What's the difference between eternal and unending?

Eternal


Definition:

  • (a.) Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.
  • (a.) Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal.
  • (a.) Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant.
  • (a.) Existing at all times without change; immutable.
  • (a.) Exceedingly great or bad; -- used as a strong intensive.
  • (n.) One of the appellations of God.
  • (n.) That which is endless and immortal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Will the United fans' eternal favourite soon add his voice to that of 140,000 fans?
  • (2) The lucky thing is, says Susan Calman , that although she is "an eternal worrier, occasionally I do something stupid."
  • (3) In legend, Gilgamesh fell asleep on the water side and let slip from his fingers the plant of eternal youth.
  • (4) To butcher TS Eliot: I have seen the mercury of my thermometer flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my sheets drenched in sweat at 3am, and snicker, And in short, I was too hot.
  • (5) Dayton Flyers once again pull off the round's first upset The final minute of game time seemed to take a small eternity in real time, with the in-game action interrupted by four team timeouts and eight free throw attempts.
  • (6) Greed is not only good, it is a fundamental prop to the fantasy of eternal growth.
  • (7) In each of his creative capacities, he was the eternal quiet man.
  • (8) Even Alec – eternally hard to please where his own work was concerned – loved it.
  • (9) 9.06am BST There are some eternal verities in politics and one of them is that British governments (especially Conservative-led ones) are always fighting a war on red tape.
  • (10) Boris Johnson accused of 'dishonest gymnastics' over TTIP U-turn Read more “But fundamentally, what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe .
  • (11) They call it, rather unsurprisingly, the eternal flame.
  • (12) They were created on the basis that, whatever the cost, there are some eternal values that are worth upholding in a civilised society.
  • (13) He has taken the legacy of postwar abstract expressionism, and allied to that a deep love of the great eternal themes of the classical world.
  • (14) Murray said: "I'm eternally grateful to Ivan for all his hard work over the past two years, the most successful of my career so far.
  • (15) I am not sure that a lucrative career in rape gags is more helpful than a failed one, but the rape hum seems eternal.
  • (16) Ras proteins are membrane-associated transducers of eternal stimuli to unknown intracellular targets.
  • (17) One, Baroness O'Cathain, has said, in relation to politics and her evangelism: "For me it is a guarantee of eternal peace."
  • (18) Committed to eliminating the budget deficit by the end of next year, it just does not have the cash to fund, for example, big new infrastructure projects like an eternally proposed (and eternally postponed) bridge over the Straits of Messina.
  • (19) François Bayrou must have resigned himself to being the eternal also-ran of French presidential elections, by now.
  • (20) To all those who offered me their friendship, support and prayers, I will be eternally grateful.

Unending


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He set sail on his $15m yacht Sorcerer II on an unending voyage with the mission, along the way, "to put everything that Darwin missed into context" and map the whole world's genetic components.
  • (2) What Katrina left behind: New Orleans' uneven recovery and unending divisions Read more Ten years on, resentment still lingers about the failure of the federal levee system during hurricane Katrina, the botched response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the long and difficult process of accessing billions of dollars in grant money for rebuilding, which for some people is not finished.
  • (3) Special care in the management of so-called 'chronic Lyme disease' is crucial lest the clinician prescribes prolonged or unending courses of antibiotics for such noninfectious problems.
  • (4) Many wonder if Ai will tire of the unending tussle and move abroad.
  • (5) I, of course, told myself at the time that it was because there was something foul about the scene unfolding in my living room; something toxifying in this soft-world parody of the worst, most irredeemable yet persistent aspect of human nature: the unending horror of judgment and mass execution.
  • (6) Johnson’s complaint states that since he had become chair and chief executive, Martinez “has subjected Johnson and other employees to an unending stream of racist and sexist comments as well as unwanted touching and other unlawful conduct”.
  • (7) The Pentagon produced a theory to suit: the Long War doctrine postulating unending conflict against ill-defined but ubiquitous enemies.
  • (8) But so often, open worlds are built from architectural filler – bland unending landscapes and cardboard box tenements.
  • (9) The core themes expressed include the unending attempt to put the patient in touch with the surroundings; trying to stay ahead of the patient; a decline in the reciprocal relationship; narrowing of the caregiver's horizons; and a search for personal connectedness.
  • (10) He said his early resignation would undermine the legitimacy of his successors, creating a recipe for unending chaos.
  • (11) Yet for the families of the mostly young people who died, there has been unending grief, and a traumatic legal ordeal leaving them with questions still unanswered.
  • (12) Thus may the long night of pain and violence, with the support of all Colombians, become an unending day of concord, justice, fraternity and love... so that there may be lasting peace.” Farc leaders had hoped the pope would agree to meet with negotiators from both sides during his three-day visit to Cuba but the Vatican denied that a meeting would take place.
  • (13) This is all part of what is supposed to be a clash of civilisations, unending, implacable, irremediable.
  • (14) After NYT Editorial board editor David Firestone posted the NYT's editorial on Twitter and heralded the speech as "a momentous turning point, making clear an unending state of war is unsustainable," I asked him : "Will it be 'momentous' if it's not followed up with decisive and prompt action?"
  • (15) Updated at 2.11am GMT 2.03am GMT We're an hour into a possibly unending event and there is yet to be a wedding.
  • (16) The tax would mean graduates faced "an unending liability", he says, and "the absolute killer" was how European Union students would pay for their degrees under such a system.
  • (17) In the unending struggle to keep up with new technologies and services, libraries have had to support increasing demands while they receive a decreasing share of the health care dollar.
  • (18) But it is clear that tackling the crisis in Iraq cannot ignore the unending and de-stabilising war next door.
  • (19) With that and the unending energy crisis in mind, the Pakistan government has been wooing multinationals at a series of oil and gas exploration conferences in London, Houston and Calgary last week.
  • (20) The basic idea of New Labour was that the party had been held back by our tendency to let once sensible policy positions become unquestionable and unending ideological commitments... Too often, the Labour party had made a fetish of state action when the means should have been whatever it took to get the ends achieved.