Sentences with phrase «seems irreversible»

Since not all screening firms belong to the NAPBS, the overall industry rate is less than 10 percent, but that number is certainly an indication that accreditation has reached a tipping point where the trend seems irreversible.

Environmentalists would doubtless cite others — Haiti for example — where environmental destruction seems irreversible,

Environmentalists would doubtless cite others — Haiti for example — where environmental destruction seems irreversible, given the country's means.

Indoctrination often seems irreversible!

For instance, say your profit margins are shrinking slowly but steadily, and the trend seems irreversible.

China once kept its doors closed to outside influences, but today the changes in China seem irreversible.

Not exact matches

Alfie's condition, to many of the medical professionals involved in either country, seems like it may be irreversible even with further treatment.

They often seem to assume that First World, white, middle - class societies are by definition irredeemable; that they are driven by an irreversible logic of oppression and injustice.

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.

And surely it is this kind of attraction, the necessary condition of our unity, which must be linked at its root with the radiations of some ultimate Center (at once transcendent and immanent) of psychic congregation: the same Center as that whose existence, opening for human endeavor a door to the Irreversible, seems indispensable (the supreme condition of the future!)

It might seem like a small thing to some people, but seriously the secondary loss that comes from people not having a single clue how to talk to you is huge, irreversible and some shitty, shitty salt in an already achey wound.

The latest study suggests that ibuprofen seems to pass through the placenta with ease, and wreaks irreversible damage on a female fetus's developing ovaries.

Some changes seem to be irreversible.

But non-CpG methylation seems to happen later, when the neuron is mature — and even after conventional wisdom said it was irreversible.

«It seems to be a circumscribed manifestation of a widespread, older belief that has been labeled «infant determinism,» the idea that a critical period early in development has irreversible consequences for the rest of a child's life,» the researchers wrote in their analysis.

The good news is that these changes do not seem to be permanent or irreversible.

Deep down, we all know that modern superhero movies are operating with even lower dramatic stakes than Star Wars or James Bond movies: beloved characters rarely stay dead after they've been killed, and no plot development, no matter how grave, is irreversible, so there's no possible way that what seems to be happening on the screen could really be happening.

You apply a comic sensibility to subjects that include aging, illness and death and what seems like the irreversible decline of the town of North Bath, New York.

Eye problems can go from seeming relatively minor to irreversible blindness overnight.

Even if the outside temperature seems cool, these animals could be minutes away from death or irreversible organ damage.

By practical necessity we are selective, picking those works of art that are in a vulnerable location, exceptionally valuable, seem to attract undue attention, have condition problems, or where relatively minor damage could be irreversible, such as the stain on the unprimed canvas of our Morris Louis.

Works seem to be in the process of decay or irreversible (perhaps dangerous) change.

One researcher called it a «new state» which seems to be irreversible.

I think we still need to be open to the possibility that natural variability has played a role in the recent warming of the Arctic, but with each year that goes by without a return to the pre-2007 summertime Arctic climatology it seems more likely that the remarkable change that we have witnessed will prove to be irreversible.

I do recognize that a gas can be reversibly expanded and compressed, but it seems to me that merely releasing the gas from a vessel (by, e.g., magically making the vessel disappear) would result in an irreversible expansion.

Vast glaciers in West Antarctica seem to be locked in an irreversible thaw linked to global warming that may push up sea levels for centuries, scientists said on May 12, 2014.

I think we still need to be open to the possibility that natural variability has played a role in the recent warming of the Arctic and that the summer ice could come back, but with each year that goes by without a return to the pre-2007 summertime Arctic climatology it seems a bit more likely that the remarkable change that we have witnessed will prove to be irreversible on a human time scale.

Potsdam also gave the option of 50 % but this seemed highly unlikely given the consequences of exceeding 2 degrees are catastrophic and quite possibly irreversible.