Sentences with phrase «into irreversible»

Forces lurk that perspire to halt production of our Styrofoam peanuts, perhaps plunging this great nation into irreversible chaos and misfortune.

But not until the December expansion, Curse of Osiris, did it feel like the game had entered into an irreversible downward spiral.

Can we estimate the tipping point into irreversible climate change?

This ice sheet is losing mass at a rather larger rate (around 220 cubic kilometres per year) and it will take only another 1 - 2 oC world warming to raise the summer melt zone to the top of the Greenland ice pack after which point, in my understanding, the ice sheet will go into irreversible melt.

Begun as a letter to her grown daughter, who, in 1991, sank into an irreversible coma, Allende's book tells her own exciting life story, a vivid, dynamic account of her parents and grandparents and her childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

Not exact matches

Typically, the scammers trick people into running pernicious code on their computers that encrypts their contents — a process that is often irreversible, except by way of a special cryptographic key or string of digital bits.

Thanks to this thorough and detailed account, we can better understand not just the talent and dedication of the Mad Men - era professionals who sold the Moon to a global public, but also the larger transformation of statecraft into stagecraft, and the enduring and irreversible transformation of the public sphere into an enterprise of image creation, and manipulation.»

Considering your decision irreversible allows you to pour your energy into making your marriage better.

The epigenetic programming established during development is normally quite stable (skin cells do not spontaneously turn into brain cells during adult life), but it is not irreversible.

As 500 BCE marks the central point of the First Axial Period, so the 18th century Enlightenment marks the irreversible threshold of change by which the Second Axial Period brought us into the modern world.

However powerful its impetus in the early stages of the course of biological evolution into which it has thrust itself, the Marxist anthropogenesis, because it rules out the existence of an irreversible Center at its consummation, can neither justify nor sustain its momentum to the end.

Is it not conceivable that Mankind, at the end of its totalization, its folding - in upon itself, may reach a critical level of maturity where, leaving Earth and stars to lapse slowly back into the dwindling mass of primordial energy, it will detach itself from this planet and join the one true, irreversible essence of things, the Omega point?

It would introduce into it a singularity, an irreversible progression, with condensations at its ritical moments, as individual points on a curve.

And yet, the revelation of God's justice has, at least to faith, made an irreversible entrance into our world.

This harm consists in the irreversible scrambling of three things: genealogies, by substituting «parenting» for fatherhood and motherhood; the status of the child, who would go from being a subject to being an object to which others have a right; and sexual identity, which rather than being a natural given would have to give way to orientation as an individual expression, in the name of the struggle against inequality, perverted into the elimination of differences.

This harm consists in the irreversible scrambling of three things: genealogies, by substituting «parenting» for fatherhood and motherhood; the status of the child, who would go from being a subject to being an object to which others have a right; and sexual identity as a natural given, which would have to give way to orientation as an individual expression, in the name of the struggle against inequality, perverted into the elimination of differences.

Ultimately, we learned that, when Sarah's head snapped back in her fall, the whiplash caused a tear (dissection) of her vertebral artery, which cut off the blood to her brain, causing her to go into cardiac arrest and resulting in irreversible brain damage.

A spokesman insisted the settlement agreed last week has «legal force» and described it as «an irreversible international law decision that requires the European Court of Justice to take it into account».

Researchers also point to irreversible cultural and social impacts that could exceed monetary loss as a topic that should infuse climate negotiations this year and into the Paris talks in 2015.

Deforestation of the Amazon is about to reach a threshold beyond which the region's tropical rainforest may undergo irreversible changes that transform the landscape into degraded savanna with sparse shrubby plant cover and low biodiversity.

It is also clear that ecological tipping points can be crossed if we push this process too far, with potentially irreversible consequences as overgrazed grassland tips into desert, or as degraded tropical forest dries out and burns over vast areas of Indonesia and Brazil.

The team stresses that even a little warming could cause irreversible melting of ice sheets and turn dense Amazon forests into dry savannah grassland.

Thompson and Lengyel are looking into the possibility of using the presence of HAP as an early warning signal for AMD risk with a hope that this will aid early intervention before patients have suffered irreversible vision loss.

