These reflections on the difference in meaning between permanence and irreversibility suggest that "irreversible vegetative state" would be more accurate than "permanent vegetative state".
Mr Barroso says that although these may take time, starting them would help restore confidence in "the solidity and irreversibility" of the single currency.Yet there are two problems.
And Brazil's private sector has decided, however reluctantly, that, though the FTAA would be uncomfortable, that is a price worth paying to get into the United States market.All this adds up to progress, to the point that boosters of the FTAA speak of its "increasing irreversibility".
It just wasn't possible to believe that this was a man genuinely struggling with the ethics of suicide, the irreversibility of action, or free will and determinism.
This plan for a radical shake-up of Venezuela's schools is supposed to ensure the "irreversibility" of Mr Chavez's "Bolivarian revolution", named in homage to the (Venezuelan-born) South American independence leader of the early 19th century.Much of what Mr Lanz says about education reform sounds reasonable.
At his press conference a journalist cheekily asked why it was Mr Draghi's job to ensure the euro's irreversibility.
The generals jokingly tell their guests from Japan that their home country has joined NATO No Actionn, Talking Only"The reforming ministries have already passed or drafted many of the laws needed to tilt the economy towards openness and liberalism, probably to the point of irreversibility.
"Red" bonds over the debt threshold would become especially risky, encouraging discipline without causing outright collapse.Mr Juncker and Mr Tremonti suggested that their plan would "send a clear message to global markets and European citizens of our political commitment to economic and monetary union and the irreversibility of the euro".
The irreversibility and inexorability of the passage of time is borne in on human beings by the fact of death.
Later, when enzymes dissolve the fibrin of the clots, the flow through these areas carries toxic metabolic products to vital organs such as the heart, kidneys, or liver and the ensuing damage leads to irreversibility of shock.
Because a sterilized individual may at some point desire restored fertility, the chief drawback of sterilization as a contraceptive means has been its irreversibility.
