And it involves encouraging governors to resist the temptation to irreversibly expand Medicaid.
NATO, and will at least inherit an economy that seems to be irreversibly on a free-market track.
As global warming starts to redraw the physical map, so our experiences of it are irreversibly altered.
The delicate balancing act between national security and civil liberties may be tipping irreversibly in the wrong direction.
The Republicans now, having purged all dissent and irreversibly committed itself to its twin strategies, now cannot maneuver.
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However, in most parts of America, unionised steel is a curiosity, destined, seemingly irreversibly, for the history books.
However, the complexion of the contest changed irreversibly when Cahill brilliantly headed Australia in front from a right-wing cross.
When they do, the differentiated becomes generic, and the responsibility frontier irreversibly expands.
Campaigners at Friday night's public meeting claimed a repository within the Lake District National Park would irreversibly damage its image.
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When done well, it frames the debate and puts the enemy irreversibly in the wrong, and casts a good light on one's own actions.
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In order to increase state revenues a takeover of the private sector will most likely accelerate, irreversibly damaging Venezuela's economy for decades to come.
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"Failure to do so will irreversibly undermine the NSA and its ability to perform in a transformed global information technology arena, " said the Committee.
Local dermatologists say they are seeing more and more patients whose skin has been damaged by years of bleaching - most of the time irreversibly.
Army Chief of Staff Gen Edmund Entacher also warned that changes to the current set-up would lead "irreversibly to a drop in quality, numbers and ability".
It is always possible that the balance which exists in many habitats may be irreversibly damaged by the introduction of organisms which are with new gene combinations.
As Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 warns, ecosystems are approaching tipping points beyond which they will be irreversibly degraded, with long-term consequences for all life on earth, including humans.
According to the Institute, the research is fundamental for the painting's future preservation, with similar artifacts in India and Tibet having been irreversibly damaged by modern cleaning methods.
But if the material is reclassified as a hazardous waste, coal groups say that coal ash would be irreversibly stigmatized and any ancillary use of it would evaporate.
Look beyond the formalities of tariffs and investment agreements, to the nuts and bolts of modern commerce, and you may even conclude that it had become irreversibly integrated.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) said the project could "irreversibly damage" the city's historic docklands and the committee put the city on an "in danger" list in June.
However, services are usually time bound, inseparably delivered by the vendor and received by the purchaser, simultaneously rendered and consumed, irreversibly consumed by the purchaser, and unique in terms of time, place and other surrounding circumstances.
These movements have the potential to enhance not only the well-being of their own people but also to reduce dramatically and possibly irreversibly the threats posed to the West by the communist regimes they seek to replace.
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This letter was signed by over fifty of the Nation's most eminent security policy practitioners, people who have been involved for years in defining and implementing policies of "peace through strength" the CTBT would repudiate and undermine, perhaps irreversibly.
Individuals, political leaders and civil society organizations throughout the region and the world that are overtly sympathetic to the U.S. and its goals of defeating global jihadist forces and democratizing the Middle East will be substantially and perhaps irreversibly weakened.
The persistent disparities between blacks and whites in the U.S. tell one of two possible stories: people of color on balance have considerably less access to resources and chances for advancement, or we are irreversibly inferior to white Americans in intellect and ability.
And yet--if only to insure against catastrophic global climate change that could irreversibly damage the world's human, natural and physical capital--an effective global agreement on mitigation must be achieved and put into force by the time the Kyoto Protocol's implementation period ends in 2012.
In the case of these diseases, the damage seems to be caused irreversibly in the womb, suggesting that any autoantibodies involved are attacking structural molecules rather than messengers (attacks on structural molecules are the cause of multiple sclerosis, though they involve a different part of the immune system).
Worse yet, despite the fact that these chickens namely, the widely anticipated dissipation of threats to U.S. security and interests around the world are a long way from being surely and irreversibly secured, many have gone beyond merely counting the potential benefits of these developments for the Treasury.
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Now, because they've exploded a bomb, because they have a larger nuclear arsenal, they may be seeing the weakness of the Bush White House and they may be much more reluctant to do what the United States wants them to do, which is to give up the nuclear weapons program completely, irreversibly, and verifiably.
For things that clearly do have the springlike quality of shifting irreversibly if pulled (or pushed) too far, like the collapse of ice sheets or the melting of permafrost, a boundary system that seeks to stop you getting too close to the threshold seems as sensible as a safety rail is on a parapet.
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