Things, that to a lover carry along with them irreversible ruin, carry with them final desolation of heart, are to the vast current of ordinary men, who regard society exclusively from a political centre, less than nothing.
And if we pass behind the decalogue, we find animals included in a sense within God's original and irreversible covenant[514].
The forces of reaction and corruption in these nether lands - greedy managers, venal bureaucrats, and anti-reformists - all seized the opportunity to reverse what was hitherto considered an irreversible trend towards Western standards.
Still, it is often irreversible (like when a sold asset is purposefully under- valued) and pernicious.
Accordingly, the mysterious doctrine of the metempsychosis has held the entire mind, sentiment and civilization of the East, through every period of its history, as with an irreversible spell.
It is the grand irreversible and universal law that we give place and make room for others.
Hitherto we have had to do with fixed, irreversible laws, which are to be implicitly followed in order to render singing as perfect as possible.
But the right way is sure to be found when the irreversible laws of nature, which lie at the foundation of our art, are once recognized.
A unique - and often irreversible - enforcement arm sees to it that respect towards these indispensable institutions is maintained.
It is irreversible because for the first time it generated vested interests not only for a select elite - but also for everyone.
In the massive disillusionment of entire populations who have been taught to worship at their altars can be read history’s irreversible verdict on their value.
With all the ardour of our hearts, we appeal to the leaders of all nations to seize this opportune moment and take irreversible steps to convoke this world meeting.
This would make it the irreversible organic law of each bank's existence that a suspension of specie payments shall produce its civil death.
The sentence of condemnation long since pronounced by the American people upon acts of that character will, I doubt not, continue to prove as salutary in its effects as it is irreversible in its nature.
Their challenge is to take irreversible steps toward democracy.
Descartes therefore made no discovery in pointing out this fact as an irreversible certainty.
He has told us that it was to find a starting-point from which to reason--to find an irreversible certainty.
There he stopped; there in self, in his consciousness, he found at last an irresistible fact, an irreversible certainty.
Solution appeared to be an essentially irreversible phenomenon.
He applies his ideas not only to the phenomena presented by irreversible steels, but also to very different facts; for example, to phosphorescence, certain particularities of which may be interpreted in an analogous manner.
Scarcely had I said so, when groaning he thus returns: "The crowning day is come, the irreversible time of the Dardanian land.
Me, cast out from my country and following the utmost limits of the sea, Fortune the omnipotent and irreversible doom settled in this region; and my mother the Nymph Carmentis' awful warnings and Apollo's divine counsel drove me hither.
His word was law; and, though not irreversible like that of the Medo-Persian, it was never to be questioned by any of his subjects.
The diffusion of two gases at constant pressure and temperature is a good example of an "irreversible process.
Any irreversible change for which a compensating transformation of energy exists represents, therefore, an increase of unavailable energy, which is measurable in terms of entropy.
We express this fact by stating that an irreversible process essentially implies a loss of availability.
We thus have an instance of the property that every irreversible change leaves an indelible imprint somewhere or other on the progress of events in the universe.
Had he been aware in his inmost heart that an irreversible sentence had gone forth against his people, would he have been likely to think either excuses or intercessions availing?
God's word is an irreversible command, fulfilling itself with all the necessity of a law of nature.
Thus the discourse starts with impeachment, and ends with irreversible doom.
It treats treason as no crime and loyalty as no virtue; it contains no guarantees, irreversible or otherwise, against another rebellion by the same parties and on the same grounds.
And all we contend for is, that such a state of things can never be explained on the supposition of absolute predestination or inevitable necessity, founded on the irreversible decrees of Heaven.
