* Parent companies give the money to their stockholders or find some other irretrievable place to stash it.
You may be asked to produce the credit card if the reservation is irretrievable or to prove identity.
The world's driest continent remains in the grip of its worst drought in at least a century, with eminent scientists now warning of irretrievable loss to the country's wetlands, vegetation and some fish species, not to mention the potential devastating human toll if the hard rain doesn't fall soon.
The failure of the early studios, in most cases, to maintain silent era archives has been described as an "alarming and irretrievable loss" to America's cultural record by officials.
The only defence for Robinho was that he was far from the only City player to have a negligible impact in a match that may have caused irretrievable damage to the club's hopes of reaching the Uefa Cup semi-finals.
They range from "basorexia", which is a sudden urge to kiss someone, and "abhiman", a 3,500-year-old 3,500-year-old 3,500-year-oldde, through the German Sanskritreude (enjoying someone's misfortune), the Polish "żal" (a sense of melancholy for an irretrievable loss), to the Russian "toska", wordh Nabokov exquisitely defored as "a longing with nothing to long for".
So now the question is whether to stay with Classic Original Scent, thereby causing my brain to gradually overwrite my collection of father-related fragrance files, eventually making them irretrievable, or to set it aside and use it only on special occasions.
Hillingdon had plans to send him on a long-term placement outside London, "which could have caused irretrievable damage to his family ties, and particularly his very close relationship with his father".
Librarian of Congress James H Billington said the authoritative three-year study showed the loss "constitutes an alarming and irretrievable loss to our nation's cultural record".
Mostly, we were cheated out of an irretrievable opportunity to break the vicious cycle of poisonous partisanship, which has paralyzed our government for so long, and begin a new era of adult leadership befitting the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes.
