Definition of immovable in English:

immovable

(also immoveable)

adjective ɪˈmuːvəb(ə)lɪ(m)ˈmuvəb(ə)l

1Not able to be moved.
不可移动的，固定的
all immovable objects have graffiti sprayed on them
所有不能移动的东西上都被喷图得乱七八糟。
Example sentencesExamples
- If a policeman on horseback represents the immovable object, a cop straddling a bike represents a precariously balanced man on wheels.
- Joints are classified in terms of their structure as fibrous, cartilaginous, or synovial, and in terms of their operation as immovable or movable.
- 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.
- Perhaps emboldened by the animal's immovable stance the cameraman decided to move a little closer.
- 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.
- 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.
- Her once beautiful, animated and expressive face has been Botoxed for so many years now that it's become an immovable mask.
- 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.
- Hold the camera in two hands, brace yourself or lean on an immovable object, select a fast enough shutter speed and check your negatives!
- It was the irresistible force against the immovable object, and the object moved.
- The pain was a gnawing one and it rendered me immovable for quite sometime.
- The problem was that both sets of posts have been firmly anchored in concrete for years and were immovable.
- Any train travelling at a decent speed is going to derail when it hits something solid and immovable like a car.
- 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.
- This afternoon's Easter Road clash is not the only Edinburgh derby this weekend where immovable object meets irresistible force.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms
fixed, secure, stable, rooted, riveted, moored, anchored, braced, set firm, set fast, fast, firm
stuck, jammed, stiff, unbudgeable
1. 1.1Law (of property) consisting of land, buildings, or other permanent items.
  〔律〕（财产）不动的
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the case of immovable property acquired as capital goods the adjustment period may be extended up to 10 years.
  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.
  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.
  Other familiar exemptions included under Article 13B (other exemptions) include insurance, the letting of immovable property, and the supply of land and buildings.
  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.
2(of a person) not yielding to argument or pressure.
（人）固执的，不屈的，坚定的
Example sentencesExamples
- Londoners were immovable in their determination to get to work on time.
- I imagined myself as immoveable and determined.
- 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?
- She tried to persuade him not to undertake the work because of its subject matter, but of course he was immovable.
- But the company remains immovable on two ‘must haves’ - the spirit's distinctive square glass bottle, and its name.
- They were immovable, intimidating, overwhelming.
- But Rosa's rebellion, her refusal to move back, her decision to be steadfast and immovable in the faith set a community on fire.
- Alexander is a winning Berowne, trying to sweet-talk the immovable Rosaline, played with saucy spirit by the small, dark Lombardo.
- It's also a materialistic time, and anyone with a stubborn personality will become practically immovable under this influence.
Synonyms
steadfast, unwavering, unswerving, resolute, determined, adamant, firm, unshakeable, unfailing, dogged, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, inflexible, unyielding, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, inexorable, iron-willed, strong-willed, steely, dead set
North American rock-ribbed
informal stiff-necked
rare indurate
1. 2.1 (especially of a principle) fixed or unchangeable.
  （尤指原则）固定的，不可更改的
  an immovable article of faith
  不可更改的信条。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This base is the immovable heart of international relations.
  Some things are immovable - family, writing, Jasperwood.
  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.
  Her love for me is as strong and immovable as her faith in God, and that knowledge alone has gotten me through several times in my life when I wondered if I were worth the effort.
  There are certain immovable problems within me.
  She had a face of such immovable stupidity that it amounted to a sort of strange beauty.
  She's always tended to join me for my afternoon nap but now it's becoming an immoveable part of our routine and I get a sound telling off if I delay things too much.
  It may be that the problem was immoveable for a European sensibility in a New World heart.
  But he also understood that the US had immovable faith in their strength, will power, and tenacity once mobilised.
  The British public were never going to be enthralled by a worthy exhibition of social issues, hurriedly assembled to meet an immovable deadline.
  It's better when you haven't got players on massively long and immovable contracts and that's the way it is going.
  Our stance on school attendance and truancy is immovable.
  Certainly, corporations can and do change the marketscape, but only within the fairly immovable constraints placed upon them by consumer desires.
  But my schedule was immovable and I was booked in that night.
  In desperation, at least 24 genuine refugees in the immovable queue got on that boat and drowned.
  The days of the two great immovable blocs of seats held by the major parties alongside a minority of perpetual marginals is long gone.
  In that combative battlefield there seems to be no middle ground, just the immovable solidarity of two irreconcilable forces.
  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.
  He has immovable opinions about all the great affairs of state, but nine-tenths of them are sheer imbecilities.
  The categories of fiction and non-fiction are among the most immovable divides in bookshops and libraries.

noun ɪˈmuːvəb(ə)lɪ(m)ˈmuvəb(ə)l

immovablesLaw

Immovable property.
〔律〕不动产
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- It is well settled that the Article covers all property rights, movable and immovable alike.
- 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.’
- The Supreme Court of India has endorsed this list and added succession to immoveables also.
- 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.

