What's the difference between ineluctable and inexorable?

Ineluctable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible; inevitable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is an ineluctable consequence of improving the computer models of climate change.
  • (2) And in this ineluctable journey, we must wish the "quiet man" godspeed.
  • (3) Based on a review of 13 personal cases an attempt is made to isolate a specific laryngeal lesion: extensive papilloma durum of larynx of almost ineluctable malignant transformation.
  • (4) So you have an ineluctable tendency for regulators to regulate more and more, and for banks to get bigger and bigger.
  • (5) A Rip Van Winkle from 1979 would be astonished that earnings have all but evaporated from British politics, as if pay were as ineluctable as the weather.
  • (6) We can also make a number of other forecasts based on those, and other ineluctable realities about the cost of components in computing.
  • (7) It is the author's conclusion that these and other related formulations lead ineluctably to a concept of mental structure that necessarily incorporates elements of both "deficit" and "drive-defense" models and the paper that follows attempts to develop and explicate that conclusion by means of a detailed examination of relevant parts of Fairbairn's writings.
  • (8) This idea has penetrated deep into the collective consciousness: the idea that poverty is somehow inevitable, ineluctable, a given condition for a significant proportion of humanity.
  • (9) When you sit at the center of the world and are unlikely to ever lack for the basic materials of self-sufficiency, the idea of blind, gnawing resentment – let alone of feeding that resentment even with irrational aims – is ineluctably beyond your ken.
  • (10) Replacement of living poliomyelitis vaccine by inactivated one is ineluctable as complications though exceptional will become less and less accepted, and the surveillance of poliovirus circulation will be facilitated.
  • (11) The rapid rise of the life sciences cannot continue its present course into the twenty-first century without meeting ineluctable limits to expansion.
  • (12) These changes are perhaps not ineluctably associated with aging; they might result from pathological processes that have gone unnoticed.
  • (13) The excision necessary for reasons of comfort and hygiene could not be envisaged unless the ineluctable vast palatine breach opened could be immediately repaired by surgery, any prosthetic solution being excluded.
  • (14) It's a problem that affects at least half-a-dozen European nations and is most obvious in the European Union itself, yet I wonder if this seemingly ineluctable estrangement really has to go all the way in Britain.
  • (15) Greece, ineluctably, is being drawn into a new dance of uncertainty, a rollercoaster ride of high-pressure politics.
  • (16) Thus, genetic determinism is no longer ineluctable.
  • (17) The close and ineluctable links between anatomy and physical anthropology are explored.
  • (18) The author suggests ways of theorizing, and eventually interpreting, the 'breach' in the relationship in terms of the absent, decentred subject, the Desire of the Other, the inherent contingency of our most primitive identifications, and the ineluctable violence and alienation of human interdependency.
  • (19) Whatever one's view of Apple as a manufacturer of digital equipment, as an author of operating systems and designer of software, as a multinational corporation, as a lifestyle statement or as a quasi-religious cult, it remains a matter of ineluctable fact that the introduction of the iPhone just over a year ago changed the smartphone market for ever.
  • (20) Quite how put out you are by that ineluctable truth is a matter of personal taste.

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.