What's the difference between implacable and unshakable?

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.

Unshakable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not capable of being shaken; firm; fixed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's not egotism, it's something else, a weird unshakeable belief.
  • (2) Whether motivated by fear of failure or the desire to win, the victor's personality type requires the constant assertion of the self – a self in which one can only place the most fervent and unshakeable belief.
  • (3) James Mattis, the new US defence secretary, has reassured his British counterpart that Washington has an “unshakeable commitment” to Nato , despite Donald Trump previously casting the military alliance as obsolete.
  • (4) After five days away from his homeland, Abu Majid is convinced that the four decades of unshakable autocracy he left behind are now steadily unravelling.
  • (5) The residents of the Rock seem to have an unshakeable faith that the odds will always be on their side.
  • (6) In the circumstances, you do have to marvel at that mulishly self-regarding "for any offence caused" – the classic non-apology apology typically proffered by those with a belief in their own absolute probity, which is as unshakeable as it is misplaced.
  • (7) This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable."
  • (8) But despite all the denial and the falls, his commitment to his sport remains unshakeable.
  • (9) The US president, Barack Obama, spoke to the South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, and the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, on Thursday and reaffirmed the “unshakeable US commitment” to their security.
  • (10) Its fans had proved over 40 years that they were unshakably, bloody-mindedly loyal, addicted to the hope of seeing City successful, apparently whatever it took.
  • (11) In a speech that was widely seen as his most supportive of Israel as president, Obama spoke about the US's "unshakeable" commitment to the Jewish state's security, and said that any lasting peace must recognise Israel's "very real security concerns".
  • (12) The framework demonstrates the unshakeable resolve of the two countries in combating and defeating terrorism, including the threat posed by foreign fighters joining extremist groups,” it said.
  • (13) You can quote the many statistics that challenge this view, yet, reinforced by parts of the media and some politicians, it is unshakable.
  • (14) If it seems eccentric to compare Churchill, scion of the Dukes of Marlborough, with Davis, who was brought up in a council flat in south London, then factor in their shared attributes: unshakable self-confidence, a certain vanity, and a capacity to inspire affection and extreme irritation.
  • (15) Sadly, circumstances would keep us apart for six years, during which time we slowly built an unshakable friendship and the eventually basis for our partnership.
  • (16) Open your ears, and you will hear our voice and unshakable anger already on the doorstep of your cell.
  • (17) My confidence in the Egyptian state and its institutions is unequivocal and unshakeable."
  • (18) The duck house is lodged there, unshakeably fixed in the national psyche, despite the fact that newer and bigger scandals have come to take its place: the revelations of phone-hacking in the press and the connected accusations of police corruption, to name but two.
  • (19) The unshakable courage of the students and families in Ayotzinapa are testing the indifference of the Mexican government to the core.
  • (20) She ridicules his unshakeable belief that government is exactly analogous to business.