His songs are immovably lodged in the average listener's brain: "Cracklin' Rosie," "Kentucky Woman," "I'm a Believer".
Mr. Lanza said he wished he could announce he was immovably opposed to same-sex marriage to avoid enduring the pressure from both sides.
From then on, King was immovably established as, in someone's neat phrase, "the chairman of the board of blues singers".
First, in a trial enlivened by his contempt for his lawyer, Hill was immovably committed to the right to remain silent, in keeping with the Wobblies' reliance on the American constitution in labour disputes.
Instead reformers face the prospect of a Tory government led by a man who says change in the Lords is a "third term issue" and who is immovably committed to first-past-the-post for the Commons.
Who can write the history of a battle whose eyes are immovably fastened upon a central figure of transcendingly absorbing interest -- the dead body of an oldest born, crushed by a shell in a position where a battery should never have been sent, and abandoned to death in a building where surgeons dared not to stay?... My pen is heavy.
But many veteran leaders in the "pro-life" movement are immovably stuck in their positions.
Harewood and Pountney had been immovably opposed to surtitles; both believed that opera in English was pointless if it could not be understood; Harewood thought, moreover, that surtitles could undermine the case for a publicly funded opera-in-English company.
He is a man so comprehensively adherent to conservative ideals you wonder if it's all an act, a blueprint, if someone could possibly be so immovably dug into Reagan philosophies and this Ward-Cleaver-with-a-double-barrel ethos of his.
And, far from defining a world in which characters were fixed immovably, Billy Liar shows a world on the cusp of change.
