What's the difference between irreclaimable and unreformable?
Irreclaimable
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being reclaimed.
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Unreformable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Henceforth, like many other dissidents, both open and undeclared, Mitrokhin concluded that the system was unreformable and would have to be replaced.
(2) It is not just the City that is resisting calls for structural change; the economy at large is almost entirely unreformed.
(3) A tiny number of officers trained to degree-standard qualifications "vanish into the cesspool" of an unreformed system, according to one US army police trainer.
(4) Though his criticisms of the KGB's unreformed bureaucracy were mild by western standards, they led to his transfer, late in 1956, from operations to the relative backwater of the archives, where he served for the remainder of his career.
(5) We cannot continue to write bigger and bigger cheques to remain a member of an unreformed and uncompetitive European Union.
(6) Auda is more of a problem: his character is portrayed as an unreformed savage who cares only for violence, treasure and his own pompous self-image.
(7) In fact, the truly risky option in this referendum will be to stay in an unreformed EU, handing over ever more control of our economy and our borders to political bureaucrats whom we cannot vote out and who have made clear that they do not care what we think.
(8) The monarchy’s foundations are less secure than is often assumed, which is why royalists should be worried that the Queen will leave behind an institution as unreformed as it is undemocratic.
(9) But giving free money to an unreformed banking industry has – surprise!
(10) Johnson has been a poor so-called "commissioner", leaving Britain's most flatulent gendarmerie inefficient and unreformed.
(11) The rituals are well known – the cursory phone call, or brief summons to No 10, an expression of half-felt gratitude, and a mumbled explanation about the need to find space for new faces, and, if the departing minister is lucky, an exchange of public correspondence thanking them for their work on the reform of local government finance, coupled with a private promise of a seat in the unreformed Lords.
(12) No recognition that, left unreformed, there is no incentive for families to plan and prepare," Burstow wrote in the Daily Telegraph .
(13) Mullah Omar remains at large, and ideologically unreformed.
(14) "So can we really ask them to keep paying their taxes into unreformed gold-plated public sector pension pots?
(15) For the coalition to abandon its proposals, after spending £12m on this review, shows just how unreformable Westminster is," the spokesperson said.
(16) But to reach those heights and win popular backing, Sisi has been forced to adopt the vocabulary of revolution, however insincerely, and issue promises – on economic justice, an end to corruption, an improvement in living standards – that his unreformed state will not be able to deliver.
(17) The governor has warned, repeatedly and almost certainly correctly, that leaving the banks broadly unreformed will lead to a fresh and perhaps even more serious crisis.
(18) In the case of Podemos, repeatedly attacking la casta (the elites) may seem simple or trite on paper, as some have argued, but expressing your disavowal in the context of Spain’s domination by a corrupt, unreformable “regime of 78” (the year of the post-Franco constitution) which is in thrall to the troika and their friends in the bailed-out banks, as well as 40 years of Francoist patriarchy before that, becomes potentially transcendent.
(19) I told him he can enjoy his non-retirement [a reference to the peer's intention to return to business] in an unreformed House of Lords: I hope not for ever but for some time."
(20) Christopher Jefferies, the Bristol landlord of a flat from which murdered 25-year-old Joanna Yeates disappeared, who was libelled five years ago by the Sun, among other newspapers, said: “The proposed reappointment of Rebekah Brooks, who has never apologised to the victims of her negligent oversight, is yet another sign that we have a press industry that is largely unreformed, unrepentant and unwilling to understand that they have lost the public’s trust.” It is not clear what salary Brooks is likely to be paid on her return, but Darcey is certainly set to receive a hefty pay-off.