How To Use Immovable In A Sentence

It was a case of an irresistible force hitting an immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
This pack was, seemingly, an immovable force. Times, Sunday Times
But Helen lay in her bed under the roof as silent and immovable as the body of her child.
She knelt, immovable as the statued Christ which hung almost over our heads. The Love Story of Abner Stone
When the presumption is not displaced, there is no need for the trial judge to address the issue of whether the vehicle is operable or immovable and/or the issue of dangerousness.

As the saying goes, unstoppable force against immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
After this date the company faces debt execution actions with regard to its products, assets, accounts, bank guarantees, movables and immovables.
IT'S the irresistible force against the immovable object. The Sun
{193} "Corresponding to our progressive perception of nature and our immovable conviction of the truth of the evolution theory, our religion can be only a _religion of nature_. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
The second row was an immovable force - an England captain in the making. The Sun
If George wishes to deny the right of inheritance, ‘he must do so with regard to movable as well as in the case of immovable goods, or at least he must demonstrate why immovables, and not movables, should be inheritable.’
Trees soon grow into immovable objects and, so close to an unrestricted road, may be a great hazard. Times, Sunday Times
Jong-un, the youngest son and successor to the ruling dynasty started by his grandfather, was described as the "eternally immovable mental mainstay of the Korean people" by KCNA. Reuters: Top News
And it turneth no more to this or to that, but it willeth always One, and that is God; to Him it cleaveth alway, without any going back; and therefore is it called immovable, for it suffereth not itself to be moved from God. The Following of Christ.
The articulations are divided into three classes: synarthroses or immovable, amphiarthroses or slightly movable, and diarthroses or freely movable, joints. III. Syndesmology. 3. Classification of Joints
What was more, it could not buck a far more immovable force - geography. Times, Sunday Times
The quartermaster of the battalion in the fort immediately sprang forward, and seizing the fallen flag tore it from its hold and leapt on to the traverse, where he stood under the heavy fire immovable, until a jurymast was rigged and raised in the place of the shattered staff. The War in America
WORDS OF SIMILAR SOUND: canvas (cloth) principle (rule) canvass (all meanings except _cloth_) principal (chief) capitol (a building) stationary (immovable) capital (all meanings except _building_) stationery (articles) counsel (advice or an adviser) miner (a workman) council (a body of persons) minor (under age) complement (a completing element) angel (a spiritual being) compliment (praise) angle (geometrical) 205. Practical Grammar and Composition
It's also a materialistic time, and anyone with a stubborn personality will become practically immovable under this influence.
This base is the immovable heart of international relations.
As the saying goes, unstoppable force against immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
It was a case of an irresistible force hitting an immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
The days of the two great immovable blocs of seats held by the major parties alongside a minority of perpetual marginals is long gone.
After wanderings and criticisms and grumblings and little disloyalties of the tongue all Englishmen come back to an England immovable and eternal. St. George and Merrie England
This pack was, seemingly, an immovable force. Times, Sunday Times
In their thinking, there are no absolute moral laws and there is no such thing as an unshakable, immovable standard of behavior which applies to all people throughout all time.
But he also understood that the US had immovable faith in their strength, will power, and tenacity once mobilised.
This fight is a very difficult one not because the ‘police barricade’ is immovable, but because the thousands in their entirety need to be so convinced of their cause that they do not lapse into physical aggression.
Kim Jong-un, his youngest son and anointed successor, was described as the "eternally immovable mental mainstay of the Korean people" by North Korean state news agency KCNA. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
He has immovable opinions about all the great affairs of state, but nine-tenths of them are sheer imbecilities.
But for those with the FOX News logo permanently burned into the lower right hand side of their TV screen -- aka the immovable 35 percent -- none of this information meant a thing. Adam McKay: And Then There Were Thirty...
In that combative battlefield there seems to be no middle ground, just the immovable solidarity of two irreconcilable forces.
Any train travelling at a decent speed is going to derail when it hits something solid and immovable like a car.
The recent Constitutional Court ruling against the execution of immovable property of judgment debtors was an overwhelming victory for the weak and the legally challenged.
Alexander is a winning Berowne, trying to sweet-talk the immovable Rosaline, played with saucy spirit by the small, dark Lombardo.
He was always trying new techniques, and he’d discovered something called isometrics, which meant, he said, working out against immovable objects. Summer of Deliverance
As in, an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
Lock your bike to something immovable like a railing or lamp-post.
