What's the difference between unwavering and unyielding?

Unwavering


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, has said that the battle of Vimy , where Canadian troops carried a crucial ridge in the face of a strong German defence, showed Canadians' "unwavering commitment to defending peace and freedom".
  • (2) Ahmadinejad's unwavering support for Mashaei, who is accused of running a "deviant current", has cost him a great deal of influence over Iranian politics and has put him at adds with Khamenei.
  • (3) Kirov was meant to be a showcase of liberal co-operation with an unwavering Kremlin.
  • (4) There have been suggestions in recent weeks that the US support for the Syrian non-extremist opposition is waning, and the US has reluctantly concluded that unwavering Russian support for Assad means the only way to oust Isis is by making cause with Russia and Assad.
  • (5) Writebol said she believes that her unwavering faith, support from her family and friends, the specially trained staff at Emerson as well as the experimental serum all played a role in her recovery.
  • (6) While every other national party leader has struggled to win voters’ trust, the SNP leader enjoys unwavering devotion; where they fought fearful, negative campaigns, she has connected with voters via an upbeat, hopeful message.
  • (7) The anti-Mubarak crowd was considerably smaller than yesterday, although its passion and belief that Mubarak's hours were numbered were unwavering.
  • (8) Key to this has been an unwavering organisational commitment to the delivery of services that are safe, sound and supportive and a zero tolerance approach to poor practice.
  • (9) Their unwavering belief in him and his explanation is clear, and evidently a great solace to him.
  • (10) "We call for this tragedy to be a basis for a renewed and unwavering commitment to a free and unfettered internet, spared from censorship with equality of access and franchise for all" the message said.
  • (11) At the same time, though, their aesthetic is unwaveringly high-definition.
  • (12) He believed that "on a proper construction of the 1989 act the respondents had power to grant section 36 consent to persons such as Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm Ltd." In a brief statement issued in New York, the Trump Organisation said: "Today's decision has not altered our unwavering commitment to protect our investment in Scotland .
  • (13) Morris was under no illusion it would be easy, but he had unwavering hope and was wholly committed to ensuring his son would go on to live a clean and happy life after completing his 11-month sentence for shoplifting.
  • (14) Turnbull was unwavering on the policy when he spoke to reporters in Sydney on Friday.
  • (15) Lachlan, James and I are delighted that Roger will be leading key businesses for us and our shareholders for years to come, and he has our unwavering support,” Rupert Murdoch said in a statement.
  • (16) It must be our unwavering aim that football can be enjoyed by all regardless of sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability and gender.
  • (17) His unwavering dedication to protecting every American’s civil and constitutional rights under the law – including voting rights – could not be more important right now.” The president, himself a former law professor, also reacted strongly against the reasons that senators gave for rejecting the nominee.
  • (18) "Somalia will remain grateful to the unwavering support from the United States government," effused President Hassan Mohamud.
  • (19) Fellow South Africans, Nelson Mandela brought us together and it is together that we will bid him farewell" – South African president Jacob Zuma "Let us pay tribute to Nelson Mandela: The ultimate symbol of dignity and unwavering dedication to the revolutionary struggle, to freedom and justice, a prophet of unity, peace and reconciliation."
  • (20) And by "us", I mean all the people who are protected by his courageous words and unwavering determination to speak for the protection and promotion of people's rights, whatever the price he may pay.

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.