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223 examples of Irresistible in a sentence

The Irresistible Rise of the RenminbiBEIJING – China is making a big push to encourage greater international use of its currency, the renminbi.
Is the Middle East faced with a neo-Ottoman Turkey’s irresistible rise to regional power?
And the temptation to pursue shortsighted solutions – such as closing borders and implementing protectionism – will become irresistible.
Just as public perceptions are undermining Sarkozy’s political prospects, they are fueling Juppé’s irresistible rise.
India’s Fiscal FolliesNEW DEHLI -- India’s new budget for 2008-2009 says less about the country’s current financial health than it does about the irresistible tendency of Indian governments to use the national budget as a pre-election cudgel.
Once in motion they occur “with irresistible force.”
Whenever stock markets have fallen sharply, as they did in early February and again after Trump announced his trade sanctions on China, the bond-buying instinct became irresistible, bond prices rallied, and the resulting reductions in long-term interest rates stabilized stock markets.
The 9/11 terrorists’ second blunder was to believe that their terrorist attacks would inspire irresistible surge in anti-Western Islamist extremism.
This outer orbit would also attract Norway and Switzerland through the irresistible pull of economic gravity.
The two major formative experiences of Syria’s Ba’ath regime have been Hafez al-Assad’s loss of the Golan Heights in the 1967 war with Israel, and the loss of Lebanon by his son, Bashar, who was forced to withdraw his army under irresistible American-led international pressure.
The chance of a better life – or any life at all – is all but irresistible to the people trapped in these areas.
It is difficult to avoid the implication that Europe’s need for immigrants is likely to combine with massive, and probably irresistible, migratory pressure from developing countries to the developed world.
As a rule, they die unexpectedly from some internal disease – from irresistible existential disgust at themselves, from their own exhaustion.
Typically, employers – including Fox News – match workers’ 401(k) contributions, so setting up a 401(k) is an irresistible financial deal, a true no-brainer.
LONDON – After last year, when the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and the United States elected Donald Trump as president, xenophobic nationalism was beginning to seem irresistible.
And yet it begins to look as though they may nevertheless be in the process of being overcome by the irresistible imperatives of the Kosovo crisis.
The speed of Vladimir Putin's seemingly irresistible rise astounds everyone.
By legitimizing the concept of an EU breakup, and thus turning a fantasy among political extremists into a realistic option of mainstream politics throughout Europe, Brexit threatens to trigger an irresistible disintegration process.
The lure of borrowing becomes irresistible if it can be assumed that the burden might be shifted to population groups other than those benefiting today from low taxation or higher public spending.
During the United States’ early decades, debt mutualization triggered an irresistible urge to borrow.
The same officials who lord it over ordinary Chinese people often summon irresistible charm to woo Western investors.
When powerful booms emerge in other sectors, the temptation to argue that “this time is different” will again be irresistible.
For foreigners, pachinko is a gaudy scene – the players, including professionals who make a living from it, seem glued to their spots – and thus an understandably irresistible photo opportunity.
We think of hurricanes as natural and irresistible events, so all we can do is reduce the loss of life and the damage they cause.
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They hoped that establishing a monetary union would generate irresistible pressure for the creation of an EU that functioned in all respects as a cohesive economic and political bloc.
But they were wrong about the irresistible part.
Having access to insured credit, banks’ shareholders find it irresistible to borrow excessively.
Meanwhile financial fragmentation within the eurozone continues;Spain, and to a lesser extent Italy, suffers a seemingly irresistible rise in borrowing costs; and political strains grow more visible.
Last year, when the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, and the US elected Donald Trump its president, the rise of right-wing populism went from seemingly impossible to seemingly irresistible.
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