What's the difference between irrefutable and irrevocable?

Irrefutable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being refuted or disproved; indisputable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) TV thrillers offer the forensic promise that a crime will always be solved, and a random-stop DNA swab can irrefutably convict an unsuspected murderer.
  • (2) "If it is irrefutably proven that the blood of innocent Muslims is spilled by the negligence of mujahideen then a penalty should be implemented in accordance with sharia," the statement said.
  • (3) It has been the experience of major urban EMS systems that field participation by physicians has lent irrefutable credibility to the authority of medical directors.
  • (4) In Professor Barnes’s report we now have irrefutable evidence that cannabis is an effective medicine for very large numbers of people,” Meacher told the Guardian.
  • (5) Sex-reversal of these individuals has been irrefutably demonstrated through genetic, cytogenetic, enzymatic and immunological studies.
  • (6) What last year’s revelations showed us was irrefutable evidence that unencrypted communications on the internet are no longer safe.
  • (7) Phyllis Dorothy James was born in Oxford in 1920 – a year that's doubly celebrated by crime aficionados, since it also heralded the dawning of the Golden Age of detective fiction , that interwar flowering of intricately plotted mysteries, in which the preternaturally shrewd detective is invited to pick his way through a liberal scattering of clues and red herrings, before confronting reader and murderer with his irrefutable conclusions in the final pages.
  • (8) Carcinogen-DNA adduct formation, presumed to constitute tumorigenic initiation, provides irrefutable evidence of exposure and some indication of biologically effective dose to target tissues.
  • (9) What is denied most sharply invariably turns out to be irrefutably true.
  • (10) "What last year's revelations showed us was irrefutable evidence that unencrypted communications on the internet are no longer safe.
  • (11) Clearly this World Cup has elevated this discussion to a level that can no longer be ignored and the facts are irrefutable.” Orsatti said Fifpro wants an “independently managed sideline concussion protocol”, pointing to the growing body of evidence that supports this and the experiences of other sports, in particular the NFL in the US.
  • (12) He asked the Russian authorities to “either release [Sentsov] or try him only for what you can prove irrefutably”.
  • (13) But there is at least a strong argument to make, if not an irrefutable one, that the Swedish government is able to offer precisely the guarantee that both Assange and Ecuadorean authorities have sought in order to enable him immediately to travel to Sweden to face the sex assault allegations against him.
  • (14) The influence of Sydenham's medicine can be seen in the following areas of Locke's philosophy: his "plain historical method"; the emphasis on observation and sensory experience instead of seeking the essence of things; the rejection of hypotheses and principles; the refusal of research into final causes and inner mechanisms; the ideal of irrefutable evidence and skepticism on the possibilities of certainty in science.
  • (15) New statutes concerning brain death imply that irrefutable technical evidence is readily available to diagnose brain death, that brain death is as valid a sign of death as any former criteria, and that in certain situtations brain death must be used to pronounce death.
  • (16) To argue anything else is to make a mockery of the legal system in general and the concept (and irrefutable value) of prisoner rehabilitation in particular.
  • (17) Because, while I could put forward a decent argument on why Duncan Smith is not a great conceiver, I can put forward an irrefutable one that he is a hopeless implementer.
  • (18) The prosecution submitted that the evidence irrefutably proved the case against the accused but the suspects pleaded not guilty, claiming they had been framed by police.
  • (19) The failure of Trigynon cannot be irrefutable ascribed to minocycline as unintended pregnancy also occurs while using OCs without antibiotics.
  • (20) The evidence that mass loss in Greenland and west Antarctica has been accelerating since the early 1990s is irrefutable.

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.