(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.
Unalterable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) As Nick Bostrom, the head of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and a leading transhumanist thinker puts it, transhumanism "challenges the premise that the human condition is and will remain essentially unalterable".
(2) After suppression of prolactin, statistically signific1nt circadian rhythms in PC and PA have been detected with a moderate decrease of PA concentration, while the PC level remained unalterated.
(3) The following resolutions were adopted:– "That we, a monster meeting of the Orangemen of Newtownards and of the surrounding districts, recognise, with gratitude, the exertions of our brethren in time past, and declare our unalterable determination to stand or fall by the principles of our Order in defence of Her Majesty the Queen and of the British Constitution.
(4) General distrust of genetic methodologies as well as the belief that genic disorders are unalterable appear to be salient factors in explaining the neglect of those areas by social scientists.
(5) Unalterable numerical and alphabetical symbols have been developed to apply a registration number to the animal.
(6) Oxygen consumption is usually considered to be predictable and unalterable at a fixed work intensity.
(7) We conclude that the preliminary diagnosis is frequently sufficiently certain to be unalterable by US.
(8) Who have that hunger for something permanent and unalterable?
(9) Comparison of the spermiograms of unalterably vasectomized men with findings from additional rinsings with physiological saline solution and nitrofurantoin showed that the instillation of the vas deferens leads to a swift, mechanically dependent, emptying of the distal sperm depot.
(10) Most of the toxicity is due to an indirect effect developed with unalterable electrodes in the presence of chlorides in the medium.
(11) He was an open and unsophisticated operator, whose chief characteristic was an unalterable commitment to his cause.
(12) At the beginning of a comprehensive and systematic therapy the panorama X-ray photograph is an unalterable requirement.
(13) If he fails to do this, his features become frozen and unalterable, like the Person, the mask of the classic Greek theatre.
(14) Analysis of the virus specific proteins by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed that the synthesis of G1 was unalterable, and N was stimulated.
(15) Mental retardation is the major unalterable cause for failure to develop independence; some lesser emotional causes can be modified by encouragement.
(16) In this manner, newly found patients can be treated prophylactically before unalterable morbidity or mortality occurs.
(17) Although intrinsic, unalterable defects occur in the aging immune system and nonspecific host defenses, there are factors that physician and patient can concentrate on to reduce the risk of infection.
(18) This review identifies 10 unalterable, 6 conditionally alterable and 9 treatable characteristics which were found to be associated with an elevated risk.
(19) When the dilemma is unalterable, explaining this insoluble conflict-hives phenomenon to the patient will ameliorate symptoms.
(20) R56865 1 microM reduced the increase in resting tension produced by ouabain 300 microM and left unalterated the inotropic effect evoked by ouabain 3 and 300 microM that was reduced by higher concentrations (3 and 6 microM) of R56865.