When Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type a half-millennium ago, he also gave us immovable text.
This peculiar tension, immovable object and irresistible force, is unlikely to change before election day.
General Musharraf made yet another pitch for the jets last week but Mr Bush was immovable.
And then we've got the immovable object which is public aversion to a third runway at Heathrow.
Many nationalists regard Mr Donaldson as the voice of immovable unionism, refusing to compromise or accommodate other traditions.
The economy is caught between an unstoppable force on one side and an immovable object on the other.
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But a few months on, the generals appear as immovable as ever.
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And now she stands, tall and immovable, lighting the way to dreams, that symbol of hope, that Statue of Liberty.
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Throughout Mr Gore's rollercoaster ride in the national polls, the Senate race has been stuck in an immovable dead heat.
We lose more future economic activity by collecting taxes this way than we do by taxing consumption or immovable property.
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When it is backed into a corner, the food industry, which is highly traditional, can become an immovable, impervious solid.
Like Andy, I came up against a seemingly immovable object like Nadal when I played Pete Sampras in my first two semi-finals.
It contains several electrodes, with immovable positively charged particles to attract electrons.
Sadly, Buster Merryfield - who played the brothers' immovable high rise guest Uncle Albert - has died since the sitcom went off air.
"It was the worst best idea I ever had, " Ms. MacIsaac said of the slyly grown-up treat, now an immovable fixture on her menu.
Though it hurt me at the time, I have the blessing of perspective today as I look back on those standing, steadfast, and immovable experiences.
According to Article 39 of the Law of Personal Status for the Catholic communities (Syrians and Lebanese), spouses may each keep ownership of movable and immovable properties.
Given the unstoppable force of users uploading content against the immovable object of rights holders attempting to control the distribution of their content, YouTube ostensibly did nothing.
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At the moment men are entitled to all of their wife's immovable property when she dies, while women can only claim a third of their late husband's estate.
Though creaky and aging, he can still be categorized as an immovable object, and the last section of the film expands into a crunching collision between law and order.
Immovable property includes land, the house and its fixtures.
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She is one of a number of Greek Cypriots who have applied to the Immovable Property Commission, a body set up by the TRNC to assess claims to ownership of land in northern Cyprus.
But that immovable boundary has in fact shifted.
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Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations.
If Lord had been given to large interpretations, he might have seen in the one ship a symbol of the urgent force of human striving and, in the other, the immovable resistance of sheer stupidity.
The irresistible force of Fed money-printing collides with the immovable object of a great correction in the smash-up, the debris flies in every direction, giving us a bewildering, mixed-up picture that looks a lot like stagflation.
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That is so because oil is immovable.
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