Derivatives

immovability
〔律〕不动产

noun ɪmuːvəˈbɪlɪtiɪ(m)ˌmuvəˈbɪlədi

For Nietzsche the immovability of architectural form is a metaphor of the rigid logic of metaphysics, in which will to power has become congealed and petrified.
Example sentencesExamples
- That is, assuming a moral position does not invite immovability or demand a fixed agenda on the part of the therapist.
- Some factors to consider are durability, immovability, and ease of location over time as markers become buried under grass and mulch.
- Instead of buying expandability you're really buying immovability and who on earth wants that?
- Like the cathedral and the mountain, this form had survived the Deluge by its unfaltering immovability.

immovably
〔律〕不动产

adverb ɪˈmuːvəbliɪ(m)ˈmuvəbli

Incidentally, it speaks of how immovably in residence the current prime minister is that he's been given his own eponymous adjective.
Example sentencesExamples
- Or maybe something else is making so many Westerners immovably sceptical.
- Artists are assigned to the moment when they first attracted public attention and immovably associated with the work that established their reputations - no allowance for development or variation over time.
- Trial by jury, even though it existed for time beyond record, became immovably locked into Australian constitutional law via the laws of England as a direct result of the Magna Carta 1215.
- ‘A noble cause,’ Christine said, still immovably astonished by the sight.

Definition of immovable in US English:

immovable

adjectiveɪ(m)ˈmuvəb(ə)li(m)ˈmo͞ovəb(ə)l

1Not able to be moved.
不可移动的，固定的
lock your bike to something immovable like a lamp post
Example sentencesExamples
- The pain was a gnawing one and it rendered me immovable for quite sometime.
- Joints are classified in terms of their structure as fibrous, cartilaginous, or synovial, and in terms of their operation as immovable or movable.
- 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.
- Perhaps emboldened by the animal's immovable stance the cameraman decided to move a little closer.
- Hold the camera in two hands, brace yourself or lean on an immovable object, select a fast enough shutter speed and check your negatives!
- This afternoon's Easter Road clash is not the only Edinburgh derby this weekend where immovable object meets irresistible force.
- When cooled, water becomes immovable and its fluidity is blocked.
- Obdurate and immovable, they stood, no less than the stock from which they had come.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- It was the irresistible force against the immovable object, and the object moved.
- 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.
- Any train travelling at a decent speed is going to derail when it hits something solid and immovable like a car.
- If a policeman on horseback represents the immovable object, a cop straddling a bike represents a precariously balanced man on wheels.
- The problem was that both sets of posts have been firmly anchored in concrete for years and were immovable.
- Her once beautiful, animated and expressive face has been Botoxed for so many years now that it's become an immovable mask.
- 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.
Synonyms
fixed, secure, stable, rooted, riveted, moored, anchored, braced, set firm, set fast, fast, firm
1. 1.1 (of a person) not yielding to argument or pressure.
  （人）固执的，不屈的，坚定的
  Example sentencesExamples
  They were immovable, intimidating, overwhelming.
  It's also a materialistic time, and anyone with a stubborn personality will become practically immovable under this influence.
  But the company remains immovable on two ‘must haves’ - the spirit's distinctive square glass bottle, and its name.
  Londoners were immovable in their determination to get to work on time.
  But Rosa's rebellion, her refusal to move back, her decision to be steadfast and immovable in the faith set a community on fire.
  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?
  Alexander is a winning Berowne, trying to sweet-talk the immovable Rosaline, played with saucy spirit by the small, dark Lombardo.
  She tried to persuade him not to undertake the work because of its subject matter, but of course he was immovable.
  I imagined myself as immoveable and determined.
  Synonyms
  steadfast, unwavering, unswerving, resolute, determined, adamant, firm, unshakeable, unfailing, dogged, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, inflexible, unyielding, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, inexorable, iron-willed, strong-willed, steely, dead set
2. 1.2 (especially of a principle) fixed or unchangeable.
  （尤指原则）固定的，不可更改的
  an immovable article of faith
  不可更改的信条。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Some things are immovable - family, writing, Jasperwood.
  In desperation, at least 24 genuine refugees in the immovable queue got on that boat and drowned.
  The British public were never going to be enthralled by a worthy exhibition of social issues, hurriedly assembled to meet an immovable deadline.
  Her love for me is as strong and immovable as her faith in God, and that knowledge alone has gotten me through several times in my life when I wondered if I were worth the effort.
  There are certain immovable problems within me.
  She's always tended to join me for my afternoon nap but now it's becoming an immoveable part of our routine and I get a sound telling off if I delay things too much.
  But he also understood that the US had immovable faith in their strength, will power, and tenacity once mobilised.
  She had a face of such immovable stupidity that it amounted to a sort of strange beauty.
  He has immovable opinions about all the great affairs of state, but nine-tenths of them are sheer imbecilities.
  It's better when you haven't got players on massively long and immovable contracts and that's the way it is going.
  The categories of fiction and non-fiction are among the most immovable divides in bookshops and libraries.
  The days of the two great immovable blocs of seats held by the major parties alongside a minority of perpetual marginals is long gone.
  It may be that the problem was immoveable for a European sensibility in a New World heart.
  But my schedule was immovable and I was booked in that night.
  Certainly, corporations can and do change the marketscape, but only within the fairly immovable constraints placed upon them by consumer desires.
  In that combative battlefield there seems to be no middle ground, just the immovable solidarity of two irreconcilable forces.
  This base is the immovable heart of international relations.
  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.
  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.
  Our stance on school attendance and truancy is immovable.
3. 1.3Law (of property) consisting of land, buildings, or other permanent items.
  〔律〕（财产）不动的
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the case of immovable property acquired as capital goods the adjustment period may be extended up to 10 years.
  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 recent Constitutional Court ruling against the execution of immovable property of judgment debtors was an overwhelming victory for the weak and the legally challenged.
  Other familiar exemptions included under Article 13B (other exemptions) include insurance, the letting of immovable property, and the supply of land and buildings.
  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.

