What's the difference between unassailable and unbeatable?

Unassailable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bernie Sanders sees poll surge after series of record-breaking appearances Read more But Webb, who first announced an exploratory presidential committee in November, joins the race at a time when Clinton’s once unassailable command of Democratic primary looks gradually more vulnerable.
  • (2) The eurozone's second- and third-biggest economies are in trouble, and Germany, the unassailable number one, is worried about being dragged down with them.
  • (3) He sits here before me, an impermeable rock of a man, and his very solidity, the unassailable fact of James Frey, seems strangely reassuring.
  • (4) Yet, perhaps because he wasn't as high-profile as Bradley Manning or as unassailable as Aaron Swartz, Brown hasn't attracted the type of support that can effectively pressure the government.
  • (5) The former Labour prime minister, who towards the end of his time in office in June 2007 branded the media as being like a "feral beast tearing people and reputations to bits" in a speech, said on Monday morning he now felt more comfortable talking about the sometimes unassailable power that newspapers hold without responsibility.
  • (6) It is unassailable that doctors do have that responsibility to protect and promote the health of people in the community.” The case continues in Darwin, with arguments from the medical board yet to be heard.
  • (7) The date has a totemic significance for the regime of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, for whom it represents a traumatic climbdown – a moment in which the military’s apparently unassailable grip on power seemed to slip.
  • (8) Meanwhile, the US, France, the UK and other western powers have been forced to reassess their relationships with regimes that had seemed unassailable.
  • (9) It is as if the victors are unassailable once they have taken the lead.
  • (10) I don't think that there should be anyone in power who's considered unassailable, whether they're a man, woman, black, white."
  • (11) He said the commercial radio business model was "close to breaking point", up against a "dominant, well-fed and in many ways unassailable" BBC.
  • (12) Until a few months ago the state and city of Veracruz, on the Gulf coast, were considered an unassailable stronghold of the Zetas cartel.
  • (13) Romney's widely lauded performance at the debate in front of almost 70 million viewers appears to have had a particularly favourable impact on several groups that had been assumed to be unassailable strongholds for Obama.
  • (14) As he attempts to make his lead in the Republican presidential race unassailable at next week’s Super Tuesday primary contests, Donald Trump is being confronted with resurfaced allegations that he sexually assaulted and tried to rape a woman in the early 1990s.
  • (15) It was during this period that Hitler’s inner circle established an image of him as an unassailable figure who was willing to work tirelessly on behalf of his country, and who would permit no toxins – not even coffee – to enter his body.
  • (16) Nuttall’s predecessor, Nigel Farage, is a master of the grift, leveraging cigarettes, pints of beer and opposition to the metric system into an apparently unassailable cloak of authenticity draped over his privately educated stockbroker carcass.
  • (17) Again she did not need to approach her best but was able to perform when it mattered to establish a virtually unassailable lead over Broersen and the Canadian pre-championships favourite, Brianne Theisen-Eaton, who had all but blown her chances of victory on the opening day.
  • (18) "The brand has sailed through life pretty unassailably and has always succeeded in having a lot of public goodwill behind it."
  • (19) He presents a "clear and unassailable fact: Our deficits are already falling."
  • (20) At the beginning of the month, the New Zealand National party looked all but unassailable.

Unbeatable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We went through a run of results where we were almost unbeatable but since then we have tailed off a bit.
  • (2) More important than that in a short series they had an almost unbeatable trio in probable Cy Young winner Max Scherzer, a quality starter having his best season in Anibal Sanchez and Justin Verlander-In-A-Down-Year (which is still pretty good).
  • (3) Tancock is all but unbeatable over a single length, but has never been as strong over double the distance.
  • (4) Miami fans were exiting American Airlines Arena, the yellow rope was already up , and b'ball fans thought they were about to witness the San Antonio Spurs win their fifth NBA Championship by knocking out a Miami Heat team that was almost unbeatable during the regular season .
  • (5) Given the fallout from the Brexit vote, this was a competitive category this year, but Perloff’s rant about business rates is unbeatable.
  • (6) Dave Forsey, chief executive, said: "Despite tougher comparisons during the period, Sports Retail continues to perform well driven by our on-going focus on exceptional quality, unbeatable value and availability.
  • (7) I tried not to think the Kenyans were unbeatable, just gave it my all and as I hit the bell, [I thought], ‘Don’t regret this last lap.’” The field events were delayed by 20 minutes because of the heavy rain that flooded the runways and the women’s pole vault in particular veered dangerously close to farce.
  • (8) The Conservative party is neither strong nor unbeatable.
  • (9) These prices would be good value for a pretty ordinary B&B in a regional town – for chic digs in London, where you can easily pay £100 for access to a small dingy moth sanctuary, they’re basically unbeatable.
  • (10) Social atomisation may be the best sales strategy ever devised, and continuous marketing looks like an unbeatable programme for atomisation.
  • (11) As a Scot, maybe I've a bias towards the wildness and the colours of this landscape, but the beauty of the timeless West Highland coast on such a sun-drenched day is unbeatable.
  • (12) but became nearly unbeatable when he made his way back into the lineup.
  • (13) N’Golo Kanté is simply unbeatable in midfield and captain Wes Morgan has come on leaps and bounds too.
  • (14) One patient had unbeating nystagmus that diminished with upgaze, downgaze, or convergence.
  • (15) Caballero could not keep out Emre Can’s impudent little pitch-wedge to get the penalties underway but thereafter he was unbeatable, diving to his left to turn away a decent attempt by Lucas Leiva, a hesitant one from Philippe Coutinho, and then the other way to beat out Adam Lallana’s effort for his third successive save.
  • (16) The BBC boys are full of praise for Walker, with Terry Venables describing him as ‘unbeatable’.
  • (17) But cutting the price further this week, Tony Baines, managing director for corporate buying at Aldi, said: “In order to deliver outstanding quality at unbeatable prices, we have reduced the retail price of our Back to School uniform package from £4 to £3.69.” Lidl said its collection – comprising 41 separate items and including 100% cotton fabrics and leather shoes – could save British families with two children up to £2,854 over their entire primary school education.
  • (18) What a terrible indictment of a golfer who was once judged unbeatable on a Sunday afternoon.
  • (19) No matter who we’re playing, we play three in midfield – Drinkwater in the middle and Kanté either side,” explained the club’s chief scout, Steve Walsh, in a fairly unbeatable description that tells us all we need to know.
  • (20) If the lack of a hate figure was the gaping hole for the yes side, Nick Clegg provided an unbeatable one for the noes.