that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior. Origin of indomitable.
Published: December 9, 1981. MADRID, Dec. 8â A scandal involving adulterated cooking oil, which has killed 215 persons in Spain since last spring, has brought the nation's seafood canning industry to the verge of collapse. Although no poisonous oil has been found in 18,000 spot-checks of canned seafood, consumers' confidence has been shattered.
The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground on Portsall Rocks, 5 km (3.1 mi) from the coast of Brittany, France, on 16 March 1978, and ultimately split in three and sank, all together resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date.