What's the difference between unassailable and unshakable?

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.

Unshakable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not capable of being shaken; firm; fixed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's not egotism, it's something else, a weird unshakeable belief.
  • (2) Whether motivated by fear of failure or the desire to win, the victor's personality type requires the constant assertion of the self – a self in which one can only place the most fervent and unshakeable belief.
  • (3) James Mattis, the new US defence secretary, has reassured his British counterpart that Washington has an “unshakeable commitment” to Nato , despite Donald Trump previously casting the military alliance as obsolete.
  • (4) After five days away from his homeland, Abu Majid is convinced that the four decades of unshakable autocracy he left behind are now steadily unravelling.
  • (5) The residents of the Rock seem to have an unshakeable faith that the odds will always be on their side.
  • (6) In the circumstances, you do have to marvel at that mulishly self-regarding "for any offence caused" – the classic non-apology apology typically proffered by those with a belief in their own absolute probity, which is as unshakeable as it is misplaced.
  • (7) This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable."
  • (8) But despite all the denial and the falls, his commitment to his sport remains unshakeable.
  • (9) The US president, Barack Obama, spoke to the South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, and the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, on Thursday and reaffirmed the “unshakeable US commitment” to their security.
  • (10) Its fans had proved over 40 years that they were unshakably, bloody-mindedly loyal, addicted to the hope of seeing City successful, apparently whatever it took.
  • (11) In a speech that was widely seen as his most supportive of Israel as president, Obama spoke about the US's "unshakeable" commitment to the Jewish state's security, and said that any lasting peace must recognise Israel's "very real security concerns".
  • (12) The framework demonstrates the unshakeable resolve of the two countries in combating and defeating terrorism, including the threat posed by foreign fighters joining extremist groups,” it said.
  • (13) You can quote the many statistics that challenge this view, yet, reinforced by parts of the media and some politicians, it is unshakable.
  • (14) If it seems eccentric to compare Churchill, scion of the Dukes of Marlborough, with Davis, who was brought up in a council flat in south London, then factor in their shared attributes: unshakable self-confidence, a certain vanity, and a capacity to inspire affection and extreme irritation.
  • (15) Sadly, circumstances would keep us apart for six years, during which time we slowly built an unshakable friendship and the eventually basis for our partnership.
  • (16) Open your ears, and you will hear our voice and unshakable anger already on the doorstep of your cell.
  • (17) My confidence in the Egyptian state and its institutions is unequivocal and unshakeable."
  • (18) The duck house is lodged there, unshakeably fixed in the national psyche, despite the fact that newer and bigger scandals have come to take its place: the revelations of phone-hacking in the press and the connected accusations of police corruption, to name but two.
  • (19) The unshakable courage of the students and families in Ayotzinapa are testing the indifference of the Mexican government to the core.
  • (20) She ridicules his unshakeable belief that government is exactly analogous to business.