Sentence examples similar to an irreversible setback from inspiring English sources

The Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 scared away a lot of investors, but Cheng figured it was just a setback on an irreversible journey toward economic liberalization.

"This is an irreversible process".

"That's an irreversible procedure.

Circumcision is an irreversible mutilation.

It's an irreversible situation.

Is this an irreversible feature?

Then came what seemed an irreversible decline.

Nor is secularization an irreversible process.

But does this represent an irreversible trend?

This is not an irreversible trend, however.

"It is an irreversible trend," Guo said.