What's the difference between inviolable and unattackable?
Inviolable
Definition:
(a.) Not violable; not susceptible of hurt, wound, or harm (used with respect to either physical or moral damage); not susceptible of being profaned or corrupted; sacred; holy; as, inviolable honor or chastity; an inviolable shrine.
(a.) Not capable of being broken or violated; as, an inviolable covenant, agreement, promise, or vow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trierweiler has broken a fundamental principle of French political life, an unwritten law inherited from the Ancien Régime and perpetuated by France's revolutionary nomenklatura, that the private life – and by that I mean sex life – of a public figure must remain inviolable.
(2) The former foreign secretary, William Hague, warned earlier this month that central bankers could lose their independence if they ignored public anger over low interest rates, while Michael Gove, the leading pro-leave campaigner and former cabinet minister, compared Carney to the Chinese emperor Ming , whose “person was held to be inviolable and without imperfections” and whose critics were flayed alive.
(3) The two organisms may behave in clinically indistinguishable fashion and probably justify a more cautious approach to the clinical syndromes we have considered the inviolate domain of the gonococcus.
(4) The principles of atraumatic technique, as set down many years ago by Bunnell, remain inviolate.
(5) Since the moment of fecundation the human embryo is endowed with the properties of unity and uniqueness and its existence is therefore inviolable.
(6) This paper examines the logic of this position and argues that once the fetus has passed a certain stage of neurological development it is a person, and that then the whole issue becomes one of balancing of rights: the right-to-life of the fetal person against the right to autonomy and inviolability of the woman; and that the fetal right usually wins.
(7) Putin's new relativism over non-interference and inviolability of borders raised incidentally the prospect of a possible geopolitical trade-off.
(8) The court said : Inviolability of privacy in group association may in many circumstances be indispensable to preservation of freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.
(9) Last autumn, he breached the cap on welfare spending he had, just a few months earlier, insisted would be inviolate.
(10) In this paper we reject the "sanctity-of-life" view, which holds that all human lives, irrespective of their quality or kind, are equally valuable and inviolable.
(11) Updated at 3.54pm GMT 3.38pm GMT Putin has spoken with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the phone and their positions on the Ukraine crisis are “close”, the Kremlin said, according to Reuters: The Kremlin said the presidents of the veto-wielding U.N. Security Council nation expressed hope that “the steps taken by the Russian leadership will allow for the reduction of ... tension and provide for the security of Russian-speaking citizens living in Crimea and the eastern regions of Ukraine.” Writing last week in Foreign Policy, Timothy Snyder argued that Russia’s Ukraine play could have long-term negative consequences for the integrity of the long border it shares with China: If Russia excludes its own borders from the general international standard of inviolability, it might face some unwanted challenges down the road.
(12) People have made calculations about how they are to handle the costs of old age, bringing up their children, physical incapacity or the lack of work in their area on the basis of social contributions to their circumstance that they reckoned on being an inviolable part of the deal.
(13) "Wherever the IMF has gone, its first and inviolate rule everywehre has been the levelling of wages and pensions," said Antonis Samaras, the country's conservative main opposition leader.
(14) Flag's challenge to the notion that symbols of state are fixed and inviolable - that they are not, under any circumstance, open to interpretation - was received at the time as blasphemous.
(15) On the path to his little cabin, he relates, there was a dead horse, whose aroma repulsed him but heartened him with "the assurance it gave me of the strong appetite and inviolable health of Nature".
(16) But in terms of the school system it has to start in primary school – the respect for girls, the recognition of gender equality as an inviolable norm, needs to be so deeply ingrained into children that by the time they grow up and become adolescents it's really part of them.
(17) The concept of the inviolability of the human person constitutes the basic tenet of biomedical ethics.
(18) First as Cassius Clay, then as Ali, this remarkable boxer totally reset the marks, utterly changed all inviolate techniques and tenets.
(19) The ramifications of this latest intrusion by surgeons into a previously inviolate anatomic area have involved neurosurgeons, ophthalmologists, anesthesiologists, and dental and psycho-social disciplines.
(20) Although these cytologic criteria remain valid, they are not inviolate and exceptions exist that may result in diagnostic ambiguity.
Unattackable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Two of the four tyrosine residues react, and it is assumed that these are the exposed groups leaving the buried groups unattacked.
(2) The results showed that 316L stainless steel and the Co-Cr-Mo alloy were prone to accelerated corrosion, whilst the Ti6AI4V alloy remained unattacked.
(3) Immediately after the last attack the victim mice were decapitated along with unattacked control mice of the appropriate strain, and plasma norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine (E) were measured.
(5) Larval densities on pasture were highest after the first saturating rains during the spring-summer period and most of these larvae migrated from unattacked pats deposited in winter.
(6) AISI 316L stainless steel suffered localized corrosion in open-circuit experiments whilst the other materials remained unattacked.
(7) Benorylate can probably penetrate into the synovial membrane like its metabolites salicylate and paracetamol; it remains, however, to be examined whether the metabolites are distributed differently in different synovial areas (active inflamed and unattacked synovial tissue, respectively) in the same way as benorylate per se.
(8) Unlike the reaction there of simple alkylators, two nonessential thiols per subunit are left unattacked when this inactivation reaction is complete.