As a result, the fortunes of the American people have irreversibly declined and their futures have been mortgaged.
Unless Lackey and Josh Beckett have irreversibly declined, though, the Red Sox still seem deep enough to win it.
As a result, the fortunes of Americans have irreversibly declined and their future has been mortgaged.
The idea of "peak oil" - the year when global annual production of oil reaches its highest point and thereafter declines irreversibly - is now central to the debate about oil as a world energy source.
One day, complexity will grow past a breaking point and development velocity will begin to decline irreversibly, and so the ultimate job of the founder is to push that day off as long as humanly possible.
At this rate, melting will soon cover the entire ice sheet, say researchers, wiping out any further expansion and causing the ice sheet to decline irreversibly.
You don't have to analyse 464,000 songs or think music has been on an irreversibly steep decline since the 1960s to realise that, currently, a lot of pop does sound the same.
LOS ANGELES — When the 10th season of "American Idol" — the first without Simon Cowell — started on Fox three months ago, the handicappers guessed that its ratings would decline 15 to 20 percent, irreversibly tarnishing the top show on television.
Scientists have determined that due to human-caused climate change the Pine Island Glacier "has started a phase of self-sustained retreat and will irreversibly continue its decline".
The biotic features of a cell may be in decline, sometimes irreversibly so.
