(a.) Not reparable; not capable of being repaired, recovered, regained, or remedied; irretrievable; irremediable; as, an irreparable breach; an irreparable loss.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reasons for enucleation were a choroidal melanoma in two patients and endophthalmitis and irreparable traumatic damage in one patient each.
(2) At operation irreparable fibrotic changes were observed in four patients, but in 15 a pattern of proximal focal obstruction with relatively healthy distal internal carotid vessels was observed.
(3) The fascia lata sling procedure has been used over the past 22 years in our unit for treating recurrent urinary stress incontinence when irreparably poor local support tissues were suspected.
(4) More extensive genetic tests made subsequently (de Serres, 1989a) on the 832 X-ray-induced specific-locus mutations recovered in those experiments showed that unexpected high frequencies of reparable and irreparable ad-3 mutants are actually multiple-locus mutants that have additional, but separate, sites of recessive lethal (RLCL) damage in the immediately adjacent genetic regions (designated ad-3R + RLCL or ad-3IR + RLCL).
(5) Removal of irreparably blocked testes in 10 men led to profound falls in high antisperm antibody titres, with production of two pregnancies.
(6) A playwright and actor has launched legal action against British Airways and London City airport, alleging that they irreparably damaged her £25,000 wheelchair, made her daily life more difficult and caused problems for her business.
(7) The caffeine-induced increase in the number of irreparable DNA damages, attributed to inhibition of double-strand break repair, is in a quantitative correlation with the effect of the cytogenetic damage modification.
(8) A time lag between the release of cytoplasmic enzymes and lysosomal enzymes and other observations made in the present study suggests a sequential order of events in which the release of cytoplasmic enzymes occurs at a stage of reversible damage due to oxygen deprivation, whereas the release of lysosomal enzymes may point at irreparable damage.
(9) "They fear these reforms could cause irreparable and irreversible damage to the NHS."
(10) Newville’s original suit, filed in June, argues that the ban subjects same-sex couples seeking to marry to “an irreparable denial of their constitutional rights” and the state “will incur little to no burden in allowing same-sex couples to marry and in recognizing the lawful marriages of same-sex couples from other jurisdictions on the same terms as different-sex couples”.
(11) Based on the results available in literature, significance of an early detection of female genital tract inflammations caused by Chlamydia trachomatis because of its often asymptomatic flow, irreparable sequels of uncured inflammation and possible curing with tetracyclines and macrolides therapy has been discussed.
(12) These data do not support the routine use of a constrained prosthesis for irreparable rotator cuff tears.
(13) It is clear that the Iraq war did irreparable damage to public confidence in intelligence assessments and policymaking, to the point where it constrained future decision-makers and dealt an enduring moral blow to the global standing of western foreign policies.
(14) Neither BA nor the airport have admitted liability for the parts they and their agents are alleged to have played in what Stevens says is irreparable damage to the chair, which is no longer made.
(15) Business lobby groups anxious to protect the country's lucrative exports of machine tools, cars and chemicals have claimed Germany would suffer "irreparable damage", losing its dominant economic position to China if sanctions escalate.
(16) Irreparable renal damages developed at temperatures between 0 and -3 degrees C.
(17) These irreparable lesions include double-strand scissions and some form(s) of single-strand breaks.
(18) The political impasses and economic shocks in our societies, and the irreparably damaged environment, corroborate the bleakest views of 19th-century critics who condemned modern capitalism as a heartless machinery for economic growth, or the enrichment of the few, which works against such fundamentally human aspirations as stability, community and a better future.
(19) From cell survival curves obtained under euoxic and hypoxic conditions, the RBE for the production of irreparable lethal and potentially lethal damage was derived.
(20) To achieve a ban, Apple's case before the judge must pass a four-part test: it must show "irreparable injury" from the devices' previous sale; that monetary damages are inadequate as compensation; that another remedy is warranted; and that a ban on sale is not against the public interest.
Irretrievable
Definition:
(a.) Not retrievable; irrecoverable; irreparable; as, an irretrievable loss.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anaerobically, lactaldehyde is reduced by an NADH-COUPLED REDUCTASE TO L-1,2-propanediol, which is lost into the medium irretrievably, even when oxygen is subsequently introduced.
(2) To define more clearly a salvageable patient for possible utilization of a left ventricular assist device prior to multiple organ failure and irretrievability during postcardiotomy intra-aortic balloon pumping (IABP), we made prospective and retrospective analyses to determine prognostic indices for survival.
(3) Many ministers believe his position is irretrievable, while others believe Brown may eventually recover if voters look to the future.
(4) In his strongly worded judgement, Wildblood listed the council’s multiple mistakes point by point and warned that the child’s chance of a permanent family had been irretrievably shattered.
(5) Complications in the furture are likely to be progressive sclerosis from irretrievable fragments and knots of the artificial materials and conceivably malignant degeneration of tissues of the scalp.
(6) Inhibitor activity was registered even if sera were not present in cell culture continuously but only 6 hours of preincubation; then their action was irretrievable.
(7) His lack of communication and isolating people and strictly controlling all information has made your party less effective.” Labor MP Nicole Manison said the government was “irretrievable.” “It has been very clear.. that there are some deep problems within the government and they are not going to be fixed, it’s gone too far,” she said.
(8) He said: "The [MoJ] proposals will undermine the position of the independent bar, irretrievably and forever.
(9) He was also dissatisfied with Moody’s role and it quickly became apparent during his talks with Parish that the damage was irretrievable.
(10) Clarity on this point would enable Britain to start making a crucial point to our counterparties: the four freedoms of the single market are neither immutable nor irretrievably interdependent.
(11) In the divorce filing released on Wednesday, Murdoch's lawyers said that the "relationship between husband and wife had broken down irretrievably".
(12) Bruce is understood to have left with a heavy heart but felt his position had become untenable and that his much-soured relationship with Ehab Allam, the vice-chairman, was irretrievable.
(13) With the game seemingly irretrievable, Rodgers sent on Daniel Sturridge at half-time.
(14) Cytoplasm and organelles become entrapped in the upward movement of granules towards the cell apex, become irretrievably isolated, and are sloughed into the crypt lumen.
(15) He said formal consultation with Indigenous leaders, which has not yet begun, ought to have begun months ago, and the relationship between the government and leadership structures in the Kimberley had now “broken down irretrievably”.
(16) Clegg will try to persuade the electorate the party has changed irretrievably, saying: "The past is gone and it isn't coming back.
(17) Surgical therapy has three roles in disseminated atheroembolism: prevention of further atheroembolism with its attendant peripheral or visceral organ damage; amputation or resection of irretrievably damaged tissue; and provision of chronic hemodialysis access.
(18) The UK would be irretrievably damaged and could face separation if the electorate votes to leave the European Union in the referendum planned by David Cameron after next year’s general election, a leading pro-Europe Tory has said.
(19) Thus, it appears that most CTL precursor cells may be lost or irretrievably inactivated in the spleens of late TBH mice.
(20) Carelessness will result in evidence being irretrievably lost.