I think of him in conjunction with Zhou, the kind of person whom he may never notice but whose life his confounding edicts can irrevocably affect.
However, Syria's potential revolution will irrevocably affect the course of events in the region and along with it, America's core interests in the Middle East including Arab-Israeli peace, the future of Lebanon, the strategic designs of Iran and democracy's future in the region.
For Australia, his words have great relevance as the disaster that has irrevocably affected his life and livelihood started in the back of a big yellow truck right here.
I have spoken to many indigenous people who will be irrevocably affected by the drastic alteration in the flow of the river, the flooding of the land.
Some of them have met David, and some of them haven't, but all have been irrevocably affected by his approach to music, sound, and the community spirit instilled by his parties.
Right now, there are 16,000 children living in New York City's shelters -- kids whose lives are often suddenly and irrevocably affected by the repercussions of poverty, which include domestic violence, obesity, mental health problems and difficulties in school, among many others.
The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community will be in mourning for a long, long time -- and, as a community, we have been irrevocably marked, affected and reminded.
That is why this decision must be made by the British people as a whole, because it will affect us all irrevocably and the Lisbon Treaty can never be amended or repealed by any future government that we elect.
The paradox for time travellers is how their actions in the past will affect the future, a theme explored by Ray Bradbury in the story A Sound of Thunder (1952), in which a time traveller kills a butterfly when journeying back to the time of the dinosaurs only to find his present has been irrevocably altered.
That such power is oligarchic and undemocratic was acknowledged by Abraham Lincoln in his 1861 Inaugural Address: "If the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court," then "the people will have ceased to be their own rulers".
In his 1861 inaugural address, he resumed and sharpened his criticism, saying that the decision meant that the "policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States".
