What's the difference between incontestable and incontrovertible?

Incontestable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not contestable; not to be disputed; that cannot be called in question or controverted; incontrovertible; indisputable; as, incontestable evidence, truth, or facts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After presenting some incontestable facts of CSF-physiology the actual and quite controversial opinions on ventricular and extraventricular sources of CSF as well as the mechanism of CSF-absorption are discussed.
  • (2) Because the longer the league dawdles in its headquarters' backyard, the closer Orlando is to its stadium deal, making its franchise allocation incontestable.
  • (3) We have entered into rigorous and objective work that should be incontestable and which will have to take account of commitments for the past.
  • (4) This was incontestably a nonscarring rolling-inwards of the upper lid.
  • (5) Sonographic diagnosis was demonstrated by incontestably safe documentation.
  • (6) Whilst a strong genetic component to the aetiology of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is incontestable, progress in identifying the specific genetic determinants involved in its pathogenesis has been slow.
  • (7) These facts, together with the absence of clinical or humoral side effects incontestably bear out the efficacy of the drug in controlling the number and the intensity of painful attacks of coronary origin.
  • (8) The chatter about the result of the Eastleigh byelection may have its overheated aspects, but at its heart is something incontestable.
  • (9) The IF technique has an incontestable advantage as regards the detection of the simultaneous presence of several infectious agents in the same patient.
  • (10) If a cold nodule is positive with 201 T1, surgery is incontestably indicated, as such a finding correlates with the existence of a thyroid tumor (benign follicular adenoma or carcinoma) in 89.5% of the observed cases.
  • (11) Vitamin E depletion, in combination with different ascorbic acid concentrations, showed that vitamin E deficiency is not an incontestable model system for enhanced sensitivity to lipid peroxidation in all organs.
  • (12) Hereby, pherograms with technically incontestable separations are acquired with a running time of 70 min at 180 V.
  • (13) What is incontestable is that Timpson was a thoroughly unflappable professional, who was not afraid of getting up at 3am to face any challenge.
  • (14) The judge added that he had to decide that "the conduct of US officials acting outside the US was unlawful, in circumstances where there are no clear and incontrovertible standards for doing so and where there is incontestable evidence that such an inquiry would be damaging to the national interest".
  • (15) In 1948, our ancestors created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , which among other things upheld access to asylum as an incontestable human right.
  • (16) That he commissioned a crime of aggression – waging an unprovoked war, described by the Nuremberg tribunal as "the supreme international crime" – looks incontestable.
  • (17) Belt usage on back seats is still unsatisfactory (20%), although here too, the effect on injuries of the belt is incontestable, taking into consideration occupant interaction.
  • (18) Computer processing of carotidograms is an incontestable methodical asset.
  • (19) In the authors' opinion, earlier writings have not proved incontestably the occurence of a genuine osteochondritis dissecans of the scaphoid bone.
  • (20) But, frustrated on every front, he began to look inwards, confining himself to the only arena, Libya itself, where his absolute writ ran incontestably.

Incontrovertible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute; indisputable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seven incontrovertible arguments show that the only valid measurement unit for elastic stockings is the millimetre of mercury and not a grading system.
  • (2) Our aim is to provide incontrovertible proof of this hypothesis, reporting the results of systematic stool examinations for Campylobacter in the stools as well as 5 new cases of septicaemia.
  • (3) The case that Bagosora personally ordered the murder of Rwanda's prime minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana and the killing of 10 Belgian peacekeepers, and then unleashed the genocide against the Tutsi minority was, the prosecutors claim, as important for the fact that it established an incontrovertible body of evidence for the planning and organisation of a genocide as it was for establishing its agent.
  • (4) When I ask both brothers about the incontrovertible blemishes on the last government's record, the policy of locking up children at Yarl's Wood, say, or the cavernous gap between executive reward and the minimum wage, they offer vague mea culpas.
  • (5) As pluralistic as our society may be, and no matter how relevant cultural and subcultural values may be, it is an incontrovertible fact that, by exceedingly early childbearing, poor teenagers who are black immeasurably increase their inherent disadvantages to pursue education and acquire marketable skills, not to mention attractive jobs.
  • (6) Laurent Fabius said he believed there was now incontrovertible proof that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the 21 August gas attack, while Sergei Lavrov said it was still unclear who carried it out.
  • (7) If they can, the argument goes, then the urgency of addressing the problem becomes incontrovertible; if it doesn't, then it allows countries to continue delaying action or reducing their commitments.
  • (8) None of these proposed mechanisms incontrovertibly excludes the other and complex interrelationships may exist.
  • (9) Despite incontrovertable evidence demonstrating the unique immunosuppressive capabilities of antihymocyte globulin (ATG) in animals, its value in clinical transplantation has remained inconclusive.
  • (10) "I have tested this, trying with and without the card in my wallet and the evidence is incontrovertible.
  • (11) Given this situation the right of the patient to a full explanation of the diagnosis and the rationale of the treatment offered seems to be incontrovertible.
  • (12) Hickman parries this by pointing to such non-rock Record Store Day releases as a 7-inch single by One Direction and three albums of classical music conducted by Herbert von Karajan, but it seems to me that the point is almost incontrovertible: to use the vocabulary of the 1980s, much of the energy that goes into the event is unmistakably rockist, and the festivities often feel like a day-long benefit for an entire musical idiom: Live Aid meets the Antiques Roadshow, with the aim of keeping the guitars ringing out for another year.
  • (13) The presence of a seatbelt sign across the abdomen is not incontrovertible evidence that a laparotomy must be done, but its presence should create a high index of suspicion for serious visceral injury.
  • (14) More than this, he has one incontrovertible advantage over anyone who might think about usurping him: he is a Kim.
  • (15) And there was, after all, the incontrovertible fact of the video.
  • (16) However, the negativity of this test cannot be considered as an incontrovertible proof of the absence of coronary sensitivity to vasoconstriction.
  • (17) Nevertheless, incontrovertible proof of causality should not be required before regulations are made to protect public health.
  • (18) The use of varicocelectomy for the treatment of subfertility seems to be incontrovertible.
  • (19) 1.41pm GMT 11 min: ‘England are playing some tidy football,’ exclaims the BBC’s John Motson, shocked by a display of incontrovertible Anglo-competence.
  • (20) When one man is said to have called another a “pleb”, but no incontrovertible evidence exists that he has done so, how do you get to the truth?