And yet they confront a seemingly immovable wall. Christianity Today
So today's clash between the promotion rivals pits the irresistible force against the immovable object. The Sun
Be persistent There will be times when the road feels very long and your path full of immovable obstacles. 50 Ways to Become a Self-Confident Woman
But The Masters, steeped in convention that seemed immovable as bedrock, is changing. USATODAY.com - Traditions die hard at Augusta National
Instead of being _foreclosed_ and immovable, it is, in fact, the only species of landed property that is essentially moving and circulative. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
So today's clash between the promotion rivals pits the irresistible force against the immovable object. The Sun
So this is what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
WHEN the irresistible force meets the immovable object, something has to give. The Sun
It is a name to evoke the eternal battle between a furious sea and an immovable land, watched by an imperious sky. Times, Sunday Times
All eyes turn to this shabby remnant, but they remain immovable, with the leaden expression belonging to the victims of the Confederate lexicon, that seems to say, unaccused, '_I am not ashamed. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Historically, immovable objects are easy to out maneuver and real long-term stubbornness is the Maginot Line of negotiating styles.
She tried to persuade him not to undertake the work because of its subject matter, but of course he was immovable.
The immovable object dealt with the usually unstoppable force. Times, Sunday Times
In order, therefore, to decide whether the plaintiff can succeed in following the property into the hands of the defendants I should have to consider the law relating to immovable property in India.
And yet they confront a seemingly immovable wall. Christianity Today
Other familiar exemptions included under Article 13B (other exemptions) include insurance, the letting of immovable property, and the supply of land and buildings.
It was a case of an irresistible force hitting an immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
The Democratic presidential race is now between a seemingly unstoppable force and an apparently immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
Here also, equally immovable, the calamander is growing, neglected and unknown. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
The Democratic presidential race is now between a seemingly unstoppable force and an apparently immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
It's better when you haven't got players on massively long and immovable contracts and that's the way it is going.
She had a face of such immovable stupidity that it amounted to a sort of strange beauty.
Foster is a sophomore who converted from defensive end while Spence, a redshirt freshman, is a 6-foot-1, 305-pound fireplug that's almost immovable. Illinois - Team Notes
It was a case of an irresistible force hitting an immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
It snows throughout the winter in Jozankei, and it gets so deep, the people tunnel under the immovable drifts.
Trees soon grow into immovable objects and, so close to an unrestricted road, may be a great hazard. Times, Sunday Times
Donegal, eager to re-define their season after an unforeseen defeat to Fermanagh in the Ulster Championship, weren't supposed to be an immovable object.
This afternoon's Easter Road clash is not the only Edinburgh derby this weekend where immovable object meets irresistible force.
He can be immovable, irascible, and exasperating when he wants to, which is most of the time. MURDER IN E MINOR
February 28 is the deadline for it to pay up for temporary importation after which date the company faces debt execution actions with regard to its products, assets, accounts, bank guarantees, movables and immovables.
Her once beautiful, animated and expressive face has been Botoxed for so many years now that it's become an immovable mask.
It seems as though the irresistible force has finally met an immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
What was more, it could not buck a far more immovable force - geography. Times, Sunday Times
Sale and leaseback allows companies to free up capital tied up in their movable and immovable assets.
But circumstances are far from normal, which brings us back to the immovable object confronting these irresistible forces of stimulus. Times, Sunday Times
Just the moment before the head of the locomotive rammed that seemingly immovable barrier at the end of the siding there flashed into the air from Tom's annunciator the code word agreed upon announcing a wreck, and the number of the sector on which the electric locomotive was then running. Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails
IT'S the irresistible force against the immovable object. The Sun
Property includes the rights in and to any movable property, immovable property, corporeal and incorporeal property.
So this is what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
[33] The fulcrum, which is generally treated as being absolutely immovable, being the general belief in the theory of democracy. Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought
But Rosa's rebellion, her refusal to move back, her decision to be steadfast and immovable in the faith set a community on fire.
Nothing but the point of her poop remained, and there stood the stern and steadfast Don, cap-a-pie in his glistening black armor, immovable as a man of iron, while over him the flag, which claimed the empire of both worlds, flaunted its gold aloft and upwards in the glare of the tropic noon. Westward Ho!
Certainly, corporations can and do change the marketscape, but only within the fairly immovable constraints placed upon them by consumer desires.
