What's the difference between irrepressible and unyielding?

Irrepressible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not capable of being repressed, restrained, or controlled; as, irrepressible joy; an irrepressible conflict.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Crucially, these irrepressible fluctuations provide a natural explanation for the temperature fluctuations observed by Planck.
  • (2) Inspired by Gareth Bale, Wales were irrepressible as they subjected Russia to a humiliating defeat and secured their place in the knockout stage of Euro 2016 as group winners.
  • (3) As ruthless as Liverpool were with their finishing, in particular the irrepressible Luis Suárez , who scored twice to take his tally for the season to 22, Stoke were guilty of some calamitous defending and contributed largely to their own downfall.
  • (4) He's irrepressible, so he finds a way to overcome what obstacles they give him.
  • (5) Trailing 2-1 at one stage, Liverpool responded in emphatic fashion through a hat-trick from the irrepressible Luis Suárez, who took his tally for the season to 28 in 25 appearances, two goals from Martin Skrtel and another for Daniel Sturridge.
  • (6) With David Silva irrepressible, City created so many chances it seemed faintly ridiculous that they should face the prospect of further dropped points away from home, however boldly Fulham contributed to a real thriller.
  • (7) So too were ideological debates that had supposedly long been settled; that catchphrase of our age, “there is no alternative”, was confronted by myriad tiny, irrepressible political grenades that detonated deep inside countless imaginations.
  • (8) "I have a gift and I am gifting it to you," the irrepressible Italian nun told judges when she started out in March in the amateur contest.
  • (9) The Zymomonas mobilis phoA gene, encoding a phosphate-irrepressible alkaline phosphatase (ZAPase), was cloned and its expression was studied in phoA mutants of Escherichia coli.
  • (10) Once Liverpool had mustered some rhythm of their own, they were irrepressible.
  • (11) The monkey made irrepressible saccades toward the contralateral visual field where cells in the SNr at the injection site had their visual or movement field.
  • (12) Its spirit seems to hark back, past Shakespeare, to Chaucer, enabling Dickens to embody something quintessentially and irrepressibly English.
  • (13) In spite of a constant and irrepressible growth of sprouts from the proximal stump of peripheral nerves that have been injured, functional recovery varies greatly from one case to another.
  • (14) Ai Weiwei is only the best known, but he remains a crucial figure, one irrepressible man living in truth who reveals the billion lies attending China’s advance into the world.
  • (15) Irrepressibly bright and spirited, Ben experienced life at full tilt.
  • (16) Goals from Ramiro Funes Mori and the irrepressible Romelu Lukaku, his 19th of the season, sandwiched a rare composed finish from Jesús Navas to give Martínez the advantage he craved and the tangible reward he needed to convince the growing doubters .
  • (17) That ought to be the case,” Eubank Sr says, “but I have not seen anyone who has his irrepressibility, relentlessness, speed, power, spite and control.
  • (18) Monday night’s victor in Nice will know the hosts can be both vulnerable and irrepressible.
  • (19) Chelsea were irrepressible, but Leicester never hinted at resistance.
  • (20) In this case, and if it assumes the features of strong and irrepressible pain, it can probably be related to sudden and remarkable hematic harvest in subcapsular space or, owing to its breach, in perirenal space.

Unyielding


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In these patients, the conservative treatment by bouginage could not be continued due to a stricture unyielding for dilatation or early recurrence of the stricture after a number of dilatations.
  • (2) Suturing of these ostia is occasionally difficult because of an unyielding calcified vessel wall.
  • (3) The captain, Rio Ferdinand, was nearly as unyielding.
  • (4) Its enlargement of the lower portion overlying the basal portion of the heart formed an unyielding, tense membrane.
  • (5) The inefficient application of an unyielding (non-inertial) lap and diagonal seat belt permitted this injury, although one does not know what other injuries might have occurred had the belt not been worn.
  • (6) Recommendations to avoid this complication include shortening of the forearm at the osteotomy site and the release of unyielding soft tissue restraints.
  • (7) Although this study supported the thesis that a porous HA matrix can function as a bone graft substitute, it is noted that the unyielding nature of the implant blocks, compared to granules, requires a solution to the challenge of long-term denture support without ulceration before it can be used with clinical confidence.
  • (8) If Hollywood needed an emblematic heroine for a year of hard times and tough decisions, it came in the form of Jennifer Lawrence: resolute, unyielding and somehow old beyond her age.
  • (9) Climate change provides an unyielding science-based deadline.
  • (10) But he was more than just cinema's great choreographer of scale, the man Anthony Quinn likened to a general, commanding his troops and preparing for battle out in the blazing Arabian desert, or the unyielding Burmese jungle, or on the frostbitten Eastern Front.
  • (11) And there is the flinty personality, sharp, jagged, unyielding.
  • (12) The unyielding response of Italy, France and Germany came amidst a tsunami of global condemnation for Trump’s decision to renege on an agreement made by 195 countries after decades of negotiation.
  • (13) This happens in an area in which the deep branch of the radial nerve crossed some narrow structures which are unyielding and have more compression strength (tense cords of connective tissue Fig.
  • (14) Chen Xi once saw the one-child policy as a brick wall, unyielding and inevitable.
  • (15) Philosophers first, then early academic physiologists began to exhibit interest in pain, that all too common phenomenon, only too often unyielding to theoretical as well as practical efforts.
  • (16) This procedure consisted of the application of a rigid clip with a fixed and unyielding gap to the left renal artery and removal of the right kidney.
  • (17) He admired, and liked, practical people, especially those who had tasted some experience of life outside the City and Whitehall; he often appeared unyielding and unforgiving to the fumbling contradictions of political life, and he certainly had a very low threshold of patience with fools.
  • (18) As it was, the dominant performer in the stalemate was a resourceful and unyielding centre-half, United's Nemanja Vidic.
  • (19) It’s the work of the old masters, whoever your masters are, really, that remind you that you have to be singular, inflexible, unyielding in your own work so that even the struggle, that very struggle to achieve, becomes its own reward.
  • (20) But dogma has a habit of being unyielding, and Corbyn shows few signs of being able to develop fresh responses to a world that has changed out of recognition since his formative political impulses of the late 70s: what to do about the growing influence of Islamic State, the ethics of gene editing or the challenges that technology presents to issues as diverse as employment or transport.