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irreconcilables

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  • noun Plural form of irreconcilable.

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Examples

  • But the way you stop the madness, according to the military, according to the State Department and General Petraeus, who I talked to on Wednesday, is you take the Taliban, the so-called irreconcilables, and I think that they would include Mullah Mohammed Omar in them.

    CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2009 2009

  • "Clearly there are so-called irreconcilables who must be killed or captured or run out of the country," he added.

    unknown title 2008

  • At that point, allied strategists hope, senior leaders of the weakened and divided insurgency will agree to substantive peace talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and "irreconcilables" like Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and his inner circle will end up isolated and largely powerless.

    Turning the Taliban 2010

  • In parallel, the task was to take on the hard core of what have come to be termed the "irreconcilables".

    Archive 2007-08-01 Richard 2007

  • In parallel, the task was to take on the hard core of what have come to be termed the "irreconcilables".

    The battle of Basra Richard 2007

  • They form thus far the largest body of "irreconcilables," to use Prof. Lowell's term, found in our land.

    Home Missions in Action Edith H. Allen

  • As early as 1870 he was set down as one of the "irreconcilables," and in

    A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

  • What worries security officers most is that, despite the large number of arrests, the terrorist groups, once thought to consist only of a handful of ageing "irreconcilables", are both recruiting new members and improving their technical capabilities.

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

  • What worries security officers most is that, despite the large number of arrests, the terrorist groups, once thought to consist only of a handful of ageing "irreconcilables", are both recruiting new members and improving their technical capabilities.

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

  • What worries security officers most is that, despite the large number of arrests, the terrorist groups, once thought to consist only of a handful of ageing "irreconcilables", are both recruiting new members and improving their technical capabilities.

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

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