| 1 | The trend of détente cannot be reversed. | |
| 2 | There was nothing the doctors could do to give me back the use of my legs. The paralysis was complete and irreversible. | |
| 3 | But he said erosion of the U.S. manufacturing base 'is irreversible. | |
| 4 | The idea that changes will be irreversible has consequences for how we should deal with climate change. | |
| 5 | This means that the temperature rise we seethis century will be largely irreversible for the next thousand years. |