To be sure, the old guard will continue to clamor on about the immutable centrality of a carbon tax.

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Before the crisis, South Koreans had generally shown a seemingly immutable and rather Confucian degree of financial conservatism and thrift.

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But isn't it modern practice to retire at the usual age, or is a constitutional monarch as immutable as the pope?

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This ensures that the new kilogram will be a truly universal and immutable standard, set in something much firmer than stone, or even platinum: the fundamental laws of nature.

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Unlike opera and symphony performances, potentially infinite in number, a movie is single, immutable, like sculpture.

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The key, according to Tariq Ramadan of Oxford University is to distinguish "principles" that are immutable and "models" that are a product of the time and place the stories were told.

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One of the more immutable disadvantages of Astana is that it is a long way from anywhere.

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This is interesting, as Fishman notes, because it suggests that the rush to offshore over the last decade may be more of a fad than the result of immutable laws of comparative advantage.

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The second, the unchangeability bias, is the idea that when we face large decisions that seem to be immutable (getting married, having kids, moving to a distant place), the permanence of these decisions makes them seem even larger and more frightening.

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