These variations from custom are illogical, incomprehensible, and unmodifiable. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It's also worth remembering that this "unmodifiable" pro-capitalist human nature, far from being inherent in the human character, defies the historical record. From Wordnik.com. [Does capitalism equal human nature?] Reference
But it implied the essential acceptance of an unmodifiable order. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
But these cries and vocal utterances are limited, and comparatively unmodifiable. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Maturity, in so far as it is mere growth independent of training, is also largely a fixed and unmodifiable condition. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
While James was trying unsuccessfully to feel at home in Paris in 1872 they became friends, even though Lowell, for all his learning and versatility, was an unmodifiable Cambridge owl. From Wordnik.com. ['The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872-1876, Volume 1'] Reference
Thus industry and conscientiousness and public spirit, which are clearly affected by environment, show no greater resemblance than such practically unmodifiable traits as memory, original sensitiveness to colors, sounds, and distances. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
By your logic, the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 was UnArticles-of-Confederational and George Washington should have arrested and exiled Franklin, Madison and the lot of them for treason in seeking to modify a document that declares itself unmodifiable. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Release the Koh Memorandum on Honduras] Reference
For the undefined, ever-changing, protean essence, or soul, of a thing which the alchemists thought of as hidden by wrappings of properties, the exact investigations of Lavoisier, and those of others who worked on the same lines as he, substituted this definite, fixed, unmodifiable property of mass. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Google's cloud computing OS, will lock users into an unmodifiable world. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
While it is impossible to provide a device that is completely unmodifiable. From Wordnik.com. [Groklaw] Reference
Oh, but car manufacturers do treat their hardware as an unmodifiable black box. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
The problem is, at least for me, the option remained grayed out and unmodifiable. From Wordnik.com. [PCWorld] Reference
Java provides unmodifiable wrappers eg, unmodifiableCollection, unmodifiableSet etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Code Project Latest Articles] Reference
This does not mean "without unmodifiable sections", it means "without additional unmodifable sections". From Wordnik.com. [Planet Debian] Reference
As to your other comment about making this data unmodifiable -- it's not really possible to make it immutable. From Wordnik.com. [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference
It is almost as embarrassing as developing this non-expandable, unmodifiable monster hoping to cash in on a label. From Wordnik.com. [ARN News]
Now, they are told that one significant predictor of serious outcomes is their height, something that is completely unmodifiable. From Wordnik.com. [Brain Blogger] Reference
It's one of your English customs to go on from precedent to precedent until you get an unmodifiable standard, when you slavishly conform to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Portage] Reference
Collection. remove does when the collection does not support the remove operation (eg, unmodifiable collection) but a class claiming to implement. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News Articles] Reference
Since object code consists of unintelligible strings of 1s and 0s, software is effectively unmodifiable unless one has access to its source code. From Wordnik.com. [LXer Linux News] Reference
Mac pages will remain accessible at their current URLs (as long as their owners maintain active MobileMe memberships) they will become static - unmodifiable. From Wordnik.com. [TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us] Reference
This method of booting off a read-only CD provides a completely isolated and unmodifiable system that can't be compromised by spyware or access from the Web. From Wordnik.com. [LXer Linux News] Reference
In respect to certain fundamental provisions, which necessarily receive the most rigid interpretation on the part of the courts, it is practically unmodifiable. From Wordnik.com. [The Promise of American Life] Reference
You can help those customers very directly while also advancing Oracle's cause in a variety of ways by being willing to modify your stance on that single-tier, unmodifiable policy. From Wordnik.com. [CNET News.com] Reference
The moral of all this is, that in seeking a new home, we should consider carefully the unmodifiable factors of climate, geology and locality as shown at least in part by the nature of the indigenous flora. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina and its Resources.] Reference
Her brother was the human being of whom she had been most afraid from her childhood upward; afraid with that fear which springs in us when we love one who is inexorable, unbending, unmodifiable, with a mind that we can never mould ourselves upon, and yet that we cannot endure to alienate from us. From Wordnik.com. [The Mill on the Floss] Reference
Under these average boyish physiognomies that she seems to turn off by the gross, she conceals some of her most rigid, inflexible purposes, some of her most unmodifiable characters; and the dark-eyed, demonstrative, rebellious girl may after all turn out to be a passive being compared with this pink-and-white bit of masculinity with the indeterminate features. From Wordnik.com. [The Mill on the Floss] Reference
These strange "visions," for such they must be called, are extremely vivid in some cases, but are almost incredible to the vast majority of mankind, who would set them down as fantastic nonsense; nevertheless, they are familiar parts of the mental furniture of the rest, in whose imaginations they have been unconsciously formed, and where they remain unmodified and unmodifiable by teaching. From Wordnik.com. [Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development] Reference
Former law student finds the very hard and unmodifiable fact of unfairness in the human condition as a problem the government must and can solve by confiscating from Bill and giving to Toby. From Wordnik.com. [Fact checking the VP debate.] Reference
01/24/2010: Burak: Inserted the PCI card for Hamamatsu EMCCD C9100-02 on the computer - thanks to the flexibility of PC, would not have been possible with a Mac which is a fancy but unmodifiable pet computer. From Wordnik.com. [OpenWetWare - Recent changes [en]] Reference
I have stated, ancient Philosophy proclaimed that the only knowledge in the end worth having was knowledge of Fact -- of what lay behind all seeming however fair -- Fact unmodified and unmodifiable by human wish or will; it bade us know the world in which we live and move and have our being, know it as it is truly and in itself, and knowing it love it, loyally acquiescing in its purposes and subserving its ends. From Wordnik.com. [Progress and History] Reference
(3) Choice 2: "GFDL-licensed works without unmodifiable sections are free". From Wordnik.com. [Planet Debian] Reference
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