inelastic

How To Use inelastic In A Sentence

• Fibroblasts grow into the exudate from both the visceral and parietal pleural surface to produce an inelastic membrane called the pleural peel.
• Some polymers stretch to 10 times their length, whereas metals are relatively inelastic, he says.
• The big category of goods dutiable at 5 % or less, on which tariffs stand to be eliminated, consists mainly of primary commodities, and the demand for such goods tends to be relatively "inelastic" - that is, unresponsive to small price changes such as would result from the removal of a 5 % or lower import tariff. Expanding Trade—The Positive Approach to Economic Growth
• For skilled occupations the supply of labour is typically fairly inelastic, because few workers are capable of doing the work.
• Oil is a poor analog because I’m not sure a short-term inelastic product compares to any form of information. The plummeting value of newspapers « BuzzMachine
• With an inelastic demand, much lower prices and lower incomes (excluding large increases in subsidies) resulted.
• Economists call petroleum inelastic i.e., demand is nonresponsive to price changes. Gary Liberson, PhD: Global Warming and the Middle East
• What about price inelastic sectors where bad, light or unenforced regulation would create unimaginable misery? The Times Literary Supplement
• The laughable element in both cases consists of a certain MECHANICAL INELASTICITY, just where one would expect to find the wide-awake adaptability and the living pliableness of a human being. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
• economists speak of an inelastic price structure