immovable object
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimmovableandobject
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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, ...
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(Definition ofimmovableandobjectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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That was the impasse, theimmovableobject.
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That is theimmovableobjectand the irresistible force.
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A bollard is animmovableobject, concreted in the ground.
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Here we have the irresistible force and theimmovableobject.
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That was the irresistible force meeting theimmovableobject.
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It has set itself up as animmovableobjectmeeting an irresistible force.
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So there you have the irresistible force and theimmovableobject.
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It reminds one of what happens when an irresistible force comes up against animmovableobject.
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This is like the meeting of theimmovableobjectand the irresistible force.
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It is the irresistible force meeting theimmovableobjectand something has to give.
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We should see the irresistible force coming up against theimmovableobject.
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Are we left in the position of animmovableobjectconfronted by an irresistible force?
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The irresistible force is moving ever closer to theimmovableobject.
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Theimmovableobjectis 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 animmovableobject.
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We are faced with this fact, that this is almost a case of the irresistible force meeting theimmovableobject.
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My reason for saying that is that an irresistible force is moving terribly quickly towards animmovableobject.
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This week, we have seen the irresistible force of parental obligation meeting theimmovableobjectof political correctness.
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If a flail strikes animmovableobject, it simply bounces off.
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If the train hits animmovableobjector 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 animmovableobject, and that can lead to nothing but confrontation.
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As soon as we start to negotiate, we cease to be theimmovableobjectwhich 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 animmovableobject.
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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 animmovableobject.
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This leads to a situation where an irresistible force meets animmovableobject, somewhere about the middle of the bridge, and it is all very wearing and tiring.
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