The confirmed knowledge that a loved one is dead enables the bereaved to begin what Freud called the work of mourning: the slow and painful acknowledgment that the person lost has been removed irrevocably from our world.
The text of the Constitution does not require the act of state doctrine; it does not irrevocably remove from the judiciary the capacity to review the validity of foreign acts of state.
Yaqui threw a couple of stalling hooks to keep him honest, and was moving forward and landing a fizzing straight right as the bell called time on the greatest three minutes of 1980, but somehow the course of the narrative had been irrevocably removed from his gloved fists.
It is an event that will sap his personal credibility, and therefore popular appeal, but it is not enough by itself to remove that credibility entirely and irrevocably.
A national treasure had been lost and, it was claimed, the force required to remove the murals from the walls could have damaged them irrevocably.
"In the face of threats, insolence and arrogance of certain U.S. sectors, which have pressured to remove the preferential tariffs because of the Snowden case, Ecuador tells the world we unilaterally and irrevocably renounce the preferential tariffs," said President Rafael Correa yesterday.
The cumulative effect of thousands of daily public expressions of derision towards Assad binds Syrians irrevocably to the goal of removing him.
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Williams, 31, can say that now, more than nine years removed from the accident that nearly ended his life and irrevocably altered it.
As the film reveals, the atrocities have irrevocably altered lives even one or two generations removed.
When she finally divorced him, he drifted irrevocably off course.
