What's the difference between irreconcilable and uncompromising?

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."

Uncompromising


Definition:

  • (a.) Not admitting of compromise; making no truce or concessions; obstinate; unyielding; inflexible.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ACG shows a dynamic clinical picture; it starts in an eye which is initially uncompromised (group A) and progresses to one of two identifiable advanced stages (groups B and C).
  • (2) Bond's brutal, uncompromising vision of south-London thuggery provoked questions about the nature of theatre.
  • (3) We've got to be tough, we've got to be smart, we've got to be uncompromising.
  • (4) The campaigning arm of the Obama administration issued an uncompromising warning to those senators who destroyed the bill.
  • (5) His approach to external (as well as internal) security and defence issues was uncompromising, and on occasion confrontational, the officials said.
  • (6) The Egyptian delegation reasserted its uncompromising rejection,” he said.
  • (7) Abreu's uncompromising rhetoric and style are reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher.
  • (8) That’s why on balance we are unlikely to see any big spike in the immediate aftermath of this.” Bill Hayton, the author of South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia , said the uncompromising rhetoric coming out of Beijing was to be expected.
  • (9) In one sense, the government’s unwillingness to show its hand while at the same time adopting an uncompromising tone is understandable.
  • (10) That was before Scorsese stepped into the debate with a firmly-worded open letter to the LA Times calling for Blackie to be added to the list of nominees for what he described as "an uncompromising performance as a ferocious guard dog who terrorises children" in Hugo, which is up for 11 Oscars.
  • (11) Although these results suggest a tenuous relationship between scrapie pathology and the integrity of neurotransmitter systems, it is possible that compensatory neurochemical changes in uncompromised neuronal populations may have masked potentially specific neurotransmitter effects.
  • (12) Perhaps the most uncompromising and outspoken member of the post-Soviet political opposition in Russia , Novodvorskaya died in Moscow on 12 July at the age of 64.
  • (13) One of the two candidates to be the next chair of the Police Federation has questioned whether the government wants a better police force after Theresa May delivered an uncompromising speech at its conference , in which she vowed to break the organisation's power.
  • (14) The Republicans, in the wake of their November election victory, had seemed an unstoppable and uncompromising force, one dedicated to ensuring Obama lost in 2012.
  • (15) For an avuncular former teacher, known for a toothy smile and sometimes nicknamed "Fozzie Bear", it adds up to an uncompromising platform designed to cause palpitations in both the Amsterdam stock exchange and European commission corridors.
  • (16) However, induction of ODC activity by (BU)2cAMP was uncompromised by testosterone.
  • (17) A balloon containing drugs will usually pass spontaneously through an uncompromised gastrointestinal tract.
  • (18) Some critics labelled Sadik-Khan “brusque” and uncompromising; others wondered whether such labels tend to stick more easily to the relatively rare women in positions of power.
  • (19) But he has been uncompromising on contentious issues that separate the church from much of modern society.
  • (20) The Lib Dem leader still enjoys wide support from much of the party membership, particularly for his uncompromising stance on remaining in the EU.