What's the difference between assailable and unassailable?

Assailable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being assailed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In confidence rape, the assailant is known to some degree, however slight, and gains control over his victim by winning her trust.
  • (2) Preliminary murder charges have been lodged against two men – both students at Islamic religious schools, who were arrested at the scene after being overpowered by bystanders – and against a third assailant who fled and has yet to be found, an officer said.
  • (3) The assailant was from another part of Afghanistan and had been working in Khost province for about a year, he said.
  • (4) "While the state security forces in some instances intervened to prevent violence and protect fleeing Muslims, more frequently they stood aside during attacks or directly supported the assailants, committing killings and other abuses," said an HRW report released on Monday.
  • (5) Supportive mothers (n = 71) believed that the child was telling the truth and that the assailant was primarily responsible.
  • (6) In the second, the two assailants pleaded guilty this week at Brighton crown court; one was given a two-year conditional discharge and another awaits sentencing.
  • (7) Didier Enrique “Electric” Ramirez was apprehended for his alleged role in the killing of Nelson García , 39, who was shot dead earlier this month by at least two assailants following a dispute with local landowners, authorities said in a statement.
  • (8) Parameters shared by two or more criminal acts allegedly committed by the same assailant were compared with the same parameters recorded from 50 or 100 other mutually independent criminal acts committed by other known assailants.
  • (9) "Just this week I'm assailed mightily for going after Islam and had been for a very long time before that."
  • (10) Up to three assailants were still inside the British Council building fighting against Afghan security forces and Nato troops, Kabul police spokesman Hashmatullah Stanikzai said.
  • (11) Such swagger would look naïve and unreflexive now, in a country assailed by anxiety about its own impotence in the world.
  • (12) Assailants were usually adolescent and young adult men of the same race; however, 43% of children less than 5 years of age were killed by women.
  • (13) The mean age at time of assault was 21.7 years and the mean number of assailants was 2.8.
  • (14) Unknown assailants attacked Mustafa Barghouti, the leader of the Palestinian National Initiative.
  • (15) The assailant was a women in 61 pc of cases, a man in 35 pc of cases and a child in the remainder.
  • (16) It is concluded that social heredity, heavy consumption of alcohol and emotional dependence on the male assailant are major reasons for the woman's inability to break away from a relationship characterized by repeated battering.
  • (17) The assailant later admitted the assault after being shown the video footage and was jailed for five months in February.
  • (18) The attack marks the latest flaring of political violence in the deeply polarised kingdom, where months of anti-government rallies have been marred by sporadic gun and grenade attacks by unknown assailants.
  • (19) The threat of transmission of HIV was used by the assailant in 16 cases and sexually transmitted diseases, presumed consequent upon the attack, were found in 5 (18%).
  • (20) Before the criminal law was enacted, California allowed victims to sue their virtual assailants, but that is an expensive and time-consuming option.

Unassailable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bernie Sanders sees poll surge after series of record-breaking appearances Read more But Webb, who first announced an exploratory presidential committee in November, joins the race at a time when Clinton’s once unassailable command of Democratic primary looks gradually more vulnerable.
  • (2) The eurozone's second- and third-biggest economies are in trouble, and Germany, the unassailable number one, is worried about being dragged down with them.
  • (3) He sits here before me, an impermeable rock of a man, and his very solidity, the unassailable fact of James Frey, seems strangely reassuring.
  • (4) Yet, perhaps because he wasn't as high-profile as Bradley Manning or as unassailable as Aaron Swartz, Brown hasn't attracted the type of support that can effectively pressure the government.
  • (5) The former Labour prime minister, who towards the end of his time in office in June 2007 branded the media as being like a "feral beast tearing people and reputations to bits" in a speech, said on Monday morning he now felt more comfortable talking about the sometimes unassailable power that newspapers hold without responsibility.
  • (6) It is unassailable that doctors do have that responsibility to protect and promote the health of people in the community.” The case continues in Darwin, with arguments from the medical board yet to be heard.
  • (7) The date has a totemic significance for the regime of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, for whom it represents a traumatic climbdown – a moment in which the military’s apparently unassailable grip on power seemed to slip.
  • (8) Meanwhile, the US, France, the UK and other western powers have been forced to reassess their relationships with regimes that had seemed unassailable.
  • (9) It is as if the victors are unassailable once they have taken the lead.
  • (10) I don't think that there should be anyone in power who's considered unassailable, whether they're a man, woman, black, white."
  • (11) He said the commercial radio business model was "close to breaking point", up against a "dominant, well-fed and in many ways unassailable" BBC.
  • (12) Until a few months ago the state and city of Veracruz, on the Gulf coast, were considered an unassailable stronghold of the Zetas cartel.
  • (13) Romney's widely lauded performance at the debate in front of almost 70 million viewers appears to have had a particularly favourable impact on several groups that had been assumed to be unassailable strongholds for Obama.
  • (14) As he attempts to make his lead in the Republican presidential race unassailable at next week’s Super Tuesday primary contests, Donald Trump is being confronted with resurfaced allegations that he sexually assaulted and tried to rape a woman in the early 1990s.
  • (15) It was during this period that Hitler’s inner circle established an image of him as an unassailable figure who was willing to work tirelessly on behalf of his country, and who would permit no toxins – not even coffee – to enter his body.
  • (16) Nuttall’s predecessor, Nigel Farage, is a master of the grift, leveraging cigarettes, pints of beer and opposition to the metric system into an apparently unassailable cloak of authenticity draped over his privately educated stockbroker carcass.
  • (17) Again she did not need to approach her best but was able to perform when it mattered to establish a virtually unassailable lead over Broersen and the Canadian pre-championships favourite, Brianne Theisen-Eaton, who had all but blown her chances of victory on the opening day.
  • (18) "The brand has sailed through life pretty unassailably and has always succeeded in having a lot of public goodwill behind it."
  • (19) He presents a "clear and unassailable fact: Our deficits are already falling."
  • (20) At the beginning of the month, the New Zealand National party looked all but unassailable.

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