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  • adjective That cannot be assimilated.

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Examples

  • So we are allowed to hope that this one execution too many will demonstrate the inassimilable character of the death penalty in a State of law.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: And to Think That We Still Have to Argue Against the Death Penalty Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • So we are allowed to hope that this one execution too many will demonstrate the inassimilable character of the death penalty in a State of law.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: And to Think That We Still Have to Argue Against the Death Penalty Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • Sometimes the takes can be lined up in a progression; more often they are as inassimilable to one another as two human beings are, but neither is to be suppressed for that reason.

    The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 James F. McGrath 2010

  • Countering those of his contemporaries who feared, much as Walker had, that liberal immigration policies would bring an endless influx of inassimilable peasants, he argued that immigrants are probably more of a boon to this country than a burden.

    Immigration: The Perpetual Controversy 2006

  • Countering those of his contemporaries who feared, much as Walker had, that liberal immigration policies would bring an endless influx of inassimilable peasants, he argued that immigrants are probably more of a boon to this country than a burden.

    Immigration: The Perpetual Controversy 2006

  • No doubt everyone is an amalgam of inassimilable and contradictory tendencies, but in Sontag — who used more cubic area of her being than most people — the conflicts were perhaps enacted with unusual vigor, and perhaps the paradoxes are unusually conspicuous.

    Becoming Susan Sontag Eisenberg, Deborah 2008

  • He also suggested that Australia could entertain a North American proposal whereby racialised groups who currently reside in Australia, and who are deemed inassimilable, be offered whatever sum of money necessary to repatriate them to their country of origin: ‘Go back to a little village in Lebanon and half a million dollars could set you up in, ah...’

    Archive 2005-12-01 Kirsty 2005

  • He also suggested that Australia could entertain a North American proposal whereby racialised groups who currently reside in Australia, and who are deemed inassimilable, be offered whatever sum of money necessary to repatriate them to their country of origin: ‘Go back to a little village in Lebanon and half a million dollars could set you up in, ah...’

    Enough Rope Kirsty 2005

  • The first of these facts precludes the hypothesis of a general massacre; and the second the hypothesis of a total expulsion, or of such extinction as threatens the inassimilable native of Australia.

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • We cannot help but recall that in the 19th century, there was a similar outcry against Roman Catholics as a foreign, inassimilable mass, that our practices and values were contrary to the American way of life.

    timesunion.com: Siena Women's Basketball 2010

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