It seems as though the irresistible force has finally met an immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
This pack was, seemingly, an immovable force. Times, Sunday Times
The natural flowing waters shall be reasonably distributed among the neighboring obligees of immovables.
Taxpayer: it is easy to understand the immovable property, but what do you mean by the intangible asset?
It was a case of an irresistible force hitting an immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
So it is disturbing that he is so intransigent in accepting the reality of rationing: are there other arguments over which he is similarly immovable?
It is as solemn and obdurate as the field of stelae - immovable and unforgettable. The Times Literary Supplement
The panther and cat yowled their fury but the ends of the vines sunk roots for themselves and were immovable.
I must have sat in immovable traffic for an hour thinking to myself that there is no way this city is going to successfully pull off an Olympic Games, until I finally gave up and headed home. 2008 July 02 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
The Democratic presidential race is now between a seemingly unstoppable force and an apparently immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
And I was no immovable object to meet his irresistible force. What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
It was a case of an irresistible force hitting an immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
Hold the camera in two hands, brace yourself or lean on an immovable object, select a fast enough shutter speed and check your negatives!
Strictly speaking, however, a fief was usually defined as immovable property whose usufruct perpetually conceded to another under the obligation of fealty and personal homage. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
They pass into a fixed and immovable state, and mostly into one as enduring as adamant; while colloidal or albuminoid matter (laboratory protoplasm) takes on no fixed forms -- only those that are ephemeral, merely transitory. Life: Its True Genesis
There was the religious question of course, but he didn't expect her Protestantism was immovable. IN LOVE AND WAR
But my schedule was immovable and I was booked in that night.
It is well settled that the Article covers all property rights, movable and immovable alike.
Not so long ago this match would have been billed as the irresistible force versus the immovable object. The Sun
Property includes the rights in and to any movable property, immovable property, corporeal and incorporeal property.
the immovable hills
The immovable and irresistible are poised in perfect balance. Times, Sunday Times
On one issue, however, she was immovable.
As the saying goes, unstoppable force against immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
The dome of the skull, for example, is made of bony plates, which must be immovable to protect the brain.
This personal time in which we experience the mind as fluid, unstuck and without boundaries begins to affect our view of the world as a fixed and immovable place.
The articulations are divided into three classes: synarthroses or immovable, amphiarthroses or slightly movable, and diarthroses or freely movable, joints. III. Syndesmology. 3. Classification of Joints
And yet they confront a seemingly immovable wall. Christianity Today
But if the earth also moves, the true and absolute motion of the body will arise, partly from the true motion of the earth, in immovable space; partly from the relative motion of the ship on the earth; and if the body moves also relatively in the ship; its true motion will arise, partly from the true motion of the earth, in immovable space, and partly from the relative motions as well of the ship on the earth, as of the body in the ship; and from these relative motions will arise the relative motion of the body on the earth. The pre-history of Einstein’s relativity « Skulls in the Stars
As our collective anger collides head-on with our political system's intransigence, we're stuck with a classic case of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object.
The British public were never going to be enthralled by a worthy exhibition of social issues, hurriedly assembled to meet an immovable deadline.
Some things are immovable - family, writing, Jasperwood.
As in, an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
And I was no immovable object to meet his irresistible force. What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
Her owner, on his maiden voyage, was all duck trousers; the captain, distinguished for the enormous yachtsman's cap he wore, was a Murrumbidgee [Footnote: The Murrumbidgee is a small river winding among the mountains of Australia, and would be the last place in which to look for a whale.] whaler before he took command of the _Akbar_; and the navigating officer, poor fellow, was almost as deaf as a post, and nearly as stiff and immovable as a post in the ground. Sailing Alone Around the World
Enterprises in Bulgaria can receive loans under effective credit lines or by pledging movables or mortgaging immovable property as security.
But medicine's immovable vested interests are now meeting the modern world's most irresistible forces - consumerism and globalisation.
The study shows that investment in immovable property, the purchase of a flat or a house and saving deposits are the three ways Bulgarians most prefer to save money.
The Democratic presidential race is now between a seemingly unstoppable force and an apparently immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
Ptolemy's findings were that the earth was a fixed, inert, immovable mass, located at the centre of the universe, and all celestial bodies, including the sun and the fixed stars, revolved around it.
The trackside is also a lot cleaner as well, less litter and junk, spare sleepers and track padlocked and secured to immovable objects, no empty cans of flammable grease left lying around.
