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Prima facie, his characterizations imply a justified belief analysis of knowledge — or in language closer to his own (and where justification is construed in terms of unshakability ), an unshakable conviction analysis.
It ensures that the method only approves candidate first principles that are unshakable in their own right: it rules out that the appearance of unshakability is owed to logical relations with other principles, themselves not subjected to doubt.
"The integrity of the game is of paramount importance to everyone in our league, and requires unshakable commitment to fairness and compliance with the playing rules.
In America, the great critic HL Mencken referred to Dreiser as "a man of large originality, of profound feeling, and of unshakable courage".
At the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Lexington lost track of how many times speakers heaped praise on Ronald Reagan as a man who made history by starting from an unshakable confidence in America's moral greatness.
It meant, above all, demonstrating that Article 5 remained the unshakable pillar of the alliance, at a time when doubts had been raised about whether, say, the Dutch or German governments would really send their troops to fight for Estonia or Romania.Some of those measures have already been put in place.
That the two main candidates for the presidency in the recent election Petro Poroshenko and Yulia Tymoshenko both made large fortunes through opaque dealmaking in the 1990s shows the unshakable dominance of the power structure formed in that era.Mr Yanukovych managed to create a centralised hierarchy of corruption.
At The Economist's Japan summit on April 17th, President Shinzo Abe discussed why his country must "completely cast off" its inward focus, how he intends to create an "unshakable foundation" for growth and why "womenomics" matters.
We should leave the last word to Fowler's authoritative guide to English usage: "The widespread public belief that 'But' should not be used at the beginning of a sentence seems to be unshakable.
But if that is so, how to convince Asian allies of an unshakable military commitment to the defence of islands, reefs and rocks of no obvious relevance to American security?
And they marched alongside "anti-capitalist Muslims", an umbrella group for devout young Turks disgusted by the government's pursuit of commercial gain at the expense of the environment, and, worse, of its Islamic credentials.To all of them, Mr Erdogan's grip seems as unshakable as it is stifling.
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The primary grammatical function of "unshakable" is as an adjective . It typically modifies nouns, describing a quality of being firm, stable, and not easily disturbed or doubted. As Ludwig AI confirms, it’s a correct and usable term.
Expression frequency: Very common
