The mistake would become “irrevocable”, he adds, if a resolution passed in the General Assembly prescribes a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.
Everyone agrees that brain death is death, permanent and irrevocable, but not everyone agrees exactly what brain death looks like, when exactly it happens, and how to test for it.
The joy was not the less — perhaps it was the more complete just then — because of the irrevocable parting; for there was no reproach, no contemptuous wonder to imagine in any eye or from any lips.
All screening self-excuse, which rarely falls quite away while others respect us, forsook him for an instant, and he stood face to face with the first great irrevocable evil he had ever committed.
Decisions to invest in private business of the old-fashioned type were, however, decisions largely irrevocable, not only for the community as a whole, but also for the individual.