What's the difference between unforgiving and unrelenting?

Unforgiving


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
  • (2) To somehow use the upcoming 2012 Olympics as a reason to do this is, in my opinion, unforgivably cynical.
  • (3) Obviously she’s probably felt for years that she was black on the inside and denied it all through her childhood ... since she’s transitioned and identifies herself as black, than we should just let her be and live her life in peace.” Mary Elizabeth Williams, a Salon writer, echoed those who said Dolezal’s alleged fraud was unforgivable.
  • (4) Hollande described Cahuzac's actions as an "unforgivable moral error".
  • (5) We had hounded Swales out, in an unforgiving public humiliation, for a childhood hero we believed would make us happy again.
  • (6) When money is tight, it’s simply unforgiveable to waste taxpayers’ money.
  • (7) In an escalating legal battle between mostly Republican-controlled states and the Obama administration over voter ID and other election laws, a panel of three judges in Washington DC found that the Texas legislation imposed "strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor" because of the cost and process involved in obtaining identification.
  • (8) By day, they roamed for miles under the unforgiving sun so they would not be around if the men with machine guns swooped in again.
  • (9) But as the trip to Scranton neared my emotions became uncontrollable, and the nights were unforgivably restless.
  • (10) By plotting the percent failing in the 1st year as a function of per cycle failure rates for perfect and imperfect use, it was concluded that the OM is fairly effective if used perfectly, extremely unforgiving of imperfect use, and moderately difficult to use perfectly.
  • (11) He had committed two unforgiveable crimes: seeking a rigorous inspection of US facilities; and pressing Saddam Hussein to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention, to help prevent the war George Bush was itching to wage.
  • (12) The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in Rotherham, which involved the abuse of predominantly white girls by predominantly Pakistani men, even suggested that the unforgivable failure of the Labour council to take action was associated with a reluctance to broach ethnically sensitive issues.
  • (13) These are unforgiving times for people who want to expose what governments want kept secret.
  • (14) Moral leader The Daily Mail on the FA's refusal to comment on JT: "Even in the sleazy, venal world of football, Terry's record was unforgivable.
  • (15) In the Radio Times, the show's producer and director, Steven Moffat, lambasts the corporation's "outright stupidity and unforgivable blindness" in axing the show 24 years ago.
  • (16) Yet Van Gaal will know they have to be more streetwise to prosper in a competition that can be unforgiving.
  • (17) The 25-year-old footballer, who was released from prison on Friday having served half of a five-year sentence for raping a woman in a hotel room, told the Sunday Mirror in an interview conducted shortly before he was freed that cheating on his girlfriend was “unforgivable”.
  • (18) Miliband relented, and Balls took the exam, including clapping rhythmically, in the formal, unforgiving atmosphere music examiners love to generate.
  • (19) They involved not one error, but a whole chain of errors, and they are all essentially unforgiveable,” he said.
  • (20) But the pressure from ValueAct and other shareholders could be unforgiving.

Unrelenting


Definition:

  • (a.) Not relenting; unyielding; rigid; hard; stern; cruel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seventeen patients (9 sibling and 8 unrelated donors) received conditioning with hyperfractionated total body irradiation (TBI), thiotepa, and cyclophosphamide (Cy).
  • (2) Psychophysiological responses were generally unrelated to age and education.
  • (3) Besides the 15 cases reported in 1984, 6 additional cases of anti-vWF alloantibodies were reported, i.e., one from Spain (a relative of a previously reported case), two from Venezuela (brother and sister) and three from North Carolina (unrelated patients).
  • (4) Two patients subsequently died as a result of pneumonia and cerebral infarction, respectively; both conditions were unrelated to the hemorrhage.
  • (5) The total glutathione peroxidase activity was unrelated to studied variables of bull semen.
  • (6) Differences between natural and elicited attack appeared to be related to the range of completenes of elicited attack, the greater intensity of elicited attack, and the presence of unrelated responses induced by hypothalamic stimulation.
  • (7) Posttransplant lymphocytes derived from CML-NR patients were stimulated in vitro with lymphocytes from unrelated healthy blood donors, who were selected for the presence or absence of kidney donor-specific HLA antigens.
  • (8) This deposition is unrelated to the deposition of other immunoreactants (IgG, IgM or C3).
  • (9) In contrast, the number of distressful childhood experiences reported was generally unrelated to empathy scores.
  • (10) Three patients recovered from their operations, and the other two, both with endocarditis, died postoperatively from causes unrelated to splenic abscess and splenectomy.
  • (11) Antibodies were almost never present in the absence of conjunctival follicles, but their titres were unrelated to the degree of follicular hyperplasia; there was no obvious relationship between the serological findings and corneal lesions.
  • (12) Polymorphism of PGM1 and PGM3 types was investigated in placental extracts from 127 unrelated Japanese parturients living in Yamanashi Prefecture.
  • (13) Seemingly unrelated conditions, such as atherosclerosis, bacterial endocarditis, and trauma, can all produce similar radiographic appearance of aneurysmal dilatation within the kidney, albeit through differing mechanisms.
  • (14) PES scores were inversely related to reporting symptoms and unrelated to measures of response style.
  • (15) In men, the presence of antisperm antibodies in sera was unrelated to fertility.
  • (16) When epinephrine is infused at different rates into exercising rats, liver cAMP appears to be unrelated to plasma epinephrine.
  • (17) In this longitudinal study, involving twice monthly samples from each participant and carried out in two phases lasting at least six and three months respectively, we have confirmed that fluctuations in T8+ cells occur in patients with MS and also found a significant reduction in this lymphocyte subpopulation in patients' spouses but not their siblings, compared with unrelated controls.
  • (18) Gradients were unrelated to symptoms or to the duration of the valve in situ (3 weeks to 20 years).
  • (19) The superiority of the high responder vs. the low responder line was generally observed, confirming that the genes accumulated through selective breeding can modify the responsiveness to unrelated antigens including TI antigens.
  • (20) The effect of two structurally unrelated aldose reductase inhibitors, sorbinil and ponalrestat, on glomerular prostaglandin production and urinary albumin excretion was investigated in rats with diabetes induced by streptozotocin.

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