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Examples
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"Irretrievable damage has been done to the country's reputation," said Norris Pritam, an Indian journalist who has covered many Olympics and Asian Games.
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Wedding day promises lost all meaning when the newly-coined standard — Irretrievable Breakdown — replaced former ‘grounds’ for divorce.
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Irretrievable disaster had overtaken Carleton's column.
Sir John French Chisholm, Cecil 1915
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Irretrievable misfortune and National disgrace never to be forgotten are to be added to the ruin of all peaceful pursuits and National bankruptcy as the result of Lincoln's running the machine for five months.
The Southerner A Romance of the Real Lincoln Thomas Dixon 1905
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Irretrievable damage must have resulted from this edict, but fortunately it was disobeyed in Rome and ignored elsewhere.
Donatello, by Lord Balcarres David Lindsay Crawford 1905
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Irretrievable mistakes may be made by too long a gamble with the chances of political warfare.
The Framework of Home Rule Erskine Childers 1896
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Irretrievable, his yielding and his shame; irrecoverable, the conscious rectitude bartered so cheaply.
A Life's Morning George Gissing 1880
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Now, the Irrecoverable and Irretrievable Humiliations that have lately befallen the _Turkish Power_, are but so many
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Irretrievable breakdown of marriage is no ground for divorce for those married under the Hindu Marriage Act because the law does not recognise it, the Supreme Court has ruled.
India eNews 2009
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The divorces granted on "Irretrievable Breakdown of marriage" were those demanded by wives while the one recently rejected was demanded by husband.
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