His work on St Mark, still much read, was to achieve an irrevocable shift in the understanding of the Gospels.
While the midnight blast delivered a swift and irrevocable blow, any definitive understanding of what caused it has been painfully slow.
"It will mean the irrevocable loss of the skills and understanding they will needs as adults, to play their part in the reshaping of their nation and the restoration of stability to the region.
Understand an irrevocable living trust.
The Justice Secretary, Liz Truss, has said "My understanding is that it is irrevocable," while the Brexit Secretary, David Davis, said in December 2016: "Is it irrevocable?
As she sets Hannah on an irrevocable course made all the more horrible by her understanding of what is to come, she provides companions whose decency steadfastly affirm basic human values.
"It was the kind of bullying that most kids who were bullied experienced When you get pushed every day, and when you are ostracized not once, not twice, but years in and out, your perception of reality is distorted These things really do warp your understanding and your perception of humanity in some almost irrevocable way," he said.
I seem to understand that I have lost something irrevocable.
He cast irrevocable doubt on the prevalent theory typified best, perhaps, in John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)—that to use an expression meaningfully is to have in one's mind a standard or a rule for applying it correctly.
Irrevocable changes are underway.
Every brushstroke is irrevocable.