My interests are now quicksilver streams that dart between, and are frequently dammed by, the immovable rocks of naps, meals, bedtimes and bubble-blowing sessions.
In frightening contrast fitzAlan looked tough and completely immovable, and bigger than ever in the confined space of the alehouse.
As the saying goes, unstoppable force against immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
Downtown, an immovable fog blankets the financial district. The Times Literary Supplement
Londoners were immovable in their determination to get to work on time.
Within this concept is the notion that an occupant may only use the immovables that have already been developed, and only to the extent that they were used previously.
As in, an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
This proportion of the decrement of the forces is confirmed from the eccentricity of the planets, and the very slow motion of their apsides; for in no other proportion, it has been established, could the circum-solar planets once in every revolution descend to their least, and once ascend to their greatest distance from the sun, and the places of those distances remain immovable. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
The recent Constitutional Court ruling against the execution of immovable property of judgment debtors was an overwhelming victory for the weak and the legally challenged.
Obdurate and immovable, they stood, no less than the stock from which they had come.
When cooled, water becomes immovable and its fluidity is blocked.
On one issue, however, she was immovable.
Lock your bike to something immovable like a railing or lamp-post.
When battle commences at the Millennium Stadium, there will be no sentiment on show as Euro 2004's irresistible force meets the Premiership's immovable object.
For which causes and crimes he has forfeited his life, lands, and goods, movable and immovable; which shall be escheated to the King. Letters to Dead Authors
In the guise of providing shelter to siteless or houseless persons, the owners of immovable properties are made landless and also jobless.
what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?
Lock your bike to something immovable like a railing or lamp-post.
And I was no immovable object to meet his irresistible force. What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
There are certain immovable problems within me.
So today's clash between the promotion rivals pits the irresistible force against the immovable object. The Sun
The dark, immovable clouds were piled upon one another in giant masses -- so distinct and sharply cut, so rounded, that one almost saw the impressure of the fingers of some Titanic sculptor; and they hung low down, overwhelming, so that James could scarcely breathe. The Hero
The timbers of the Golden Island opened with the crash, and she filled, and never lifted or thumped, but lay swept by each billow, like a rock at half-tide, immovable by reason of her heavy cargo. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
They were immovable, intimidating, overwhelming.
For the time being, your house is protected from such a claim because it is considered immovable property. Times, Sunday Times
{193} "Corresponding to our progressive perception of nature and our immovable conviction of the truth of the evolution theory, our religion can be only a _religion of nature_. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
The problem was that both sets of posts have been firmly anchored in concrete for years and were immovable.
But circumstances are far from normal, which brings us back to the immovable object confronting these irresistible forces of stimulus. Times, Sunday Times
The categories of fiction and non-fiction are among the most immovable divides in bookshops and libraries.
He stood like an immovable obstacle against which no pressure could avail; an embodiment of what Arthur most shrank from believing in — the irrevocableness of his own wrongdoing. Adam Bede
Let me die here! let me die here! were her words; remaining jointless and immovable, till Sally and Mrs. Sinclair hurried in. Clarissa Harlowe
Perhaps emboldened by the animal's immovable stance the cameraman decided to move a little closer.
The right to use agricultural land is an independent usufruct of immovable property.
Cooperative management system", "movable property auction and immovable property rental" and "overall property transference" were the typical reforms of the township hospitals in Zhejiang Province.
I have lost count of the number of young trees I have seen in parks and gardens which have outgrown their ties, and even large trees with thick, mature bark can be damaged by growing up against an immovable object, such as a wire fence.
But the effect, upon the minds of young persons, of frequenting the society of those in whose conversation and manners religious principle or feeling does not appear, will almost inevitably be to render what they know of religion the source of uneasiness, and of fruitless conflicts between conscience and inclination: and if, at the same time, much of hollow religionism is witnessed by them, the probable result will be either immovable indifference, or confirmed infidelity. Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor
The second row was an immovable force - an England captain in the making. The Sun
The second row was an immovable force - an England captain in the making. The Sun
What was more, it could not buck a far more immovable force - geography. Times, Sunday Times
In their thinking, there are no absolute moral laws and there is no such thing as an unshakable, immovable standard of behavior which applies to all people throughout all time.
The immovable object dealt with the usually unstoppable force. Times, Sunday Times
Ulpian, Curule Aediles’ Edict, book 1: Labeo writes that the edict of the curule aediles concerns the sales of things immovable as much as of those movable or animate. 1.
