"We want to make clear that the enlargement process is irreversible, " a German government source told Reuters after talks between Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin.
The common perspective on manufacturing in the United States is that the flight of jobs overseas represents a growing and irreversible trend, mostly due to lower wage costs abroad and a comparatively inhospitable U.S. economic environment for manufacturers.
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The Bush administration wants what they call a complete irreversible and verifiable nuclear disarmament.
Mel Gibson stars as a daredevil Air Corps pilot in 1939 who volunteers for a cryogenics experiment after his true love (Isabel Glasser) enters a seemingly irreversible coma.
It led to a fundamental and irreversible shift in how ordinary men and women thought of themselves.
Speaking on behalf of the Liberal Democrats, Eluned Parrott AM argued that high streets "are not in a state of irreversible decline".
This is said to be essential because in 2017 global warming becomes "catastrophic and irreversible, " according to a recent report by the International Energy Agency.
So in the middle of a deep recession, that would have been a brutal and irreversible shock to the entire economy and to the future of millions of Americans.
And in the middle of a deep recession, that would have been a brutal, irreversible shock not just to Detroit, not just to the Midwest, but to our entire economy.
"The clearly political intent to fix a final and irreversible end-date for German nuclear energy with such unprecedented haste gives me increasing worry, " Hans-Peter Keitel, head of Germany's BDI business lobby, wrote in an open letter to German business leaders Monday.
We can't afford to have a cut result in irreversible damage to our industrial base.
"The world situation, of which this wall was a symbol, seemed irreversible to many people, " he said.
The concern is that one doesn't want to do anything that's irreversible and then have them in a position where they're not happy.
This is a categorical defeat, irreversible in the short term.
Resolution 1718 also requires the DPRK to abandon its ballistic missile program in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner.
That points to the biggest fear: warming may trigger irreversible changes that transform the earth into a largely uninhabitable environment.
Refusing a stay may visit an irreversible harm on applicants, but granting it will apparently do no permanent injury to respondents.
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Ecologists were angry with the plan, saying it would destroy Lantau as a green lung and cause irreversible damage to the environment.
Since deletion is irreversible, this allows people who mistakenly submitted a request to let us know before their information is deleted.
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The Security Council reiterated its previous demand that North Korea abandon its nuclear weapons program in a "complete, verifiable and irreversible manner" and cease launches.
Annan appealed to all countries to avoid a new arms race and start negotiating irreversible disarmament agreements.
"Antibiotics are losing their effectiveness at a rate that is both alarming and irreversible, " said the Chief Medical Officer for England and Wales, Dame Sally Davies, earlier this month.
The crowning touch was a statue of Aladdin topping a fanciful Opera House that teetered on the irreversible edge of kitsch.
Indeed, Tim Newburn, who follows policing at the London School of Economics, believes the drift towards a single, national police force is now irreversible.
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With every choice you make, there are irreversible implications, and if your choices guide you down a path not suited to your play style, you will suffer for it.
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The center's executive director, Richard Hayes, fears genetic alteration could lead to a race of genetic elites -- or cause irreversible damage to the human race.
They go further and point to, just as one example of their argument, the way in which population rise could lead to a phase change, a chaotic and of unknown outcome, rapid and irreversible change in our environment.
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These are often issued as interim measures pending a full court hearing, on the grounds that a breach of privacy, if it were permitted, would be irreversible.
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That was a situation where going over the deadline and catastrophe might ensue, with irreversible harm.
But she also cautioned them to keep a healthy skepticism about the reforms which, she said, are not irreversible.
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