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Meanings of inexorable in anglès

Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty.

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Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill.

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Examples for "adamant"
Examples for "adamant"
1
Some Muslims are adamant however that they need to defend their religion.
Reuters
2
Some developers, however, are adamant they don't need to help international brands.
Reuters
3
But he was adamant that retaliatory violence would only spark more violence.
True compass: a memoir
4
Very quietly, he said, 'She was adamant that she come home first.
Into the Water
5
However, she was adamant the issue of meth shouldn't define the country.
Radio NZ
1
He had loved her so-theone soft side of his adamantine character.
The Reason Why
2
And our first discovery will be that such communication has adamantine limitations.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 / A Magaz...
3
His iron breast has met with others as adamantine as his own.
The Scottish Chiefs
4
Personally, he discovered, he preferred such beauty to the latter adamantine qualities.
The Happy End
5
But Sir John had met all her wiles with his adamantine smile.
With Edged Tools
1
In supporting Assad, Russia acts in deliberate, intransigent opposition to the US.
The Guardian
2
Don't try to portray me as some kind of intransigent villain here.
The Naked God
3
The Angel of Death, a protagonist in several stories, is unfailingly intransigent.
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights. Vol. 1
4
Martens regarded Poole as he might have a dumb and intransigent child.
The vaults
5
The Parole Board said Roest had a rather intransigent attitude to his offending.
Radio NZ

That cannot be avoided.

Usage of inexorable in anglès
1
The Englishman, in particular, wished to remain; but our host was inexorable.
The Lieutenant and Commander / Being Autobigraphical Sketches of...
2
You are refined in your wickedness; you are inexorable in your hate.
Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends
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And it is also part of the inexorable process of language change.
Wired
4
We cannot escape the evils of life; they are inevitable and inexorable.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 08: Talmage to Knox Little
5
Truth's slow but it's inexorable and it does have a great power.
Radio NZ
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Her progress was slow but inexorable, her every appearance a great occasion.
The new yorker
7
The law of the survival of the fittest is impartial and inexorable.
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 /...
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The inexorable one at the desk did not keep him in suspense.
The Quickening
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It was inexorable and unseen; and being unseen, close akin to terror.
The Blind Spot
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On one reading, it has been a period of inexorable national decline.
The Irish Times
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He was in a dream-a vision-giddyin presence of an inexorable reality.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
12
He subjected every measure to the inexorable test of the moral law.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
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The inexorable facts closed in on him like prison-warders handcuffing a convict.
Ethan Frome
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Play continued to flow in an inexorable torrent towards the home goal.
BBC
15
The inexorable gate of the convent school remained shut to all comers.
The Velvet Glove
16
They were inexorable, even as the laws of the Medes and Persians.
Mufti
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Inexorable across language varieties
United Kingdom
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Ireland
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United States of America
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