It has triggered irreconcilable emotions and sensitivities that are inconsistent with the actions of our Governments and threaten the unity of our countries.

We must meet challenges in the space arena through the active pursuit of consensus rather than waiting for the emergence of irreconcilable interests.

Yet, while the two parties now seem irreconcilable, it is not too late for compromise. But this is possible only by resuscitating and updating an old institution of the international community a confederation of states.

As an active interlocutor in each and every debate on crucial issues before the Conference, Ambassador Umer has been well known and highly regarded for his outstandingly clear and elegance syntheses of the complex and seemingly irreconcilable views.

Experts in Hebrew culture explained that Judaism and Norway s constitution were irreconcilable. Mosaic law was, so the experts said, the only constitution recognized by Jews, and so it should be feared, in the way modern critics of Islam fear Sharia law.

This bizarre brew appears to have been concocted in an effort to reconcile the irreconcilable the current yearning for democracy with Russia s despotic past. But, like any muddle, it is succeeding only in confusing Russians about themselves and their country.

Politicians know that macroeconomic stabilization and social cohesion can be irreconcilable in the short run. Slashing food and energy subsidies in order to reduce fiscal strain is unlikely to win favor in a country like Egypt, where 40 of per capita income is allocated to food.

TEL AVIV The Israeli Palestinian peace process, stymied by irreconcilable differences between the parties, has always depended on the strategic regional context. It was born, after all, in the wake of the first Gulf War, and was facilitated by the regional consequences of the Cold War s end.

CAIRO The aggrieved supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the jubilant protesters who pushed the military to remove him have divided Egypt into two irreconcilable camps, both reflecting and reinforcing the country s deeper problems. Indeed, Egypt is now largely an ungovernable country that subsists on generous foreign handouts.

Britain s relationship with European integration has been a difficult one, regardless of which party has been in power (Wilson, after all, was a Labour prime minister). This was inevitable from the outset, owing to Britain s deep and irreconcilable disagreement with virtually all other EU member states on the fundamental issue of pooling sovereignty.

But keeping Russia at arm s length from Europe has only strengthened the sense of isolation that many Russians feel, tempting them to define the country s interests in ways that are irreconcilable with those of Europe. It has also heightened Russia s desire to construct a special, bilateral Russo German relationship heedless of the context of the EU.

With respect to the draft international convention for the suppression of acts of nuclear terrorism, it was noted that the divergence of views that still existed was not irreconcilable and that the Working Group should build on the progress achieved thus far, bearing in mind the common objective of adopting the convention to suppress acts of nuclear terrorism.

Since the Security Council found it impossible to choose between the various options presented to it at that time, Mr. Baker, in January 2003 and without prior consultations, presented to the parties his proposed peace plan in which he tried to combined two irreconcilable approaches, that is, the Settlement Plan of which the failure and inapplicability were duly noted and the Draft Framework Agreement.

Some member states are touting their sovereign right to embrace unilateral action, even as they request financial assistance, while others are acting as mere creditors, ignoring the social suffering that the current debt crisis has caused. To return to the path of innovative integration, the EU needs a new framework for public debate that underpins effective cooperation among partners and friends, instead of fueling conflict among seemingly irreconcilable rivals.

Nonetheless, though predictions that China would abandon its exchange rate controls in order to uphold monetary autonomy have proved wrong over the last decade, this time may be different. With China s liberalization of interest rates and short term capital flows making it increasingly difficult for the country to juggle Mundell s irreconcilable trinity, one hopes that Chinese leaders will finally allow the renminbi to float, while keeping in place existing capital controls.