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immovable object

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meanings of immovableand object


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immovable
adjective
uk /ɪˈmuː.və.bəl/ us /ɪˈmuː.və.bəl/
fixed and impossible ...
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object
noun
uk /ˈɒb.dʒɪkt/ us /ˈɑːb.dʒɪkt/
a thing that you can see or touch but that is not usually a living animal, plant, ...
See more at object


Examples of immovable object


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That was the impasse, the immovableobject.
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That is the immovableobject and the irresistible force.
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A bollard is an immovableobject, concreted in the ground.
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Here we have the irresistible force and the immovableobject.
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That was the irresistible force meeting the immovableobject.
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It has set itself up as an immovableobject meeting an irresistible force.
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So there you have the irresistible force and the immovableobject.
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It reminds one of what happens when an irresistible force comes up against an immovableobject.
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This is like the meeting of the immovableobject and the irresistible force.
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It is the irresistible force meeting the immovableobject and something has to give.
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We should see the irresistible force coming up against the immovableobject.
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Are we left in the position of an immovableobject confronted by an irresistible force?
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The irresistible force is moving ever closer to the immovableobject.
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The immovableobject is that same motor car, stuck in a traffic jam.
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The trouble has been the primacy given to local government boundaries and that has seemed to be an immovableobject.
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We are faced with this fact, that this is almost a case of the irresistible force meeting the immovableobject.
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My reason for saying that is that an irresistible force is moving terribly quickly towards an immovableobject.
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This week, we have seen the irresistible force of parental obligation meeting the immovableobject of political correctness.
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If a flail strikes an immovableobject, it simply bounces off.
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If the train hits an immovableobject or a train coming in the other direction, the carriage completely shears off the base.
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But otherwise we are faced with the situation of an irresistible force up against an immovableobject, and that can lead to nothing but confrontation.
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As soon as we start to negotiate, we cease to be the immovableobject which can be diverted only by violence.
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The whole notion of contemporary defence seems to me to set the conundrum of what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovableobject.
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It is also because, as one newspaper stated last week, having created that irresistible force, they have sought to turn employers into an immovableobject.
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This leads to a situation where an irresistible force meets an immovableobject, somewhere about the middle of the bridge, and it is all very wearing and tiring.
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