What's the difference between changed and irrevocable?

Changed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Change

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
  • (2) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
  • (3) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
  • (4) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
  • (5) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
  • (6) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (7) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
  • (8) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
  • (9) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
  • (10) Changes in cardiac adenosine triphosphate (ATP), phosphocreatine (PCr) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) were followed and intracellular pH (pHi) was estimated from the chemical shift of Pi.
  • (11) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
  • (12) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (13) As collapse was imminent, MAP increased but CO and TPR did not change significantly.
  • (14) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
  • (15) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
  • (16) No significant change occurred in the bacterial population of our hospital unit during the period of the study (more than 3 years).
  • (17) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
  • (18) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
  • (19) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
  • (20) The pancreatic changes are unlikely to be an artefact, but rather a direct toxic effect of the alcohol as confirmed by the biochemical changes.

Irrevocable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable; irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable promise or decree; irrevocable fate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Continuing corporate concerns over the costs of health care, and recent changes in federal policies regarding Medicare and the taxation of employee benefit funds, threaten to alter the system of postretirement health benefits substantially and perhaps irrevocably for many.
  • (2) It took the first intifada (the largely unarmed, six-year uprising that preceded the current, far more violent one) to transform Yassin wholly and irrevocably, and to pitchfork him into the forefront of the Palestinian struggle as a serious rival to Arafat himself.
  • (3) The council had been politically unstable and divided, and although parents were voting with their feet – less than half were choosing to send their children to the borough's secondary schools – there was a widespread feeling that nothing could be done, that the borough's failings were irrevocable.
  • (4) Tsipras also emphasised that Greece is a “sovereign country with an irrevocable right to conduct a multi-faceted foreign policy”.
  • (5) Monocytic differentiation was reversible upon removal of CSF-1, implying that CSF-1 was required for maintenance of the monocyte phenotype but was not sufficient to induce an irrevocable commitment to differentiation.
  • (6) Fertility in women 40 years of age or older is decreased, and in those with ovarian failure it is thought to be irrevocably lost.
  • (7) Still, there's an upside to 007's monogamy, and it may just explain how this much-maligned film has wheedled its way so irrevocably into my affections: uniquely in the world of Bond, it allows a vein of romantic adventure to develop that's real, not illusory.
  • (8) The reason for King's change of view is simple: he believes the world changed irrevocably on 15 September last year when the collapse of Lehman Brothers set off a month of financial turmoil that plunged the global economy into a deep slump.
  • (9) In the first experiment, 14-day prenatal lung explants (14 + 0 days) containing macrophage precursors but not matured cells were exposed to individual CSFs for 7 days in an attempt to determine whether precursors are committed irrevocably to the macrophage line or can be altered by exposure to factors promoting significant granulocyte development.
  • (10) The team’s failure led to the immediate and “irrevocable” resignations of both the manager and the president of the Italian federation, Giancarlo Abete.
  • (11) Above all, he must face the increasing suggestion that his party is irrevocably on course to do significantly worse with him as its leader in the 2015 general election than it would do under someone new, specifically the business secretary Vince Cable .
  • (12) Lord Mandelson, the former Labour business secretary, has also said he is no longer a supporter and that Labour should "think twice before binding themselves irrevocably" to the project Patrick McLoughlin, the transport secretary, rejected Darling's claim that going ahead with HS2 could have "catastrophic" consequences for spending on other transport infrastructure.
  • (13) In a sworn affidavit accompanying the motion, Dershowitz states that Roberts’s lawyers “levelled totally false and outrageous charges against me that have been damaged around the world and threaten to damage my reputation irrevocably”.
  • (14) Without the presence and participation of those Jews, Europe irrevocably lost a crucial and invaluable element of its identity.
  • (15) "We, the people of the Azawad [desert region] proclaim the irrevocable independence of the state of the Azawad starting from this day, Friday 6 April 2012," the statement read.
  • (16) The irrevocable breakdown of leucine was estimated from the 3H-labelling of body water.
  • (17) Particularly grave in its consequences is the gastric stump carcinoma with its fateful and irrevocable course for patients with B II gastrectomy if regular gastroscopic and laboratory follow-up inspection do not take place (regardless of questionable operation indication).
  • (18) Do your own due diligence before making irrevocable choices.
  • (19) Michael Jacobs, senior adviser for the New Climate Economy project, says the long-term goals in the agreement send investors the clearest sign “that the world was on an irreversible and irrevocable downward trend in emissions”.
  • (20) But there are deep nerves in Whitehall that George Osborne is reaching the stage where voters will make an irrevocable judgment that he has failed to deliver his two key economic pledges made during the 2010 election.