What's the difference between immutable and inalienable?

Immutable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not mutable; not capable or susceptible of change; unchangeable; unalterable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The finding that spontaneous changes in this dimension are relatively common raises the possibility that classical attitudes concerning the immutability of osseous relationships in the symphyseal region during growth may be inappropriate.
  • (2) This indicates that the immutability of the condylar path under varying clinical conditions is questionable.
  • (3) We do a disservice to the cause of justice by intimating that bias and discrimination are immutable, or that racial division is inherent to America.
  • (4) The plaque is not a static immutable structure, but is subjected to growth with consequent stenosis of the lumen and continuing modification and remodelling which involve all the 3 coats of the arterial wall.
  • (5) Such events are quite discordant with classical cytogenetic theories, which assume all chromosome rearrangements to require at least two breaks and consider centromeres and telomeres as immutable structures rather than structures determined by mutable DNA sequences.
  • (6) SI neuron functional properties conventionally regarded as immutable [e.g., directional selectivity, and distribution of sensitivity within the receptive field (RF)] also modify with repetitive stimulation.
  • (7) It is an immutable law of economics that the rich have to keep getting richer, otherwise the whole system collapses and then what happens?
  • (8) It is apparent that there is no immutable evidence to date to indicate that cholecystokinin cholecystography is an accurate technique to determine which patients in this category will benefit from cholecystectomy.
  • (9) In other words, we have not settled immutably on one system because we are still searching for the best.
  • (10) Even if that is true, No 10 knows there is one immutable fact.
  • (11) The concept of blood-brain barrier has moved over the past years from a passive and relatively immutable structure to a more dynamic interface between blood and brain tissue.
  • (12) Although both rad mutants are immutable to about the same extent, the rad9 strains tend to be less sensitive to the lethal effect of chemical mutagens than rad6 strains.
  • (13) Our mission is to persuade them to do so.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tony Blair compares Brexit to a bad house swap He argued people’s opinions were not immutable and debate about the wisdom of Brexit should not be stifled.
  • (14) Our experiments suggest that beta-receptor expression does not follow an immutable program, but may be regulated by density-dependent cell-cell interactions.
  • (15) As a result, their responses do not bear an immutable relationship to the nature of the stimulus or other variable being modified; stimuli and activities that are rewarding in certain circumstances are avoided in others.
  • (16) Such findings have bolstered what is currently the most popular theoretical approach to retarded functioning-namely, the view that all retardates suffer from some specific defect which inheres in mental retardation and thus makes the retardate immutably "different" from normals, even when the general level of intellectual development is controlled.
  • (17) Political positions that appeared for years to be immutable have suddenly started to shift.
  • (18) "I think the authority that we enjoy comes from the depth of our reporting and that is immutable.
  • (19) After those three years I was no longer the same person with the same heart and mind, I was immutably changed forever.
  • (20) The indications for implanting depend on certain immutable criteria (total deafness, auditory response to electrical stimulation of the round window, patient's motivation), but other criteria are also described and discussed (socialization level, cochlear ossification, and preoperative electrophysiologic data).

Inalienable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Universities are losing their sense of public responsibility and social purpose | Peter Scott Read more Ministers will now have the power to revoke the royal charters of many older universities previously regarded as near-inalienable.
  • (2) She observed soberly that "the moment human beings lacked their own government and had to fall back upon their minimum rights, no authority was left to protect them and no institution was willing to guarantee them … Loss of national rights was identical with loss of human rights … The rights of man, supposedly inalienable, proved to be unenforceable … whenever people appeared who were no longer citizens of any sovereign state."
  • (3) Merkel delivered her own kind of blow, on the day of his election, stating that cooperation with the US could only exist on the basis of values, which meant respect for the inalienable dignity of mankind, whatever one’s origins or beliefs.
  • (4) As a result, there's nothing this bogeyman oligarch could actually do to the mountain: it's effectively dually owned, the rich person owns the mountain but the farmers have an inalienable right to the grazing.
  • (5) Education is not a privilege of the rich and well-to-do; it is the inalienable right of every child.
  • (6) "The right to enrichment does not need to be recognised because, according to the NPT [nuclear non-proliferation treaty], this right is inalienable," the foreign minister said.
  • (7) Resolution 4009, sponsored by Republican senator Margaret Sitte, proposes to amend North Dakota's constitution by adding "the inalienable right to life of every human being at any stage of development must be recognized and defended."
  • (8) This paper examines some of the fundamental issues underlying the 'rights of nurses' in the context of the declaration of a belief in the inalienable rights of all members of society.
  • (9) Aside from antimicrobiotic therapy, the training of micturition discipline is an inalienable part in preventing urinary tract infections.
  • (10) The same is true of cats qat: no one should mistake their inalienable right to find cats qat disgusting with a right to interfere with the personal choices and pleasures of others.
  • (11) Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic energy Agency, IAEA, told Press TV : "These kind of resolutions have not had any effect on prevention of Iran benefiting from its inalienable right under the NPT and the statute of the IAEA".
  • (12) Since 1996, 18 states have amended their constitutions to establish hunting and fishing as inalienable rights.
  • (13) And he is part of a growing trend in that country; others have also championed the inalienable rights of all Iranian citizens.
  • (14) Some have argued that the article in the non-proliferation treaty (NPT) which declares that nothing in the agreement affects the "inalienable right" to "develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes" should be seen as qualifying the right of enrichment.
  • (15) Clean air and water, and a livable climate are inalienable human rights.
  • (16) I make that claim because I believe the Russian people, no less than Americans, are endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
  • (17) It is a weapon Madrid has used before, trying to bully Gibraltar into a sovereignty arrangement that would have us abandon our inalienable status as a self-governing British Overseas Territory and become an unwilling part of Spain,” Picardo wrote in an opinion piece published on the new Politico Europe website just before the UK general elections in May that gave Cameron’s Conservative Party a surprise absolute majority in Westminster.
  • (18) But she believed in a person's inalienable obligation to society.
  • (19) As political sovereignty is not transferred to the state, not only are civil rights inalienable but so are political liberties, above all the right to determine and to deliberate laws.
  • (20) Though he spoke more poetically – some might say obtusely – about immigration, “the family” and climate change, citing his belief in the Golden Rule, Francis said, “This conviction has led me, from the beginning of my ministry, to advocate at different levels for the global abolition of the death penalty.” “I am convinced that this way is the best, since every life is sacred, every human person is endowed with an inalienable dignity, and society can only benefit from the rehabilitation of those convicted of crimes,” he continued.