nounɪ(m)ˈmuvəb(ə)li(m)ˈmo͞ovəb(ə)l

immovablesLaw

Immovable property.
〔律〕不动产
Example sentencesExamples
- It is well settled that the Article covers all property rights, movable and immovable alike.
- 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.’
- 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.
- The Supreme Court of India has endorsed this list and added succession to immoveables also.
- 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.

词汇	immovable
释义	Definition of immovable in English: immovable (also immoveable) adjective ɪˈmuːvəb(ə)lɪ(m)ˈmuvəb(ə)l 1Not able to be moved. 不可移动的，固定的 all immovable objects have graffiti sprayed on them 所有不能移动的东西上都被喷图得乱七八糟。 Example sentencesExamples If a policeman on horseback represents the immovable object, a cop straddling a bike represents a precariously balanced man on wheels. Joints are classified in terms of their structure as fibrous, cartilaginous, or synovial, and in terms of their operation as immovable or movable. 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. Perhaps emboldened by the animal's immovable stance the cameraman decided to move a little closer. 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. 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. Her once beautiful, animated and expressive face has been Botoxed for so many years now that it's become an immovable mask. 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. Hold the camera in two hands, brace yourself or lean on an immovable object, select a fast enough shutter speed and check your negatives! It was the irresistible force against the immovable object, and the object moved. The pain was a gnawing one and it rendered me immovable for quite sometime. The problem was that both sets of posts have been firmly anchored in concrete for years and were immovable. Any train travelling at a decent speed is going to derail when it hits something solid and immovable like a car. 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. This afternoon's Easter Road clash is not the only Edinburgh derby this weekend where immovable object meets irresistible force. 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. 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. 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. 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. Synonyms fixed, secure, stable, rooted, riveted, moored, anchored, braced, set firm, set fast, fast, firm stuck, jammed, stiff, unbudgeable 1.1Law (of property) consisting of land, buildings, or other permanent items. 〔律〕（财产）不动的 Example sentencesExamples In the case of immovable property acquired as capital goods the adjustment period may be extended up to 10 years. 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. 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. Other familiar exemptions included under Article 13B (other exemptions) include insurance, the letting of immovable property, and the supply of land and buildings. 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. 2(of a person) not yielding to argument or pressure. （人）固执的，不屈的，坚定的 Example sentencesExamples Londoners were immovable in their determination to get to work on time. I imagined myself as immoveable and determined. 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? She tried to persuade him not to undertake the work because of its subject matter, but of course he was immovable. But the company remains immovable on two ‘must haves’ - the spirit's distinctive square glass bottle, and its name. They were immovable, intimidating, overwhelming. But Rosa's rebellion, her refusal to move back, her decision to be steadfast and immovable in the faith set a community on fire. Alexander is a winning Berowne, trying to sweet-talk the immovable Rosaline, played with saucy spirit by the small, dark Lombardo. It's also a materialistic time, and anyone with a stubborn personality will become practically immovable under this influence. Synonyms steadfast, unwavering, unswerving, resolute, determined, adamant, firm, unshakeable, unfailing, dogged, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, inflexible, unyielding, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, inexorable, iron-willed, strong-willed, steely, dead set North American rock-ribbed informal stiff-necked rare indurate 2.1 (especially of a principle) fixed or unchangeable. （尤指原则）固定的，不可更改的 an immovable article of faith 不可更改的信条。 Example sentencesExamples This base is the immovable heart of international relations. Some things are immovable - family, writing, Jasperwood. 