Sentences with phrase «not irreversible»

The World Commission for cerebral palsy defines it as «permanent, but not irreversible impairment of muscle tone and movement, which is caused by a damage of the evolving nervous system before or during birth or in the first months of life» (Hodapp, 1998).

The IPCC approach, using highly damped deterministic global climate models, is incapable of producing abrupt climate change (beyond the melting of Arctic sea ice, which is not irreversible even on timescales of a decade).

NASA even states that when they lowered the CO2 concentration again, their model reproduced a nice ice cap over the Arctic Ocean, which implies Arctic ice loss is not irreversible — although that conclusion is highly theoretical:

No, it's not irreversible from a thermodynamic point of view, although, in practice, reversing it could be tricky.

It's true we can not restore old growth forests that have been destroyed, but deforestation is not irreversible.

There's a lot of work to be done — but the damage is not irreversible.

However, this is not an irreversible situation.

«The position is not irreversible.

Moldova's European path is not irreversible and Romania's support for the government may ultimately derail its foreign policy agenda.

Our current «safe» position is not irreversible, and there are still balls to be kicked before the season's end.

This perspective is based on the position that the present capitalistic globalization is not inevitable, not uncontrollable, not irreversible.

Yet that inclination is not irreversible...

Finally, the drift to the right of American politics since the late 1960s is not an irreversible law of history.

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.

Nonetheless, Plato is not Paul, and the idea of divine simplicity is not irreversible dogma.

Not exact matches

Because such a transaction would be irreversible and difficult, if not impossible, to trace, observers quickly recognized the hallmark of a scam in which the senders would likely be diverting their funds to the criminals, never to see them again.

If we don't act now, the climate change damage caused to our Great Barrier Reef by 2030 will be irreversible.»

'' [I] n our lifetime and on our watch, substantial areas of the Great Barrier Reef and the surrounding ecosystems are experiencing major long - term damage which may be irreversible unless action is taken now,» the panel writes.

«Payments made with virtual currencies are not only irreversible,» the report continues, «they also do not have the same legal protections as most traditional payment methods, such as the ones you have when using a credit card.»

President Trump vowed that the U.S. won't be «taken advantage of anymore» in trade deals as China's Xi says globalisation is an «irreversible» historic trend.

Pollster Frank Graves of Ekos Research points out that Jean Chrétien's 1993 win wasn't followed by any «post-election swoon,» while Paul Martin after 2004 and Stephen Harper after 2011 suffered declines which, far from being short - term slumps, proved irreversible.

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.»

The transactions are irreversible, i.e. once a transfer is completed, it can not be reversed, which is not the case with a credit card transaction.

But their agenda is to make the economic polarization between creditors and debtors irreversible, ushering in a Dark Age of austerity and deepening debt peonage in which wages, profits and property rents are earmarked to pay interest — on loans that can't be paid in a shrinking economy.

Transactions in cryptocurrency may be irreversible, and, accordingly, losses due to fraudulent or accidental transactions may not be recoverable.

Transactions in digital currency may be irreversible, and, accordingly, losses due to fraudulent or accidental transactions may not be recoverable;

I find myself suspecting, not Moody's regeneration itself, but his belief in its completeness and his assumption that its moral effect is permanent and irreversible.

Clearly the compassion of the courts is going to reach far and wide under the new dispensation, even unto those who can not speak for themselves because they are «in a vegetative state or a permanent and irreversible state of unconsciousness.»

Speaking of India (this applies to others too), poverty alleviation programmes are abounding in print and are propagandized hypocritically by every Party in State Power, the Left not excepted, and the United Front is truly guilty as it loyally, but ironically, follows as «irreversible progress» the I.M.F. commandments.

When faced, for example, with the decision of whether or not to let a seriously ill or irreversible patient succumb voluntarily in terminal situations, we might avoid making the decision now, arguing for the possibility — maybe next week — that a new cure for the patient's condition will be discovered.

The Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act provides that unless a physician can establish that he «reasonably believes» an unborn child is younger than 24 weeks, or, if the child is older, he can establish that continuing the pregnancy will result in either the death of the mother or «the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function,» the physician can not perform a late - term abortion.

The intuition that reality for human beings, and indeed for all living things, is necessarily temporal, with an irreversible distinction between past, present, and future, is difficult to reconcile with the idea, long orthodox in the physics community, that time does not exist for subatomic particles or even for single atoms.

A general and irreversible readjustment of the values of existence: again two indications (this time not in terms of vision but in the field of action) showing our accession, beyond all ideologies and systems, to a different and higher sphere, a new spiritual dimension.

Indeed, to fuse together the human multitude (even taken in its present state of super-compression) without crushing it, it seems essential that there should be a field of attraction at once powerful and irreversible, and such as can not emanate collectively from a simple nebula of reflecting atoms, but which requires as its source a self - subsisting, strongly personalized star.

In the telling of the story, it must be underscored that the vibrant growth of Catholicism is not in tension, never mind conflict, with the Church's irreversible devotion to Christian unity.

For if it be true that the tide of evolutionary totalization sweeping us along requires, for its viability, not only that we must progress towards some form of irreversible unity, but also that this progress must be in the personal sphere, is not this a positive reason for believing that sooner or later something must happen in the world whereby certain basic conditions of the human phenomenon will undergo modification?

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 is through human consciousness, genetically linked to a heavenly body whose days are ultimately numbered, that Evolution proclaims its challenge: either it must be irreversible, or it need not go on at all!

The new culture is not limited to the adoption of a new conceptual framework: the new concepts became dynamic action principles, which have already led to concrete and irreversible transformations in all sectors of social and political life.

If it is true that, bound by the collective interaction of its liberties, the human social group can not escape from certain irreversible laws of evolution, does this mean that, observed along its axis of «greatest complexity» (i.e. increasing liberty) the World is coiling upon itself with as much sureness as it is in other respects radiating outwards and explosively expanding?

Just remember: The first to take on Jesus as a psychologist, though not as a medically trained psychopathologist, was the German scholar and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the greatest critics of Christianity (who ended up suffering an irreversible mental breakdown himself) People do not willingly die for a lie.

But the change of scale is not enough in itself to explain the sudden and irreversible rise of the industrial phenomenon which we see taking place around us.

It is not a case of judging that «a life is not worth living»; the question is whether there is a moral responsibility to continue at all cost the artificial feeding of patients who, in the opinion of physicians, are in an irreversible coma.

We can not admit irreversible sentences in our finite history because in so doing we are usurping a final judgement that God has not entrusted to His creatures.75

Much of Carter's most intelligent analysis concerns the reasons why this move has not yet taken place, or at least why lapses toward imperialism have been episodic and momentary, rather than irreversible.

Whether or not the trend is irreversible, as Schoenherr argues, it has begun to transform the relationship between priests, women religious, the new pastoral administrators, permanent deacons and lay ministers.

The process would be irreversible, because logical necessity is not a characteristic a proposition can lose once it gets it.

Our problem is that the knowledge of good and evil that begins with the forbidden fruit is irreversible; it can not be wished away, and it includes very importantly the knowledge of good and evil in one another, tied to issues of power and shame as well as desire.

Unfortunately, like most water - soluble vitamins, Vitamin B12 is stored in the liver, kidneys & other tissues & a deficiency may not show up for several years, which is a huge concern because after about 7 years of B12 deficiency there can be irreversible brain damage.

The important thing to remember is that velocity change does not always correlate injury or irreversible wear and tear.