In 88 he had arranged a general massacre of the Roman and Italian residents in Asia (80,000 are said to have perished), in order that the Greek cities, as his accessories in the crime, should feel irrevocably committed to the struggle against Rome.
In the treaty of 1763, France ceded and guarantied to Great Britain, all Nova Scotia, or Acadie, and Canada, with their dependencies; and it was agreed that the boundaries between the territories of the two nations, in America, should be irrevocably fixed by a line drawn from the source of the Mississippi, through the middle of that river and the lakes Maurepas and Ponchartrain, to the sea.
All discussions of creating a Governors Island Casino should be totally, irrevocably squashed.
Monday's welcome Supreme Court decision, banning sentences of life without parole for juvenile criminals who do not commit murder, recognizes that children mature and should not be irrevocably punished for a childhood act short of killing.
Second, government should change the rules irrevocably and not pay unless and until students complete.
Should the courts have been irrevocably followed on that?
In the altered circumstances in which Europe now finds itself, it is questionable whether Tony Blair should rush to commit the country irrevocably to a monetary arrangement cobbled up in the dying days of the cold war.
Many say record labels should accept that the Internet has irrevocably changed their business and instead offer new services, like chat sessions with artists or early ticket sales for concerts, which they would be willing to pay for.
Mandelson, who backed HS2 when he was business minister, said: "I now fear HS2 could be an expensive mistake … all the parties, especially Labour, should think twice before binding themselves irrevocably to it".
For instance, if it could be proven that positing a plurality of concrete objects (or a plurality of anything, or even a single concrete object) led irrevocably to contradiction, this should turn the tide.
