irrevocability

• “irrevocability" of the license that each visitor gets does not mean that the author must forevermore offer the license to all visitors.”

  Black Star Rising

• “As for the signature thing, nothing I have heard suggests the pardon had reached the "sealed" stage, which is where I understood irrevocability sets in.”

  Discourse.net: Pardon Update (Updated)

• “The question is, what positive steps can individuals and communities take before climate change becomes distressingly tangible and before we're attuned to its irrevocability?”

  Sanjay Khanna: Tweet From SXSWi '09: "Pessimists Die Quickly" (Gulp)

• “He proceeds to bring up the same arguments always spouted around the irrevocability of CC licences.”

  Archive 2007-11-01

• “Johnson was determined instead to proceed by stealth, partly because he hadnt yet persuaded himself of the irrevocability of the choices he was making, and partly because he wanted to maintain as long as possible the enormous spring and summer 1965 momentum behind his domestic Great Society program.”

  Simon & Schuster: In the Shadow of the Oval Office

• “But there are certain “unrefusable facts” about life, which cannot be demoted to the status of fictions without terrible costs:The reality of the physical world, the inevitability of death, the social nature of man, the irrevocability of historical events and changes—these are facts that we cannot possibly not know, though we can argue infinitely about their significance and how we ought to understand them.”

  Archive 2009-08-01

• “The boy instantly darted off with the shilling, lest Mr. Datchery should repent, but stopped at a safe distance, on the happy chance of his being uneasy in his mind about it, to goad him with a demon dance expressive of its irrevocability.”

  The Mystery of Edwin Drood

• “Mr. Pickwick gave a heavy blow on the table before him, in confirmation of the irrevocability of his intention.”

  The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

• “Because of the priority of the present over the future and the irrevocability of entropic degradation, the opposite is true for the terrestrial shares.”

  Energy and economic myths (historical)

• “The truth is the only thing that makes us free and safe is the free will that allows us to choose our own destiny, in spite of the inherent dangers, and the irrevocability of all our rights to do so.”

  Civil Liberties: What's Your Asking Price?

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