As in, an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
In the case of immovable property acquired as capital goods the adjustment period may be extended up to 10 years.
It is bleak and grey in that unforgiving metal mass, that immovable obstacle, that hideous lump of common sense; the cursed headfuck that is the way things really are. Archive 2009-02-01
For the time being, your house is protected from such a claim because it is considered immovable property. Times, Sunday Times
The immovable hypothec is granted in the prescribed manner described in the Civil Code of Québec.
No business tax is levied on the behavior of using immovable property to invest and buy shares, participate in receiving the investor's profit distribution and jointly share investment risks.
Any train travelling at a decent speed is going to derail when it hits something solid and immovable like a car.
In their thinking, there are no absolute moral laws and there is no such thing as an unshakable, immovable standard of behavior which applies to all people throughout all time.
The immovable object dealt with the usually unstoppable force. Times, Sunday Times
IT'S the irresistible force against the immovable object. The Sun
The immovable and irresistible are poised in perfect balance. Times, Sunday Times
The problem was that both sets of posts have been firmly anchored in concrete for years and were immovable.
Not so long ago this match would have been billed as the irresistible force versus the immovable object. The Sun
Note, When we are most in the dark concerning the meaning of God's dispensations we must still resolve to keep up right thoughts of God, and must be confident of this, that he never did, nor ever will do, the least wrong to any of his creatures; even when his judgments are unsearchable as a great deep, and altogether unaccountable, yet his righteousness is as conspicuous and immovable as the great mountains, Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
For the time being, your house is protected from such a claim because it is considered immovable property. Times, Sunday Times
Our stance on school attendance and truancy is immovable.
If a policeman on horseback represents the immovable object, a cop straddling a bike represents a precariously balanced man on wheels.
By this idea of solidity is the extension of body distinguished from the extension of space: - the extension of body being nothing but the cohesion or continuity of solid, separable, movable parts; and the extension of space, the continuity of unsolid, inseparable, and immovable parts. God, Aids & Circumcision
Since then, formerly unassailable reputations have been elevated and devastated, unstoppable swillers have clashed with immovable pounders, and many great men and women have been carried away by the tide.
Joints are classified in terms of their structure as fibrous, cartilaginous, or synovial, and in terms of their operation as immovable or movable.
The state-run Korean Central News Agency KCNA described him for the first time as a "great person born of heaven" - a phrase previously bestowed only on his father and grandfather - and "the eternally immovable mental mainstay of the Korean people". The Guardian World News
Not so long ago this match would have been billed as the irresistible force versus the immovable object. The Sun
In that combative battlefield there seems to be no middle ground, just the immovable solidarity of two irreconcilable forces.
Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemæus of Pelusium) constituted a new astronomical system that claimed the Earth to be immovable in the centre of the universe; a system that seemed, as it were, to reach its completion when, between a.d. 142 and 146, Ptolemy wrote a work called Megale mathematike syntaxis tes astronomias, its Arabian title being transliterated by the Christians of the Middle Ages, who named it "Almagest". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
By this idea of solidity is the extension of body distinguished from the extension of space: — the extension of body being nothing but the cohesion or continuity of solid, separable, movable parts; and the extension of space, the continuity of unsolid, inseparable, and immovable parts. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
In desperation, at least 24 genuine refugees in the immovable queue got on that boat and drowned.
Downtown, an immovable fog blankets the financial district. The Times Literary Supplement
WHEN the irresistible force meets the immovable object, something has to give. The Sun
As the saying goes, unstoppable force against immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
The Democratic presidential race is now between a seemingly unstoppable force and an apparently immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
Against this surging forward of Irish and German, of Russian Jew, Slav and "dago" her social bars have not availed, but against Negroes she can and does take her unflinching and immovable stand, backed by this new public policy of Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil
Immovable if we choose to make them immovable, that is. Archive 2007-09-01
So this is what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object. Times, Sunday Times
They are not immovable — they come to us from the outside, and what we call the highest is for ever changing. Christian Doctrine of Sin
And we must acknowledge that as there are two kinds of knowledge, so there are two kinds of being corresponding to them; the one uncreated, indestructible, immovable, which is seen by intelligence only; the other created, which is always becoming in place and vanishing out of place, and is apprehended by opinion and sense. Timaeus
Unfortunately, over the years, Philadelphia's building trades unions have been unfairly criticized as being immovable in our principles at a cost to the city's future growth and prosperity.

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