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. Her love for me is as strong and immovable as her faith in God, and that knowledge alone has gotten me through several times in my life when I wondered if I were worth the effort. There are certain immovable problems within me. She had a face of such immovable stupidity that it amounted to a sort of strange beauty. She's always tended to join me for my afternoon nap but now it's becoming an immoveable part of our routine and I get a sound telling off if I delay things too much. It may be that the problem was immoveable for a European sensibility in a New World heart. But he also understood that the US had immovable faith in their strength, will power, and tenacity once mobilised. The British public were never going to be enthralled by a worthy exhibition of social issues, hurriedly assembled to meet an immovable deadline. It's better when you haven't got players on massively long and immovable contracts and that's the way it is going. Our stance on school attendance and truancy is immovable. Certainly, corporations can and do change the marketscape, but only within the fairly immovable constraints placed upon them by consumer desires. But my schedule was immovable and I was booked in that night. In desperation, at least 24 genuine refugees in the immovable queue got on that boat and drowned. The days of the two great immovable blocs of seats held by the major parties alongside a minority of perpetual marginals is long gone. In that combative battlefield there seems to be no middle ground, just the immovable solidarity of two irreconcilable forces. 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. He has immovable opinions about all the great affairs of state, but nine-tenths of them are sheer imbecilities. The categories of fiction and non-fiction are among the most immovable divides in bookshops and libraries. noun ɪˈmuːvəb(ə)lɪ(m)ˈmuvəb(ə)l immovablesLaw Immovable property. 〔律〕不动产 Example sentencesExamples 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. It is well settled that the Article covers all property rights, movable and immovable alike. 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.’ The Supreme Court of India has endorsed this list and added succession to immoveables also. 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. Derivatives immovability 〔律〕不动产 noun ɪmuːvəˈbɪlɪtiɪ(m)ˌmuvəˈbɪlədi For Nietzsche the immovability of architectural form is a metaphor of the rigid logic of metaphysics, in which will to power has become congealed and petrified. Example sentencesExamples That is, assuming a moral position does not invite immovability or demand a fixed agenda on the part of the therapist. Some factors to consider are durability, immovability, and ease of location over time as markers become buried under grass and mulch. Instead of buying expandability you're really buying immovability and who on earth wants that? Like the cathedral and the mountain, this form had survived the Deluge by its unfaltering immovability. immovably 〔律〕不动产 adverb ɪˈmuːvəbliɪ(m)ˈmuvəbli Incidentally, it speaks of how immovably in residence the current prime minister is that he's been given his own eponymous adjective. Example sentencesExamples Or maybe something else is making so many Westerners immovably sceptical. Artists are assigned to the moment when they first attracted public attention and immovably associated with the work that established their reputations - no allowance for development or variation over time. Trial by jury, even though it existed for time beyond record, became immovably locked into Australian constitutional law via the laws of England as a direct result of the Magna Carta 1215. ‘A noble cause,’ Christine said, still immovably astonished by the sight. Definition of immovable in US English: immovable adjectiveɪ(m)ˈmuvəb(ə)li(m)ˈmo͞ovəb(ə)l 1Not able to be moved. 不可移动的，固定的 lock your bike to something immovable like a lamp post Example sentencesExamples The pain was a gnawing one and it rendered me immovable for quite sometime. Joints are classified in terms of their structure as fibrous, cartilaginous, or synovial, and in terms of their operation as immovable or movable. 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. Perhaps emboldened by the animal's immovable stance the cameraman decided to move a little closer. Hold the camera in two hands, brace yourself or lean on an immovable object, select a fast enough shutter speed and check your negatives! This afternoon's Easter Road clash is not the only Edinburgh derby this weekend where immovable object meets irresistible force. When cooled, water becomes immovable and its fluidity is blocked. Obdurate and immovable, they stood, no less than the stock from which they had come. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. It was the irresistible force against the immovable object, and the object moved. 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. Any train travelling at a decent speed is going to derail when it hits something solid and immovable like a car. If a policeman on horseback represents the immovable object, a cop straddling a bike represents a precariously balanced man on wheels. The problem was that both sets of posts have been firmly anchored in concrete for years and were immovable. Her once beautiful, animated and expressive face has been Botoxed for so many years now that it's become an immovable mask. 