An unalterable death sentence. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
unalterable resolve. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
You will say, however, that facts remain unalterable; and that in some unlucky instance, in the changes and chances of human affairs, you may be proved to have been to blame. From Wordnik.com. [Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification] Reference
"unalterable" Seven Commandments into Napoleon's own laws. From Wordnik.com. [George Orwell and the Politics of Animal Farm] Reference
Being, that he may unite us in the bonds of a tender and unalterable charity. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
He also maintained an unalterable confidence in himself, no matter what happened. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But calm and unalterable love -- oh, believe it not that such ever spoilt a child!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
"Like produces like or the likeness of an ancestor" is the unalterable law of the lower animal. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
But when these protections try to deny unalterable economic realities, they become self-defeating. From Wordnik.com. [CAPITALISM VS. DEMOCRACY] Reference
Brigade became conspicuous for their courage, energy, hardihood, and unalterable devotion to duty. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference
Physically, mentally, and spiritually, they are victims of unalterable economic and social exigencies. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
His demeanour towards her, from childhood upwards, had been one of unalterable, uninterrupted fondness. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
Tungstate of baryta answers perfectly, covers as well as white lead, and is as unalterable as zinc white. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
It is the instinct, the sentiment, the prejudice, if you please, of race, almost universal and unalterable. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
"I assured them it was my fixed unalterable determination to proceed in spite of every difficulty and danger.". From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Their manners, customs, and fashions, unalterable like their rocks, have stood the test of many revolving ages. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
He had said all this in the gentlest of voices with unalterable coolness, and even with somewhat of an abstracted manner. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And this, his silence at the cemetery, which had flagellated her with the unalterable past, now made him repugnant to her. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
The issue of existing causes is as certain as this moment, as it will be after it shall have become unalterable in history. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"Cobbler" Horn's unalterable purpose was to retain no more than a comparatively small portion of his wealth for his own use. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
The general processes of discipline and culture must form a fixed and unalterable part of any adequate educational programme. From Wordnik.com. [From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington] Reference
It is also important for another reason, namely, that while heat and light are unalterable, moisture may be produced by irrigation. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
He found, in the column and the lintel, means perfectly adequate to realize his ideal of high unalterable beauty, and he was content. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Implied in this obligation of absolute conformity is the conception that the Right is unalterable, universally binding, and imperative. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Boys 'schools, be they in what country they may, are as much alike as boy nature is alike and unalterable the world over, from age to age. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
In this portion of this great prayer I discern the unalterable mode in which nations and individuals recover their moral health and strength. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
As far as the subject of relative anatomy could admit of novel treatment, rigidly confined to facts unalterable, I have endeavoured to give it. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
In families, Nature has graciously balanced this effect, and amply provided for it, in the deep-seated and unalterable affection of the parent. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference
And if it be supposed that the individual is born into the world with certain ready-made possessions, fixed and unalterable, the claim is untenable. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
Our capitalist system is not, as Robert J. Samuelson describes it, a matter of "unalterable economic realities" ( "Capitalism vs. Democracy," Oct. 3). From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
Werner Radtke Paderborn, GermanyIn order of precedence, prayer is the second most important of the five basic and unalterable pillars of Islamic faith. From Wordnik.com. [Making Sense Of Female Sexuality] Reference
It desired peace, was quick to co-operate, and ready to conciliate, but its purpose to preserve free territory for free labour remained fixed and unalterable. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Wherefore I counsel to prevent her wiles and circle the queen with flame, that, unalterable by any deity, she may be held fast to me by passionate love for Aeneas. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Then, gradually, out of this common earth will grow up the special flower, true to its own individual law, which is just as sacred and unalterable as the general law. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
Before passing in, he grasped the hand of the devoted Bodyguard, who understood that his hour had come, crossed himself, and answered with a look of unalterable devotion. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
When one first learns that it can never be turned backward upon itself to permit the correction of past sins and the rightings of wrongs transfixed and forever unalterable. From Wordnik.com. [General Max Shorter] Reference
His inflexible firmness, in maintaining every point of monastic discipline, was tempered by the most winning sweetness and charity, and an unalterable calmness and meekness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
I do not say that I envy you this belief (because to me it seems like the wish for a horrible form of benevolent and unalterable dictatorship), but I do have a sincere question. From Wordnik.com. ['God Is Not Great'] Reference
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