Although those contributions once made were irrevocable, in the sense that they remained part of the pension trust fund, the plan neither required the company to make specific contributions nor imposed any sanction on it for failing to contribute adequately to the fund.
But now the pro-euro camp argues that not joining is also irrevocable, in the sense that there is a unique window of opportunity to shape Europe's economic infrastructure to the long-term interest of Britain and the rest ofthe continent.
But a sense of irrevocable change pervades the northern Plains.
Although it will take years for a new U.S. Embassy to open, and Trump carefully noted that the borders of Jerusalem would have to be determined through negotiations, there was a strong sense of an irrevocable shift.
Not just because I was short, Jewish and nerdily bespectacled by the time I was 8. No, it was something more enigmatic than that, and even less changeable: Even as an 8-year-old, I sensed the complete and irrevocable impossibility of anyone who rode the D train ever becoming Miss America.
To lose spells complete and irrevocable ruin.... 007 provides, in that sense, the literal enactment of Zarathustra's proclamation that "the devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger and play dice with death".
For anyone who has lived the decline of Cairo over the years and under the increasingly despotic and corrupt Mubarak regime, the sense of loss, of the irrevocable, had become as much a part of the urban fabric of place as it had become a state of mind.
Because Murakami characters feel so little sense of historical continuity, they often make abrupt, irrevocable breaks from their pasts.
Therefore, children suffer irrevocable damage to their mental growth, emotional development, and overall sense of well-being when they are denied the chance at free play.
The sense that the sex abuse scandals are a turning point, a moment of irrevocable change, either personally or for the church at large, was echoed in interviews with dozens of Catholics around the country in recent days.
