(a.) Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of material things; as, an immovable foundatin.
(a.) Steadfast; fixed; unalterable; unchangeable; -- used of the mind or will; as, an immovable purpose, or a man who remain immovable.
(a.) Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive.
(a.) Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n.
(n.) That which can not be moved.
(n.) Lands and things adherent thereto by nature, as trees; by the hand of man, as buildings and their accessories; by their destination, as seeds, plants, manure, etc.; or by the objects to which they are applied, as servitudes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(2) Right now, with Kabila already 10 years in power and looking immovable, despotism seems to have democracy on the ropes.
(3) There were two principles on which James was immoveable: that the intricacy of a plot could never make up for poor writing ("I find with my own reading, that it doesn't matter how exciting a book is: if it's badly written one just can't be bothered with it.
(4) The procedure of resecting the heads of the metatarsal bones according to Lelièvre seems to be recommendable in order to prevent immovability, especially in case of advanced inflammable alterations of the joints in the forefoot.
(5) Though it "was inevitable that Spain would face lean years as it learned to live within its means", Krugman argued, "Germany's immovability was an important contributor to Spain's pain".
(6) As I said at the end, I’d ideally like some Frankenstein-esque combination of her willingness to stare into the void with JC’s immovable principles.
(7) For this purpose a moulded jacket was designed which could hold the inhaler in an immovable position during actuation.
(8) [It] provokes the Greek people,” he said on Friday, insisting that the loan effectively ended the British Museum’s argument that the Greek antiquities were immovable.
(9) One day the British were there, immovable, complete masters; next day, the Japanese, whom we derided, mocked as short, stunted people with short-sighted squint eyes.” After the second world war when the British were trying to reestablish control: “... the old mechanisms had gone and the old habits of obedience and respect (for the British) had also gone because people had seen them run away (from the Japanese) ... they packed up.
(10) As Tristan Cooper, sovereign debt analyst at Fidelity Worldwide Investments, noted: "The irresistible force of German austerity has clashed with the immovable object of Greek popular resistance."
(11) But there sometimes comes a point where we start to think we are pushing an immovable object.
(12) The text agreed next week will no doubt recommend policy changes but these are likely to be too little, too late because there appears to be an immovable political obstacle to considering changes before 2020 (did someone say Poland?)
(13) Photograph: François Duhamel This is a great premise for a movie, and the scenes in which the unstoppable force of Walt Disney meets the immovable object of PL Travers are terrific – as are those in which she is driven around by a needlessly chirpy chauffeur (Paul Giamatti), and faces down screenwriter Don DaGradi (Bradley Whitford) and songwriting brothers Robert and Richard Sherman (BJ Novak and Jason Schwartzman).
(14) Choosing among ‘the vulnerable of the vulnerable’ The US places a strict, but not immoveable, ceiling on the number of refugees it admits annually.
(15) Think hard-force-meets-immovable-object and you'll have some idea of what it was like.
(16) While the friction measured in vitro with immovable brackets and in vivo without occlusal load did not differ significantly, additional tooth movement by occlusal load resulted in significant reduction of friction magnitude.
(17) The stiff osteosynthesis with immovable plates realize a therapeutic dissociation between the skeletal stage and the basal alveolo-dental stage.
(18) Since Ed Balls backed Vince Cable's mansion tax, Labour should have seized this easy chance to embrace Clegg's wealth tax and build on it – it's popular and right to tax immovable wealth.
(19) Luzhkov was once an immovable feature against the protean backdrop of Russia's domestic politics.
(20) This method is proving to be useful, particularly for electrophysiological and pharmacological studies on immovable cells such as those in culture.
Implacable
Definition:
(a.) Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified; inexorable; as, an implacable prince.
(a.) Incapable of ebign relieved or assuaged; inextinguishable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cameron knew the latter option was not open to him, and had the guts to follow where the implacable logic led.
(2) But political corruption and the implacable opposition of the spooks and military to progressive change are the traditional forms of anti-democratic politics, in Britain, as elsewhere.
(3) Even Obama, whom Kerry supported for president at the risk of angering the Clintons, initially passed over Kerry as his second-term chief diplomat and only tapped Kerry when Susan Rice’s bid drew implacable opposition.
(4) Yet beneath the facade of implacable command was a moody, capricious man with a strained marriage: while he was in India, his wife Edwina had allegedly conducted an affair with the Indian politician Nehru.
(5) And her implacable conviction that immigrant families have been corrupted by the welfare state, which has eroded their traditional commitment to education, makes her bizarrely sentimental about the education provided in a country such as Jamaica.
(6) Developing nations have been unanimous and implacable on the terms of the finance deal.
(7) Five months on and the Syriza government is being ground down by an implacable European elite.
(8) The point may seem to be simply describing Shylock’s implacability – but the fact that it occurs as Shylock is using logic and reason to rebuff the noblemen creates a link between his capacity for debate and the idea of him as inhumane, beyond empathy.
(9) But eurozone governments have so far resisted substantial debt relief and are implacably opposed to any measure that could write off some Greek debts, otherwise known as a “haircut”.
(10) In an attempt to persuade AstraZeneca investors to force the board to negotiate, he flagged the company's apparently implacable opposition to a deal.
(11) The opposition is in tatters and divided on how to confront this implacable force.
(12) While Southern, operated by Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) into London from Sussex, Surrey and parts of Kent, is not planning to make compulsory redundancies, unions are implacably opposed to any extension of driver-only operated trains.
(13) O’Hara told the Guardian: “As an SNP MP implacably opposed to Trident but also as the local MP, I am extremely worried by these allegations, even if only half of what the report claims is true.
(14) This is all part of what is supposed to be a clash of civilisations, unending, implacable, irremediable.
(15) Among Cameron's coalition partners stands Vince Cable, Lib Dem business secretary, MP for nearby Twickenham and another implacable foe of a bigger Heathrow.
(16) And those who step into sport's pressure cooker had better prepare themselves to be mentally implacable, and use the best psychological training they can find.
(17) Many of those politicians are implacably opposed to any form of tax hike, and Boehner has also struck a strong tone, claiming that the election results that left his party in charge of the House also represent a mandate from the people.
(18) The Catholic father in Ken Loach's Jimmy's Hall is just the most implacable enemy of nice-as-pie communists showing everyone a good time; the village imam in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep is an ingratiating, smirking creep; and the local rev in The Homesman (as played by John Lithgow) is definitely a weasel, rather too obviously grateful not to have to transport three traumatised frontierwomen back east.
(19) They must stop chasing the thrill of a deal at the expense of US national security, and the security of our allies.” The Emergency Committee for Israel, an implacable administration foe, encouraged Congress on Friday to “take all appropriate measures to oppose [a deal] and ratchet up sanctions.
(20) The conservative reaction was immediate, and the message was implacable.