Sentence examples for irreparably lost from inspiring English sources

Yang's works are mentioned in the Wenyan ge shumu (1441; "Catalogue of the Books of the Ming Imperial Library") but were long thought to be irreparably lost.

"Every time a film-maker dies, a singular view of the world and a particular expression of our humanity is irreparably lost to us," said the French film directors' association.

During the 1969 burning, the paintings were assumed to be irreparably lost, but were completely reconstructed using the trateggio technique, a method that uses fine vertical lines to distinguish reconstructed areas from original ones.

Further, the court found that the 17-year-old wrestler might be irreparably harmed if he lost out on athletic-scholarship offers that could result from his competing in wrestling meets.

We fought the war in Iraq at the enormous human cost of American and Iraqi lives, both lost and irreparably damaged, and at the cost of trillions of dollars -- with almost nothing to show for it.

Though he agreed that the applicants made the case that some voters could be irreparably harmed by losing access to their ballots, Stinson wrote in his decision, "It is problematic to change the rules for elections at the last minute through the blunt instrument of judicial intervention".

However, Nelson's right eye had been irreparably damaged and he eventually lost sight in it.

They could be lost or otherwise irreparably damaged with no liability by the company.

Hoving himself had been irreparably damaged by them: he had lost the confidence of many of the trustees, although not of Douglas Dillon, the board's strong-willed chairman, the man who really held the museum together in the embittered last years of Hoving's regime.

There were scores of hours of audio-recordings of Warramiri elders (mostly passed away), so if those tapes were irreparably damaged the information would be lost forever, and in 10 years time, would there even be cassette players available?

It has long been known from animal studies [ 27, 28] that the loss of proteoglycan is reversible while once the collagen is lost, the cartilage is irreparably damaged [ 29].