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Irreconcilable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not reconcilable; implacable; incompatible; inconsistent; disagreeing; as, irreconcilable enemies, statements.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Conclusion In this case there has always been and, despite the efforts of the prosecution team to resolve issues, there remains an irreconcilable conflict between Dr Patel on the one hand and the other experts on the other as to the cause of death.
  • (2) "The irony of welcoming to the London 2012 Olympic Games an individual who is alleged to have led an organised and brutal repression of athletes because they peacefully exercised their internationally recognised right to freedom of expression and association during Bahrain's Arab Spring would be a blow to all athletes around the world, and irreconcilable with the UK commitment to human rights and claimed support to peaceful pro-democracy movements," the ECCHR said.
  • (3) In the News Corp report , Rafter said the rift with Tomic remained deep and possibly irreconcilable after his dumping from Australia’s Davis Cup team over his Wimbledon post-match outburst.
  • (4) As the documents reveal, there are now “irreconcilable” differences between the European Union’s and America’s positions.
  • (5) Valls himself has long referred to what he called two “irreconcilable” wings of the party.
  • (6) The overall outcome from the different viewpoints has been almost irreconcilable contradiction.
  • (7) "The reason for your involuntary separation of employment was based upon on irreconcilable conflict between the laws, discipline, and teaching of the Catholic Church and your relationship – formalized by an act of marriage in Iowa – to a person of the same sex," the Diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph said in its letter of dismissal.
  • (8) Senior Liberal Democrats are already jockeying for position to replace Tim Farron, after he stepped down as party leader, citing an irreconcilable conflict between his deeply held Christian beliefs and political leadership.
  • (9) For those who do not accept this necessity, I contend that it is necessary metatheoretically, in order to deal with those moral agents with irreconcilably different notions of the morally good.
  • (10) Those who are already notionally opposed to Abbott, Pearson and Mundine on these issues, and many more besides, will be permanently irreconcilable on any initiative, symbolic or practical, that Abbott now proposes in the Indigenous space.
  • (11) After discussing conflicts of obligation, it is asserted that loyalties are divided only when the demands of the various relationships involved are irreconcilable.
  • (12) If the UK returns to a system of bilateral arrangements with EU countries, we may find ourselves once again exporting criminals to Spain, like we did before the EAW came into force, because of irreconcilable differences between our criminal justice systems.
  • (13) I appreciate that simultaneously being London's mayor and serving as Conservative leader are apparently irreconcilable (though there is certainly no difficulty about being the mayor while also sitting as an MP).
  • (14) So part of our challenge is reconciling these two seemingly irreconcilable truths that war is sometimes necessary, and war is at some level an expression of human feelings.
  • (15) In the case of Ladele against Islington council we have a clash of two irreconcilable moral frameworks: one that sees human worth and dignity derived from God and one derives them from the nature of humanity.
  • (16) Indeed, even Miliband’s most irreconcilable critics are clear why they should avoid plotting of the non-lethal variety.
  • (17) If inter-agency differences are irreconcilable, as a last resort CEQ can submit the referral and its response together with its recommendation to the President for action.
  • (18) And Oliver Cromwell’s inclusion, which part of me approves of and another part cannot stomach, arouses irreconcilable passions too.
  • (19) "There's an attempt among this section of the political class to try to find a balance between what the powers-that-be will accept and what the square will accept, but the reality is that those two things are completely irreconcilable."
  • (20) "China's recent behaviour, as demonstrated by its advance into the surrounding waters … is irreconcilable with the existing order in many ways."

Reconcile


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled.
  • (v. t.) To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.
  • (v. t.) To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; -- followed by with or to.
  • (v. t.) To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.
  • (v. i.) To become reconciled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
  • (2) The reports of rod-dominated psychophysical spectral sensitivity from the deprived eye of monocularly lid-sutured (MD) monkeys are intriguing but difficult to reconcile with the absence of any reported deprivation effects in retina.
  • (3) We suggest a model for transcription that involves the participation of a nucleoskeleton at the active site and reconcile the contradictory results obtained using different salt concentrations.
  • (4) Describing his blueprint for Parliament 2.0, Bercow says in a speech to the Hansard Society on Wednesday that parliament needs to "reconcile traditional concepts and institutions of representative democracy with the technological revolution witnessed over the past decade or two, which has created both a demand for and an opportunity to establish a digital democracy".
  • (5) His achilles heel would be reconciling disparate sections of the grassroots party and restoring the fissures in the parliamentary party.
  • (6) This review considers the biophysics of penetrating missile wounds, highlights some of the more common misconceptions and seeks to reconcile the conflicting and confusing management doctrines that are promulgated in the literature-differences that arise not only from two scenarios, peace and war, but also from misapprehensions of the wounding process.
  • (7) The difficulty in reconciling these results with the preeminent role assigned to the hypothalamus in the organization of predatory aggressive behavior was considered.
  • (8) In an attempt to reconcile these opposite amphetamine effects on rotation in terms of dopaminergic mechanisms, a series of 4 experiments were conducted.
  • (9) The current model of the Na+-dependent high-affinity acidic amino acid transport carrier allows the observations to be explained and reconciled with previous seemingly conflicting reports on stimulation of acidic amino acid uptake by low concentrations of K+.
  • (10) Glitzy online lectures, or fancy learning technologies, are difficult to reconcile with this fundamental scepticism.
  • (11) The present study reconciles this conflict by showing that the major form of gastrin in the pyloric antrum is the heptadecpeptide form, while the duodenum contains mainly "big" and almost no heptadecapeptide gastrin.
  • (12) It is difficult to reconcile the properties of this mutant with the chemiosmotic hypothesis.
  • (13) But the space was created by another reconcilation between competing Democrats earlier in the evening.
  • (14) Using a self-paced manual, 8 participants in two groups were taught to write checks, complete deposit slips, and reconcile monthly bank statements.
  • (15) Our results reconcile some apparently conflicting published data and suggest that the mode of antigen association with liposomes considerably influences the pathways by which stimulation occurs.
  • (16) After the Scot sued Rooney over allegations in a biography the pair reconciled but whether Moyes would want him to stay at United is not yet clear, though he will have the final say on the striker's future.
  • (17) This article examines alternative ways of resolving an apparent paradox that has emerged from neuropsychological studies of language development: How can the developmentally stable functional asymmetry ("hemispheric specialization") observed in neurologically intact children be reconciled with the dramatic recovery of function often displayed following unilateral brain damage?
  • (18) It is a means of reconciling yourself with the past.
  • (19) The premature senescence noted in cells from subjects with cystic fibrosis reconciles controversial observations of cell doubling reported in the literature.
  • (20) However, intense investigative efforts over the last several years using pharmacological, biochemical and behavioral approaches have produced results that are increasingly difficult to reconcile with the existence of only two dopamine receptor subtypes.