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Synonyms for adamantine

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Synonyms for adamantine

having the hardness of a diamond

Related Words

impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason

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"I spent the last two years with an eye on Mike joining Adamantine," said Tisha Schuller, Adamantine Energy's principal.
And the fact that we live in thesame neighborhood has been torturous and tempting.I guess I'm caving in but I know your adamantine mind will understand.And even if I'm granted a Leave of Absence I've thought about some ofthe curious gadgets the faithful bring whenever they visit which could solvethe dilemma of my absence.
14 -- Sony continues to ban cross-platform play and now its adamantine policy is hurting its PlayStation 4 customers even more.
That fight has met, so far, an adamantine refusal to compromise from the government.
Clearly, when Theresa May called the election last spring--promising an adamantine Brexit and an attractive selection of Labour economic policies--she was on the way to a landslide.
"I do not see it is actually in the continent's strategic interest to be quite that adamantine, but this is still in the middle of a negotiation so it is not necessarily relevant," he said.
The Austrian artist is best known for his large-scale sculptures of the 1980s and '90s--iron, aluminum, wood, and plastic giants that seem anything but reticent, not only because of their size but also because of their adamantine surfaces, which are typically achieved via a slathering of bronze, gold, or silver powder paint on the models, which are then cast in metal.
But it's the sentences--those adamantine, poetic sentences--that made him one of America's great and lasting writers." ANTHONY DOMESTICO
We find the same idea in Spenser, although the following formula is somewhat ambiguous: "the earth, the ayre, the water, and the fyre" are taken by Love and are placed in order, and compelled, "[t]ogether linkt with Adamantine chaines" (An hymne in honour of love, 78, 89; Spenser 1959: 587).
The first is The Song of Bernadette (1943), a screenplay about a devout young woman who experiences a divine revelation; the second, The Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of Saint Therese of Lisieux (1899), a narrative of saintly piety in which Lucy immerses herself, though later to fortify her adamantine resolve because she misconstrues the work's Christology.
Craig Bridgman -- Former Global Head of Investment Banking for Clarkson Capital Markets, currently Executive Chairman of East Africa Oil Field Services and Founder of Adamantine Energy and who sits on a number of advisory boards.
The results showed that parent compound 4-(4'-Bromophenyl)-4-hydroxy piperdine exhibited no inhibitory response whereas significant activity was shown by the compounds, 1-(1''-Adamantan acyl)-4- (4'- bromophenyl)-4-hydroxy piperidinium Hydrobromide (I) This kind of exhibition due to the substitution of adamantane group in molecule and adamantine is responsible for causing the modulation of neurotransmitter Furthermore quarternization with piperidine ring made it more suitable for cholinergic activity [18].
All fully sequenced viruses from human infections had the matrix (M) gene from the influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 virus, which has been seen in H3N2v outbreaks since 2011 and has been found to enhance transmissibility in several animal models (6,7) and confer resistance to adamantine antiviral drugs (amantadine and rimantadine).
The viruses isolated from humans in 2014 had no mutations associated with reduced sensitivity to adamantine antiviral drugs, but 2 of the 3 viruses isolated in 2015 have the 31N amino acid in M2, suggesting that those 2 viruses have acquired resistance.