What's the difference between incontrovertible and inexorable?

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?

Inexorable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; as, an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This condition is a genodermatosis, seen chiefly around the shores of the Mediterranean, characterised by early pigment disturbances which progress virtually inexorably towards a diffuse epitheliomatosis which usually results in death before the age of 20 years.
  • (2) Or will it slip inexorably into the unchartered waters of default and economic catastrophe?
  • (3) At this stage, however, the allure of big money Super Pacs has been much stronger on the GOP side, although their ineffectiveness in slowing Trump’s inexorable rise has spawned grousing and finger pointing.
  • (4) Sceptics think Prokhorov will be one of half a dozen "approved" candidates used to soak up discontent with his soothing talk of inexorable change, while posing no real threat to Putin's supremacy.
  • (5) It appears that once a dose of asbestos sufficient to initiate the disease has been retained it is inexorably progressive.
  • (6) This was the logic that initially led the coalition to reject Heathrow expansion, so why is it now, indulged if not quite supported by the opposition, drifting inexorably towards a new runway in the south-east?
  • (7) And after all the waiting, the killing and the tears, the wheel of history turned inexorably, and all who watched knew it would never turn back.
  • (8) But imagine that the victim of an industrial accident with a paralyzed hand could achieve new levels of function by inducing axonal regrowth through a synthetic nerve guidance channel; or that a Parkinsonian patient's symptoms could be relieved by implanting in his brain neural tissue encased in a selectively permeable polymer envelope; or that the inexorable progression of the vascular complications of juvenile diabetes could be stopped, even reversed, by a membrane-protected xenograft of insulin-producing tissue.
  • (9) Throughout the inexorable evolution of the disease, the psychiatrist has to pay attention to the global situation: medical, social and legal.
  • (10) And some of the more massive trends heading into the future – the inexorables of population growth and global warming, emergent economies and regions with their own claims to truth and justice – would seem largely resistant to the glittering technical fixes that future-types of the past have put their faith in.
  • (11) And hurt a number of people.” There is a pause, during which one feels Franzen leaning inexorably, and rather endearingly, in a direction that can do him no good.
  • (12) Even the seemingly inexorable rise of digital media has not emerged unscathed from the downturn.
  • (13) Was justice itself falling prey to the menacing mood of rightwing fanaticism that has pervaded the country with the inexorable rise of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn?
  • (14) The left’s weakness has been its belief that there is an inexorable direction to history, that triumph is preordained All of which means that the party’s conference in Brighton in September must be a rigorous campaign launch rather than a carnival of celebration.
  • (15) It was Tesco's seeming ability to act with impunity that fuelled Simms' determination to write a book exposing how the inexorable rise of supermarkets is bad for everyone - from poorly paid workers in the field, to small, independent shops fast going out of business, to the over-exploited natural environment.
  • (16) We conclude that bone marrow transplantation can potentially save patients with advanced thalassemia from an otherwise inexorable progression to death from the complications of blood transfusions.
  • (17) While led by private investment, government often encouraged the process with schemes such as the popular home improvement grants of the 1960s and 70s, hoping to slow what seemed at the time the inexorable decline of the inner cities.
  • (18) To the dismay of inexperienced politicians in his left-dominated coalition, creditors have dug in their heels with cash reserves drying up inexorably as negotiations over a deal to unlock further bailout funds have gone to the wire.
  • (19) Nevertheless, perception is key and more and more South Africans view the ANC's glass as half-empty: a jaded organisation tarnished by corruption, delivering too little too slowly and in inexorable decline.
  • (20) One sees ageing as an inexorable process of decline, and old people as purely a burden, a drain on resources.