Of course, once Cole cut this hole in his floor, there was really no turning back.
Lutz believes that once birthrates fall to these levels, there is no turning back.
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"When she says now life has killed the dream I dreamed there's no turning back, " Hathaway says.
MacFARLAND: Well, they - we certainly want them to become more independent in the long run, but there's no turning back for these guys.
On the other hand, once the proverbial cat is out of the bag, there is no turning back, and might sometimes cause unintended consequences.
Once JFK announced to the world that America would be the first nation to put a man on the moon, there was no turning back.
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For me, suddenly it became plain: There was no turning back.
Before I began the journey that ultimately took me to China, I told myself that no matter how difficult it might become, there was no turning back.
The best he can hope for is that the peace talks with the ELN and the FARC both advance to such a stage that there can be no turning back.
"The decision to abolish the agreement on the military air base, Manas, has been made, and there is no turning back from this, " Foreign Minister Kadyrbek Sarbayev told a Kyrgyz news agency.
Now, it seems, there is no turning back.
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And both major German political parties - Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats led by Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier - make clear there is no turning back from a close embrace of Russia.
Because once we make a final, no-turning-back decision, the psychological immune system kicks in.
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Given the choice, would you prefer to make an iron-clad, no-turning-back decision, or one you could back out of if you needed to?
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But as I said the other night at my press conference, I'm a big believer in the idea of persistence -- the idea that when the American people put their mind to something and keep at it, without giving up, without turning back, no obstacle can stand in our way, and no dream is beyond our reach.
For all such soothing words, the French establishment has no intention of turning the global clock back.
Armed with a fake passport and complicated flight itineraries, he had headed for Australia - before losing heart, turning back, and learning no-one had realised he was missing.
Ms. ANGELA KELLEY (National Immigration Forum): You know that horse has left the barn, I can't imagine now turning back the clock and saying oh no, we're just going to increase detention beds, we're just going to increase boots and binoculars at the border and that's going to solve the problem.
They shout "women drivers" and "man she's nuts, she's turning too early" and "ah no, she's coming back out".
There was no official confirmation, but the second Clinton administration plainly is not turning its back on Israeli-Palestinian peace-making, as some had feared and others, hardliners on each side, secretly hope.
Worse, Mr Thurlow says that Mr Kerry's boat fled from the scene after the mine exploded, turning back to go to the aid of the disabled boat only when its captain was certain there was no danger.
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