What's the difference between unbearable and unsupportable?

Unbearable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This unbearable situation leads to panic and auto-sensory deprivation.
  • (2) Thus tissue and cellular damage may not be ischemic in nature but rather mediated by other mechanisms such as unbearable mechanical stress.
  • (3) Otherwise it’s unbearable.” She glances over my shoulder again: “I’m going to have to change position.
  • (4) He also thanked nearly everyone who had been involved in the trial: his attorneys, his family, everyone who testified “with dignity” about their “unbearable” hardships.
  • (5) Often the prospect of going to court for victims is unbearable; they feel they have already been judged and they don’t want to go through the abuse again.
  • (6) For the patients with unbearable paroxystic pain, when medical treatment failed, the destruction of deafferented dorsal horns at the level of avulsion (Nashold procedure) could produce pain relief.
  • (7) When facing the abortion question the following are necessary: more complete information on the consequences of indiscriminate sexual relations; a wider spread knowledge of contraceptive practices; the institution of special aid to unmarried mothers so as to prevent abortion remaining the only possible solution for an unbearable situation and which hides a serious psychological risk.
  • (8) Anyone expecting the public to suddenly turn on Ailes in a way it hasn’t before is likely to be disappointed, Tyndall said, adding that part of Fox News’s classic-TV appeal is a re-creation of the permissive atmosphere that has historically made life unbearable for women in entertainment.
  • (9) Berg sat with Leija on Thursday evening, learning to sing Chris Medina's What Are Words, which includes lyrics that could be considered unbearably trite were they not now so fitting: "And I know an angel was sent just for me, And I know I'm meant to be where I am, And I'm gonna be, Standing right beside her tonight."
  • (10) And which, in the case of Scarlett and MacKeown, grasps at any semblance of 'otherness', because the truth (it could easily happen to your child) is too unbearable to contemplate.
  • (11) The results are interpreted to suggest that persons who commit homicide-suicide are acting out a three-party rescue fantasy in an attempt to resolve unbearable stress.
  • (12) Almost 800 have taken the first step to taking their lives by becoming members of Dignitas, and 34 men and women, who feel their suffering has become unbearable, are ready to travel to Zurich and take a lethal drug overdose.
  • (13) Their songs ranged from the almost unbearably poignant ("Hand in Glove") to the frankly vulnerable ("How Soon is Now").
  • (14) Without medication the pain is unbearable: during some of my worst attacks, I've been known to bang my head on the wall.
  • (15) I have tickets for the knock-out rounds and it would be unbearable if Portugal were already on a plane home.
  • (16) Pessimists predict a human tide that will put an unbearable burden on food, jobs, schools, housing and healthcare.
  • (17) Watched by a quiet, oddly tense crowd of onlookers, the couple looked almost unbearably young and vulnerable – as if, one observer joked, on their way to the guillotine.
  • (18) He wanted to openly condemn this unbearable situation.
  • (19) The second half roared on towards its conclusion, the tension close to unbearable, when he announced that he would have to nip out once more as his earlier exit had clearly been the reason for Jô’s goal.
  • (20) After the election, when interest rates are rising and public services are falling apart, Labour would find governing impossible and unbearable if they had signed up to Osborne's killer cuts.

Unsupportable


Definition:

  • (a.) Insupportable; unendurable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She reported violence and aggression from patients and their relatives and said she felt unsupported by management after “horrific incidents”.
  • (2) By embedding the biopsy in the acrylic resin LR White, unsupported sections of which are stable in the electron beam, light and electron microscopy and immunocytochemistry become feasible on sections from the same block.
  • (3) To test the hypothesis that during unsupported arm exercise (UAE) some of the inspiratory muscles of the rib cage partake in upper torso and arm positioning and thereby decrease their contribution to ventilation, we studied 11 subjects to measure pleural (Ppl) and gastric (Pga) pressures, heart rate, respiratory frequency, O2 uptake (VO2), and tidal volume (VT) during symptom-limited UAE.
  • (4) Previous decompression tables for humans were based upon unsupported assumptions because the underlying processes by which dissolved gas is liberated from blood and tissue were poorly understood.
  • (5) We have shown that patients with chronic airflow obstruction (CAO) complain of disabling dyspnea when performing seemingly trivial tasks with unsupported arms.
  • (6) The older group could sit or stand unsupported, while the younger group could sit but could not yet stand.
  • (7) All the children could sit unsupported and therefore were at point 9 on the Vignos functional scale.
  • (8) Second, on unemployment, on disability living allowance and, this weekend, on the effect of benefit caps, IDS and his ministers keep making claims that are unsupported by their own data.
  • (9) At best, resolving the question of when or if to assist a patient in suicide would require a number of clinical judgments which are currently unsupported by any research.
  • (10) The other was chaotic, emotionally unsupportive, with high levels of conflict.
  • (11) Unsupported arm exercise (UAE) further compromises respiratory muscle capacity for ventilation because it requires the muscles' concomitant recruitment in the maintenance of chest wall stabilization.
  • (12) The elastance from 25 ml of dead space gas did not introduce significant errors into the measurements in any group of infants, but the presence of an unsupported upper airway caused errors of up to 245%.
  • (13) The axillary lymphatic nodes should be biopsied, since clinical assessment alone, unsupported by other examinations, yields false results in about one-third of the cases.
  • (14) Though statistically unsupported due to the small numbers involved in this cohort, it appeared that the rougher nature of boys activities and their more active participation in sports were of greater importance than the magnitude of their overjet in determining whether their teeth were at risk from trauma.
  • (15) It was concluded that the presence of propranolol had prevented more or caused fewer infarctions, perhaps a combination of both, than had the older hypotensive agents unsupported by beta-receptor blockade.
  • (16) The paradigm of pathology research as an endeavor among grant-funded principal investigators resulting in first-author publications is unsupported by quantitative examination of author profiles extracted from the scientific literature.
  • (17) In our experience up to now, aid workers who have experienced sexual assault have felt unsupported and disappointed by their organisations.
  • (18) One year later the condition was only marginally improved: he took only few steps unsupported.
  • (19) Wishart has had a lifelong interest in polar exploration and in 1992 was part of the first team to walk unsupported to the geomagnetic north pole.
  • (20) Applications to negatively stained 50S ribosomes and to cryo-electron micrographs of thin vitrified layers of unstained and unsupported tomato bushy stunt and Semliki Forest viruses are described, and the resulting reconstructions are presented.

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