule.
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But the arrangement was struck down by this inflexiblerule.
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This, again, is not an inflexiblerule.
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In every other case, however, the inflexiblerule is that no illegitimate person, or person claiming through an illegitimate link, can share in the distribution of an intestate's estate.
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It is a rigid, inflexiblerule.
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There is no inflexiblerule that an indefinite hiring is a hiring for a year.
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Monetary targeting for them was more of an inflexiblerule which had to be constantly changed depending on factors in the economy, such as growth etc.
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Farmers often become indignant at the imposition and feel regulations are illogical, inflexible rules that are difficult to implement in real life.
We were also hampered by inflexible rules for the operation of coach services.
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The amendments under discussion would not add to this, but they would risk imposing inflexible rules.
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In particular, there was much agreement that, wherever possible, transparency was preferable to inflexible rules.
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It has now chosen the worst of all options to achieve a policing of the producers by a cumbersome bureaucratic machine with harsh inflexible rules.
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There is no doubt that the imposition of inflexible rules will lead to distortions of business.
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But you do not get these by pushing up your social costs and burdening your labour market with bureaucratic and inflexible rules, regulations and practices.
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Compulsory competitive tendering imposed inflexible rules upon the way in which decisions were taken as to how and by whom services were delivered.
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