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

His argument is implacable There is civilization on one hand and barbarism on the other.

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

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

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.

As Iraq advances on the road to freedom and normality against the implacable though weakening resistance of terrorists and other forces of reaction, and as it reintegrates itself into the community of nations, two factors remain vital.

The philosophy of sumud is rooted in Palestinians implacable belief in the righteousness of their cause and the justness of their methods. It operates both passively and actively in Palestinian culture, demanding stubbornness and tolerating ruthlessness, violence, and duplicity.

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.

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.

Nevertheless, the Arab Spring revolutions did undermine the pillars of the regional status quo, whose construction and maintenance the Kingdom had underwritten with its petrodollars. The uprisings ousted reliable old allies like Hosni Mubarak, and turned regimes such as Syrian President Bashar al Assad s into implacable enemies.

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. If the EU were to snub Turkey openly over membership, or if America were to seem too lax on the Kurdish problem in Northern Iraq, a huge swathe of the two camps could well unite.