Unsurprisingly, opposition to reform was implacable.

Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful

But just that sentence hides within it an implacable dispute.

Liberals, being people of good will, find it hard to conceive of implacable enemies.

Israel, the once implacable enemy of the Arab cause, now seems to be slotted into this defensive structure.

But what, then, do we do when we confront enemies so implacable that they stop at nothing to impose their values?

The philosophy of sumud is rooted in Palestinians implacable belief in the righteousness of their cause and the justness of their methods.

So how are we to distinguish implacable enemies from run of the mill adversaries, and how are we do deal with them?

That strategic nightmare cost Israel and the US their closest ally in the region, one that was soon transformed into an implacable enemy.

It was this Iraqi attitude of implacable hostility that, in 1998, forced UN weapons inspectors to leave the country, leading to today's confrontation.

At the time, hardliners on both sides denounced the LTBT as a weakening of national defense in the face of an implacable enemy.

That strategic nightmare cost Israel and the US their closest ally in the region, one that was soon transformed into an implacable enemy.

How wrong they were, and how miraculous was Mandela s achievement in making even his most implacable enemies feel at home in post apartheid South Africa.

The German delegation was led by Alfred Hugenberg, who was not a Nazi but wanted to show that he was an even more implacable nationalist than Hitler himself.

In the measure that scientists, absorbed in their research and fascinated by technology, forget this profound teaching of the humanities, they will continue to fall prey to Bias, their implacable nemesis.

The conclusion of Elie Barnavi s recent essay Les religions meurtrières ( Murderous religions ) is entitled Against the dialogue of civilizations. His argument is implacable There is civilization on one hand and barbarism on the other.

The conclusion of Elie Barnavi s recent essay Les religions meurtrières ( Murderous religions ) is entitled Against the dialogue of civilizations. His argument is implacable There is civilization on one hand and barbarism on the other.

Key military figures tacit backing for the Turkish Parliament s refusal to endorse the March 2003 US led invasion of Iraq suggests that Turkish nationalism could unite the AKP s rank and file MPs with their otherwise implacable foes in the secular camp.

To maintain their influence, it seems, they believe that they need to create an image of America as Russia s implacable enemy, which, by extending NATO membership to ex communist countries, is bringing an existential threat right to the country s doorstep.

Key military figures tacit backing for the Turkish Parliament s refusal to endorse the March 2003 US led invasion of Iraq suggests that Turkish nationalism could unite the AKP s rank and file MPs with their otherwise implacable foes in the secular camp.

So, when an ideologically implacable Republican opposition, in his very first days in office, threw the vision back in his face, adopting a policy of scorched earth opposition, the rejection was about more than policy it affected his very being.

The problem with this saying is the paranoid mindset behind it, for it implies that the nature of Russian US relations has not changed fundamentally since the Cold War s end that the animosities that exist between the two countries are those of two permanently implacable geopolitical opponents.

But the same majority fears that the Palestinians with the split leadership of a relatively moderate Fatah under Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and a Gaza administration under the implacable, terror supporting leadership of Hamas are not ready for a conventional peace and good neighborly relations.