Insofar as pastoralism is achieved, it is at the expense of the environment, bringing the fauna, flora and land into a state of progressive and sometimes irreversible deterioration.

Once a retrovirus has infected an organism, it commandeers that organism's genetic machinery, turning a once - healthy cell into a retroviral powerhouse that spreads the infection to more cells in an irreversible cascade.

Normally, the genetic switches that control the transformation of an embryo into a larva or a larva into a polyp are switched on in an order that is irreversible, «but Turritopsis cells can hit the rewind button,» Piraino explained.

Summary: When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible, total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe, protected life or to summon the courage through playing football to step back into the world.

Official Premise: 23 BLAST When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible, total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe, protected life or to summon the courage through playing football to step back into the world.

Debie's credits include Enter the Void, Irreversible, and Spring Breakers, so you know he's more than capable of taking the odd ideas of his directors and turning them into beautiful images.

So begins this cinematic descent into squalor, brutality, and debasement from the cheery European nexus that gave us Man Bites Dog, Funny Games, and the stylish nightmare Irreversible.

One is jailed, and the other is lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast, which comes with irreversible consequences.

With the combination of audience antipathy towards «Alien 3,» the disappointing box - office grosses (though it still made plenty of money throughout the world) and the fact that the main character had just committed a spectacular and seemingly irreversible suicide in the previous film, most people assumed that the «Alien» saga was as dead as Ripley and were therefore surprised a few years later to learn that not only was a fourth film, «Alien Resurrection,» going into production, it would even star Weaver.

The ninth novel to feature famous writer Nathan Zuckerman finds Roth's alter ego in the «winter» of his life; this is a beautifully conceived tale of acceptance of one's irreversible descent into oblivion.

Following the death - inducing injection, your pet will immediately go into a quiet and irreversible deep unconsciousness.

You should, as permitting your pet to tip the scales into the obese range is just one form of neglect animals face that can have potential irreversible health problems.

It involves an irreversible surgical removal of the claw and the area that it retracts into.

Sorbitol within the lens unfortunately draws water into the lens, causing an irreversible cataract in each eye.

«Annual testing is important because the time from infection to adult worms is roughly months, meaning some pets may have been infected with juvenile worms that did not originally result in a positive test but have since matured into adult worms that are doing irreversible damage.»

Buenos Aires — based artist and designer Alexandra Kehayoglou uses hand - tufted wool rugs to draw into focus landscapes under threat of irreversible change.

But it's important to emphasize that if southwest North America moves into a dust bowl by mid-century or later (PNAS Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions, http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/01/28/0812721106.full.pdf+html), there will be suffering closer to home, even for people on other parts of the continent.

In the report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's top scientists warned that global warming is unequivocally man - made and will become irreversible if we do not act now to reduce the amount of carbon emissions released into the atmosphere.

«Legally, it is significant for its ruling that once «serious and irreversible harm» is found and the Tribunal moves into a consideration of appropriate remedy, the Tribunal will step into the Director's shoes to fashion an appropriate remedy,» wrote Jack Coop et al in June, in an analysis of the decision for Osler, a law firm.

While forecasting the state of the environment more than 80 years into the future is a notoriously inexact exercise, academics gathered by the the United Nations at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are concerned the world is headed for «extensive» species extinctions, serious crop damage and irreversible increases in sea levels even before Trump started to unpick the fight against global warming.

Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason to postpone such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost - effective in order to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost.

Otherwise, in due course, irreversible tipping points cascade into an abyss so deep that there's no way out.

The spewing of 110 million tonnes a day of heat - trapping pollution into the atmosphere — as if the atmosphere were an open sewer — is «increasing the likelihood,» says a warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, «of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems».

(IPS)-- Packed into stifling meeting rooms in the Peruvian capital, delegates from 195 countries are trying to find a path that would make it possible for the planet to reach climate neutrality in the second half of this century — the only way to avoid irreversible damage, scientists warn.

Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost - effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost (UN 1992a: Art 3, emphasis added).

«Stephen Hawking says Donald Trump could turn Earth into planet like Venus with 250C and sulphuric acid rain... We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible... I don't think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our natural planet»

Ah yes, it's always a good idea to squeeze «abrupt and irreversible» into alarmist reports on climate change.