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In addition, she said, “what this has tended to do is ossify terms and conditions when we need more flexibility about how we do things”.
除此之外，她说，“久而久之，这只会硬化员工待遇条款，而我们在做事方式上要更为灵活。”
But the risk that the recent homeward flow of bank assets will ossify into a less efficient, less flexible cross-border banking system is real and growing.
然而，最近银行资产向母国回流的趋势正在朝低效、僵化的跨国银行系统越滑越深，这一风险是实实在在的，而且在不断加大。
Raymond: That it is possible for open source cultures in some respects to ossify enough that good work is locked out.
Raymond：就是开放源码文化在某些方面可能会非常保守，会把好的作品关在门外。

Calls for consolidation reek of elitists exploiting crises to ossify recalcitrant patriotic fissures.
FORBES: Europe's Debt Crisis Is No Failing Of Federalism
But the risk that the recent homeward flow of bank assets will ossify into a less efficient, less flexible cross-border banking system is real and growing.
ECONOMIST: Globalisation under strain: Homeward bound The

(IDEAS) If habits or ideas ossify, or if something ossifies them, they become fixed and unable to change.
(BODY) If body tissue ossifies, it becomes hard and changes into bone.

If an idea, system, or organization ossifies or if something ossifies it, it becomes fixed and difficult to change. ...