As time went on, I came to love the incredible precision of the formal language, and the inventive flexibility its colloquial counterpart.

A healthy older person may well appreciate part time work if it comes with flexibility.

The existing paradigm serves to rigidify decision making at a time when extraordinary flexibility and rapid change are essential.

For developed countries, increasing resilience and flexibility over time by building public assets should be a long term priority.

Over time, they will foster productivity and flexibility, and the countries that implement them thoroughly should thus become more competitive.

The surface ships are mostly small, relying on agility and flexibility.

How fast this happens partly depends on the private sector s flexibility and dynamism.

Flexibility to make changes.

Secondly, peacebuilding requires flexibility.

In the practice of many countries, procuring entities retain broad flexibility to suspend reverse auction procedures and fix the time frame of suspension.

NATO members themselves also have much more flexibility to draw on NATO s collective assets.

We call upon the members of the Conference on Disarmament to demonstrate similar flexibility.

Innovative thinking and flexibility will be required qualities for successful performance on the job.

To that end, her delegation would continue to exercise flexibility on the outstanding issues.

Much time and effort was devoted to ensuring that the considerable burden of restoring flexibility, productivity, and competitiveness was shared equitably across the population.

It should encourage flexibility, which is the ability to evolve over time in order to respond to the needs of the Convention while maintaining comparability

The negotiations on reform will require great flexibility in the search for agreements and consensus.

What is notably missing is recognition of the need for greater flexibility on fiscal consolidation efforts.

Indeed, that is the key condition labor market flexibility on the way down as much as on the way up.

I call it sort of shotgun flexibility.

The False Panacea of Labor Market Flexibility

Its flexibility had not, however, been reciprocated.

Instead, Europe will have to rely on wage flexibility to enhance the competitiveness of its depressed regions.

Today is Europe s moment of maximum flexibility as dependence on Russian energy supplies grows, the EU s leverage weakens.

My delegation welcomes such flexibility on both sides and hopes that Member States can find an acceptable formula.

A second lesson is the importance of flexibility.

Resource flexibility is lower than in the US.

We appreciate the flexibility shown by all parties.

Undermined by a lack of policy flexibility, it will take a long time for countries like Cyprus to overcome the immediate shock of crisis and revamp their growth models.

There is therefore a need for deadline flexibility, so that immediate action can be taken on those matters that enjoy widespread support and in order to allow time for the review of controversial proposals that do not enjoy consensus or agreement.

The Committee will exercise flexibility on the scheduling of the meetings during the last two weeks of the session.

Another major problem is the MFF s lack of flexibility.

But flexibility is not a synonym for pure floating.

Unfortunately, Japan s public officials appear incapable of similar flexibility.

The international financial institutions should show some operational flexibility.

Flexibility will be essential, within the defined budgetary parameters.

There was also a need for flexibility in implementation.

The additional accommodation would also allow for more flexibility in the sitting arrangements, so that one trial might sit for longer hours in a dedicated courtroom for specific periods of time.

This will require mutual flexibility, fostered, as I noted on 22 February when echoing Chris Sanders' wise words, by maximum transparency on all sides.

Domestic financial reforms will focus on strengthening policy coordination and moving toward market determined interest rates and exchange rate flexibility.

His delegation, therefore, called on Member States to demonstrate greater flexibility and a firm political will to finalize those instruments.

As a major donor, my Government is currently working on means to increase the flexibility of our funding response mechanism.

The Pakistani delegation believed it was desirable to have a degree of flexibility in reallocating resources on a needs basis.

In a few weeks, this flexibility will be used up.

More flexibility would help attain more balanced and sustainable growth.