Desertification in this narrative is almost irreversible unless superhuman efforts are employed.
Firms did not realise when they shifted operations to low-wage countries that some moves "would be almost irreversible", says Mr Pisano.Many multinationals will continue to build most of their new factories in emerging markets, not to export stuff back home but because that is where demand is growing fastest.
This is not a simple or short-term case of sector rotation, but instead a long-term trend that is almost irreversible.
And let me say, this process is almost irreversible.
The bond within the dimer is almost irreversible, with KD near pM, and an exchange half time of hours [11].
In fact, just like insertions of LINEs and SINEs, transposition of LTR retrotransposons is almost irreversible.
The coordinated synthesis of FS with activin is the main regulator of the local bioactivity of activin, as binding of activin to FS is almost irreversible [ 5, 6].
Decolonization, by contrast, was almost without exception irreversible.
Irreversible fouling was almost removed using a commercial cleaning agent at high shear rate in a short time.
By removing water vapour from the feed, the conversion of toluene to benzaldehyde was almost completely inhibited, and an irreversible deactivation of the catalyst occurred.