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. Synonyms fixed, secure, stable, rooted, riveted, moored, anchored, braced, set firm, set fast, fast, firm 1.1 (of a person) not yielding to argument or pressure. （人）固执的，不屈的，坚定的 Example sentencesExamples They were immovable, intimidating, overwhelming. It's also a materialistic time, and anyone with a stubborn personality will become practically immovable under this influence. But the company remains immovable on two ‘must haves’ - the spirit's distinctive square glass bottle, and its name. Londoners were immovable in their determination to get to work on time. But Rosa's rebellion, her refusal to move back, her decision to be steadfast and immovable in the faith set a community on fire. 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? Alexander is a winning Berowne, trying to sweet-talk the immovable Rosaline, played with saucy spirit by the small, dark Lombardo. She tried to persuade him not to undertake the work because of its subject matter, but of course he was immovable. I imagined myself as immoveable and determined. Synonyms steadfast, unwavering, unswerving, resolute, determined, adamant, firm, unshakeable, unfailing, dogged, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, inflexible, unyielding, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, inexorable, iron-willed, strong-willed, steely, dead set 1.2 (especially of a principle) fixed or unchangeable. （尤指原则）固定的，不可更改的 an immovable article of faith 不可更改的信条。 Example sentencesExamples Some things are immovable - family, writing, Jasperwood. In desperation, at least 24 genuine refugees in the immovable queue got on that boat and drowned. The British public were never going to be enthralled by a worthy exhibition of social issues, hurriedly assembled to meet an immovable deadline. Her love for me is as strong and immovable as her faith in God, and that knowledge alone has gotten me through several times in my life when I wondered if I were worth the effort. There are certain immovable problems within me. She's always tended to join me for my afternoon nap but now it's becoming an immoveable part of our routine and I get a sound telling off if I delay things too much. But he also understood that the US had immovable faith in their strength, will power, and tenacity once mobilised. She had a face of such immovable stupidity that it amounted to a sort of strange beauty. He has immovable opinions about all the great affairs of state, but nine-tenths of them are sheer imbecilities. It's better when you haven't got players on massively long and immovable contracts and that's the way it is going. The categories of fiction and non-fiction are among the most immovable divides in bookshops and libraries. The days of the two great immovable blocs of seats held by the major parties alongside a minority of perpetual marginals is long gone. It may be that the problem was immoveable for a European sensibility in a New World heart. But my schedule was immovable and I was booked in that night. Certainly, corporations can and do change the marketscape, but only within the fairly immovable constraints placed upon them by consumer desires. In that combative battlefield there seems to be no middle ground, just the immovable solidarity of two irreconcilable forces. This base is the immovable heart of international relations. 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. 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. Our stance on school attendance and truancy is immovable. 1.3Law (of property) consisting of land, buildings, or other permanent items. 〔律〕（财产）不动的 Example sentencesExamples In the case of immovable property acquired as capital goods the adjustment period may be extended up to 10 years. 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 recent Constitutional Court ruling against the execution of immovable property of judgment debtors was an overwhelming victory for the weak and the legally challenged. Other familiar exemptions included under Article 13B (other exemptions) include insurance, the letting of immovable property, and the supply of land and buildings. 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. nounɪ(m)ˈmuvəb(ə)li(m)ˈmo͞ovəb(ə)l immovablesLaw Immovable property. 〔律〕不动产 Example sentencesExamples It is well settled that the Article covers all property rights, movable and immovable alike. 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.’ 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. The Supreme Court of India has endorsed this list and added succession to immoveables also. 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.
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