Sentence examples for irreconcilable to from inspiring English sources

He vowed, like Milton's Satan "to wage by force of guile eternal war, irreconcilable to our grand Foe".

A second letter warned the consignees not to take it for granted that the colonists would remain "irreconcilable to the idea of spilling human blood".

There is no phoney narrative of redemption – indeed, much of the narrative is devoted to exploring rifts in her family which remained irreconcilable to the end.

They write, "The determination of the State Department to reconcile the irreconcilable, to negotiate the unnegotiable, and to appease the unappeasable is an obstacle to victory".

As Trollope put it, there is no change or reform that "stinks so foully in the nostrils of an English Tory as to be absolutely irreconcilable to him.

President Kim Dae Jung is attempting to reconcile the irreconcilable: to force banks and conglomerates to streamline their operations while keeping a lid on unemployment.In Thailand, as in South Korea, the present government was installed partly because of the crisis, and so was able to distance itself from policies that led to the debacle.

The electoral system that binds Ken Clarke in the same grip as Liam Fox must force Labour's irreconcilables to stick together.

He then allowed himself to be redirected by the young Indiana senator Albert Beveridge, an ardent imperialist who wanted to discuss the deportation of Filipino "irreconcilables" to Guam.

It was intended to solve a Tory political problem, allowing the irreconcilables to make fools of themselves while the best and brightest led voters to the light.

American universities have long struggled to meet almost irreconcilable demands: to be practical as well as transcendent; to assist immediate national needs and to pursue knowledge for its own sake; to both add value and question values.

The justices' challenge in both of the day's cases was how to achieve seemingly irreconcilable goals: to ensure that similar defendants receive the same treatment for similar crimes — the original intent of the sentencing guidelines system — while restoring to judges a measure of discretion now that the guidelines are merely "advisory".