What's the difference between incontestable and unassailable?

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.

Unassailable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bernie Sanders sees poll surge after series of record-breaking appearances Read more But Webb, who first announced an exploratory presidential committee in November, joins the race at a time when Clinton’s once unassailable command of Democratic primary looks gradually more vulnerable.
  • (2) The eurozone's second- and third-biggest economies are in trouble, and Germany, the unassailable number one, is worried about being dragged down with them.
  • (3) He sits here before me, an impermeable rock of a man, and his very solidity, the unassailable fact of James Frey, seems strangely reassuring.
  • (4) Yet, perhaps because he wasn't as high-profile as Bradley Manning or as unassailable as Aaron Swartz, Brown hasn't attracted the type of support that can effectively pressure the government.
  • (5) The former Labour prime minister, who towards the end of his time in office in June 2007 branded the media as being like a "feral beast tearing people and reputations to bits" in a speech, said on Monday morning he now felt more comfortable talking about the sometimes unassailable power that newspapers hold without responsibility.
  • (6) It is unassailable that doctors do have that responsibility to protect and promote the health of people in the community.” The case continues in Darwin, with arguments from the medical board yet to be heard.
  • (7) The date has a totemic significance for the regime of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, for whom it represents a traumatic climbdown – a moment in which the military’s apparently unassailable grip on power seemed to slip.
  • (8) Meanwhile, the US, France, the UK and other western powers have been forced to reassess their relationships with regimes that had seemed unassailable.
  • (9) It is as if the victors are unassailable once they have taken the lead.
  • (10) I don't think that there should be anyone in power who's considered unassailable, whether they're a man, woman, black, white."
  • (11) He said the commercial radio business model was "close to breaking point", up against a "dominant, well-fed and in many ways unassailable" BBC.
  • (12) Until a few months ago the state and city of Veracruz, on the Gulf coast, were considered an unassailable stronghold of the Zetas cartel.
  • (13) Romney's widely lauded performance at the debate in front of almost 70 million viewers appears to have had a particularly favourable impact on several groups that had been assumed to be unassailable strongholds for Obama.
  • (14) As he attempts to make his lead in the Republican presidential race unassailable at next week’s Super Tuesday primary contests, Donald Trump is being confronted with resurfaced allegations that he sexually assaulted and tried to rape a woman in the early 1990s.
  • (15) It was during this period that Hitler’s inner circle established an image of him as an unassailable figure who was willing to work tirelessly on behalf of his country, and who would permit no toxins – not even coffee – to enter his body.
  • (16) Nuttall’s predecessor, Nigel Farage, is a master of the grift, leveraging cigarettes, pints of beer and opposition to the metric system into an apparently unassailable cloak of authenticity draped over his privately educated stockbroker carcass.
  • (17) Again she did not need to approach her best but was able to perform when it mattered to establish a virtually unassailable lead over Broersen and the Canadian pre-championships favourite, Brianne Theisen-Eaton, who had all but blown her chances of victory on the opening day.
  • (18) "The brand has sailed through life pretty unassailably and has always succeeded in having a lot of public goodwill behind it."
  • (19) He presents a "clear and unassailable fact: Our deficits are already falling."
  • (20) At the beginning of the month, the New Zealand National party looked all but unassailable.