Sentence examples for irrevocable things from inspiring English sources

Wall Street often creates an environment that encourages bad, sometimes irrevocable, things to happen.

Coming into a lot of money at a very young age, Mr. Levchin found himself forced to ponder things like irrevocable trusts and secondary beneficiaries.

"That was the year, my twenty-eighth," she wrote in "Goodbye to All That," the urtext of twenties self-reflection, "when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it".

There are some things in life that are irrevocable...make sure trading free access to your private life to promote someone's business plan isn't one of them.

(It is hard to believe that three pages are, as the book's title suggests, the only thing you will ever need to read about irrevocable trusts, or pre-nups, for that matter).

If she could have sold a bit of land, she might have been able to keep things going, but she says the irrevocable terms of the conservation easements made that practically impossible.

In this, she took the same line as the 17th-century philosopher Francis Bacon, when he wrote that seeking revenge was a foolish exercise in self-destruction: "That which is past is gone, and irrevocable; and wise men have enough to do, with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves, that labor in past matters".

EUROPEANS rather enjoy toying with the idea that our continent is in elegant, irrevocable decline: the temptation of humiliation is a powerful thing.

"In both big and small things, he lives his life according to a preconceived, irrevocable pattern".

"The stories of lost species remind us that things do end, they do die, that we are causing irrevocable and deeply distressing changes – but that the ending's not yet written for the stories of rhinoceros, of hedgehogs, of phytoplankton," said Pearl.

His decision was already irrevocable in a poem he wrote last April, and in many of the things he said to us in the last few months: only now do we realize that.