What's the difference between cannot and invincible?

Cannot


Definition:

  • () Am, is, or are, not able; -- written either as one word or two.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The generally accepted hypothesis is a coronary spasm but a direct cardiotoxicity of 5-FU cannot be.
  • (2) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
  • (3) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (4) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
  • (5) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
  • (6) This decrease cannot be accounted for by increased turnover of the mRNA in the presence of the drug.
  • (7) So too his statement that "in Zulu culture you cannot leave a woman if she is ready.
  • (8) The importance of proper disinfection of such equipment cannot be overemphasized.
  • (9) Thus, although ferric-enterochelin cannot penetrate the cell surface from outside, the complex that is formed within the envelope is transported normally into the cell.
  • (10) If Deckard cannot see himself in the other, Roy can.
  • (11) In this way they offer the doctor the chance of preventing genetic handicaps that cannot be obtained by natural reproduction, and that therefore should be used.
  • (12) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
  • (13) Unfortunately more than three quantitative data cannot be judged simultaneously without help of mathematical methods.
  • (14) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
  • (15) Gradual evolutionary change by natural selection operates so slowly within established species that it cannot account for the major features of evolution.
  • (16) Particular attention has been paid to diabetes mellitus and chronic pancreatitis, but a firm conclusion cannot be drawn.
  • (17) Simple interconversion cannot account for the changes in binding that occur upon adding GMP-PNP or removing magnesium, since the increase in [R2]t exceeds the decrease in [R1]t. Moreover, the apparent amount of high-affinity complex exhibits a biphasic dependence on the concentration of [3H]histamine; an increase at low concentrations is offset by a decrease that occurs at higher concentrations.
  • (18) Today the physician who treats women with emotional problems during menopause cannot function solely as a psychotherapist; he must deal with both their soma and psyche.
  • (19) The release of possible peptide hormones into the interpeduncular cistern, where a pool of cerebrospinal fluid and large blood vessels occur, cannot be excluded.
  • (20) However, valid electroacoustic evaluation of the DMHAs cannot be accomplished using the conventional hearing aid test box.

Invincible


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued; unconquerable; insuperable; as, an invincible army, or obstacle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A study released in August by the nonpartisan Commonwealth Fund came to the rather interesting conclusion that if the so-called invincibles shun the new law, it will be because the plans cost more than they think they can afford and not because they feel that they are above needing healthcare coverage.
  • (2) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
  • (3) She argued that in fracturing the myth of American invincibility, the attacks also indirectly prompted a resurgence in patriarchal ideals, and a return to old-fashioned perceptions of gender.
  • (4) In fact, the government itself had become bedazzled by the seemingly invincible rise in stock prices.
  • (5) The Last Stand to Reason takes place on a train called the Stanton Bullet, with a teenage boy government-engineered to be invincible, a criminal mastermind lost inside his own disguises, and an unidentified "small thing" forever threatened with defenestration.
  • (6) For it gives the impression that we don't care about our freedom and that as long as we believe we are safe from terrorists, the government can do what the hell it likes with our information, even if that means building an invincible political power over trade unions, dissenting minorities, legitimate protesters, environmental activists, Her Majesty's opposition... you name it!
  • (7) The project’s co-director Max Wakefield says: “By helping people create tangible relationships with energy, we can enable an understanding of the need to reduce demand.” Despite the private tech industry’s seeming invincibility in many areas of consumer life, from copyright to privacy , there are cracks in the facade .
  • (8) I don’t like this term ‘strong female characters’ because that implies if a woman is gonna be in a comedy she’s gotta be tough and invincible and not vulnerable and to act more like a man.
  • (9) It was a symbolic blow for a Democratic party (PD) that had been riding high since its unprecedented victory in the European elections last month, and came as a reminder that, even with the 41% his party won in that poll, 39-year-old prime minister Matteo Renzi is far from invincible.
  • (10) In what role I don’t know, that is what he has to think about: what direction he wants to give to his next life.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Arsène Wenger says Thierry Henry will certainly have a role at Arsenal Henry joined the Red Bulls in 2010 following a successful playing career in Europe, where he was an integral part of Arsenal’s ‘Invincibles’ title-winning side of 2003-04, and also went on to win the 2009 Champions League with Barcelona.
  • (11) While until recently the greycoats looked invincible everywhere, in around 20 years the frontier has shifted 100km to the east .
  • (12) Extracted from Invincible: Inside Arsenal’s Unbeaten 2003-2004 Season by Amy Lawrence, published by Viking on 23rd October at £16.99 © Amy Lawrence 2014
  • (13) Life is so precious and we all believe we're invincible, but I know what's happening to my body.
  • (14) One theory aired in Russian media in recent days is that Nemtsov’s murder has led to a standoff between two powerful groups in the Russian elite: Kadyrov and his clan, who have always had Putin’s personal backing, and top security officials who have been genuinely investigating the murder and are determined to test Kadyrov’s apparent invincibility.
  • (15) But that does not render it invincible.” “As an initial matter, we do not give superduper protection to decisions that do not actually interpret a statute.” “The court calls this a ‘superpowered form of stare decisis ’ that renders statutory interpretation decisions nearly impervious to challenge,” he wrote in the dissent.
  • (16) A collection of individuals who couldn’t win a football match for love nor money a year ago have turned into an invincible force.
  • (17) We are spreading your words to the four corners of the earth, to remind the enemies of free speech that an invisible and invincible army is on its way, using words to tear down every one of the barriers keeping mankind from progress.
  • (18) With his team stripped of their invincibles label Mourinho was reduced to muttering about a Tyneside time-wasting conspiracy but no one should take any notice.
  • (19) Ethnopharmacologic inquiry is most invincibly pursued by addressing "medicinals" across the divers contexts through which populations gain exposure to the material of their pharmacopoeia.
  • (20) This - together with other discoveries, such as the fact that the invincible German war economy had been thoroughly badly run, with minimal use of female labour, and more than a million domestic servants in the country as late as September 1944 - induced in Galbraith a permanent scepticism about what he later came to term "the conventional wisdom".