The phrase "irreversible progress" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It means progress that cannot be undone or reversed. Example: The government's implementation of strict environmental policies has led to irreversible progress in improving air quality in the city.
That's irreversible progress".
Their assumption, of irreversible progress in the fully modern and secularised parts of the world, no longer holds.
So too are modern notions of irreversible progress, of secularism, and of obtaining public good through private interest.
"The Netherlands seeks two consecutive positive reports which indicate sustainable and irreversible progress to combat corruption and organized crime," he said.
It wants to turn the story of a grim, inescapable quagmire into one of erratic but irreversible progress towards a resolution acceptable to all.
"I think I'll need to be able to say there's clear progress, and in some places irreversible progress, in the Helmand river valley and hopefully Kandahar," he said.
With the stroke of his presidential pen Obama has ignored and denies the substantial and irreversible racial progress we as a nation have made; with great alacrity, and without any shame, he has embraced the separatists' mission, credo and agenda that dictate blacks should be regarded as and educated differently, and treated differentially, from all other American students.
The condition is irreversible and progresses even when exposure stops.
It appears to be irreversible and progresses rapidly to biliary cirrhosis and liver failure.
Over time, the changes accumulated, became irreversible, and progressed into metaplasia and polyp development (Friis-Hansen et al. 2006).
The concept of the early prodrome is better understood as a point of 'no return', i.e. the 'early prodrome' represents an irreversible process that progresses into the 'late prodrome' (Eaton et al. 1995; Faedda et al. 2015), which in turn evolves into an illness episode (unless treatment interventions interrupt the process).
