Sentence examples for but irreversible from inspiring English sources

Applying sovereignty, by contrast, would be all but irreversible.

Mercury Rev's mastery of the subtle but irreversible crescendo pushes Dunger toward some wrenching vocal peaks.

In all cases the reduction was found to be diffusion controlled but irreversible.

This makes it much more like West Antarctica, where there is concern that gradual, but irreversible ice loss is underway.

Clearly, our teenager's desire to stay in town signals in some small but irreversible way the splintering of our happy family.

Their letter states: "The habitat loss, combined with the landscape and visual impact on the Gwent Levels and its surroundings, would not only be brutal but irreversible.

Nor will it reverse Russia's steady but irreversible-looking decline as a power of the first rank.

The play was lengthily umped and viewed but stood up — not an injustice but an irreversible little unfairness, a bad joke.

Those measures were lamentable, but not irreversible.

As they descended the slope Ennis felt he was in a slow-motion, but headlong, irreversible fall.

By the mid-1980s, the situation was dire, but not irreversible, with dozens still living in the wild, particularly in Congo.