Unalterable

No one form of Church polity as permanently unalterable is laid down in the New Testament though the apostolical order of bishops, or presbyters, and deacons, superintended by higher overseers (called bishops after the apostolic times), has the highest sanction of primitive usage. ❋ Unknown (1871)

You will say, however, that facts remain unalterable; and that in some unlucky instance, in the changes and chances of human affairs, you may be proved to have been to blame. ❋ Unknown (1798)

Hitherto most philosophy, the illegitimate heir of religion, had been a consolation and an apology for the constraints and limits of human existence which were represented as necessary; it had therefore been a prop supporting the existing social order, just because its definitions of freedom had been abstract and had claimed some kind of unalterable necessity. ❋ Hampshire, Stuart (1965)

Being sent for education to any Popish school or college abroad, upon conviction, incurs (if the party sent has any estate of inheritance) a kind of unalterable and perpetual outlawry. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)

Constitution makes clear that the court may only inspect such articles according to their form and not their content, while others say the court has the authority to intervene if an article contradicts the Constitution's first three "unalterable" articles. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What is commonplace in this second sense of the term is people's ability to assign violently competing values to the same object, whether that object be gold, free silver, friendship, or an "unalterable" sense of reality. ❋ Unknown (2010)

_ "unalterable" _ regulations were unnecessary where, as in a republic, all power was vested in the people. ❋ Maria Louise Greene (N/A)

"unalterable" Seven Commandments into Napoleon's own laws. ❋ Unknown (1995)

But then you realize: the forces directing you will be unalterable. ❋ Karen Talavera (2011)

It crushed them with the weight of unending vastness and unalterable decree. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They do not fix the future on an unalterable course. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)

We are all bornwith a serious and unalterable defect: We grow old — at least the lucky among us do — and then we die. ❋ Joseph Epstein (2011)

I am unalterable in my conviction that to take a husband would be to tempt the cruelest fate. ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)

Alas, it's a sad commentary that journalists such as Seymour Hersh do not adopt truth and consequences as their daily watchwords, thus supplying sorely needed unalterable facts to Congress, the White House and all Americans. ❋ Unknown (2011)

January 25, 1993 The Court further stated that "it is an unalterable fact that our judicial system, like the human beings who administer it, is fallible." ❋ Bianca Jagger (2011)

But Dharamshala chose to see the new reality as inescapable and unalterable, and used it as a part excuse, part self-fulfilling prophecy to warn the exile public that if the issue of independence were raised Tibetans would loose their support in the West, that the Dalai Lama would not be welcome anywhere anymore, and that Tibetan refugees might even be deported from the countries where they had found refuge. ❋ Jamyang Norbu (2011)