The protests reflected irreversible changes.

What US lawmakers should do, however, is to help make the decline in violence irreversible.

After all, they are by design irreversible decisions that tie the hands of future governments, which makes them tantamount to constitutional norms.

These countries are, among other things, meant to take irreversible measures to reduce nuclear arsenals with a view to general and complete disarmament.

Unless the international community acted rapidly, intelligently and vigorously, the situation in Western Sahara might become irreversible.

Commitments in this sensitive field must be made irreversible and subject to strict verification.

Governments wishing to promote enterprise competitiveness through OFDI should weigh its potential costs against its benefits to their economies and enterprises, and should then determine appropriate policy approaches.

The nuclear weapon States must reduce their nuclear arsenals irreversibly and diminish the role played by such weapons in their security and defence policies.

Britain s highly centralized political culture has been irreversibly changed.

(b) Review the application of the accelerated procedure for consideration of asylum requests to ensure that applicants have sufficient time to use all available appeal procedures before irreversible action is taken by the authorities

2. Also agrees that reductions of non strategic nuclear weapons should be carried out in a transparent, verifiable and irreversible manner

2. Agrees also that reductions of non strategic nuclear weapons should be carried out in a transparent, verifiable and irreversible manner

And then run?

But there was no real victory for the country s power elite nor was society defeated. The protests reflected irreversible changes.

We've gotten good at predicting and preparing for storms before they take innocent lives and cause irreversible damage, but we still can't do that with water, and here's why.

Flouting of the Rule, especially by irreversible measures such as, as in the present case, the execution of the author's son undermines the protection of Covenant rights through the Optional Protocol.

In fact, Arab societies are engaged in a process of immense and irreversible change in which women are playing a crucial role.

Europe Crosses the Rubicon

Nigeria, however, shares the view of the vast majority of Member States that reduction in deployments and in operational status cannot substitute for irreversible cuts in, and the total elimination of, nuclear weapons.

This may well be the most important result of the Indian election five more years of political stability and economic reform will create an irreversible and virtuous cycle of economic growth and political moderation.

In order to ensure that voluntary repatriation was successful, sustainable and irreversible, the peace and security situation in the countries of origin must improve.

The continued absence of resolute action could easily drive Saudi Arabia toward irreversible decay.

The arrangement made by that instrument set up a state of things intended to be permanent by an act done once for all.

There is no sign of life on Mars.

Because of course, sometimes we do make decisions that have irrevocable and terrible consequences, either for our own or for other people's health and happiness and livelihoods, and in the very worst case scenario, even their lives.

For this reason, the Kingdom of Morocco fully supports the positive conclusions of the 1995 and 2000 review conferences of the Parties to the Non Proliferation Treaty and reaffirms the importance of their implementation by the States Parties, in a transparent, balanced and irreversible manner.

This leads to undesirable effects in host countries, developed and developing alike.

To our south, an irreversible quest for dignity, freedom, democracy, and peace is altering the region s political landscape.

So a perceived failure may cause a massive, perhaps irreversible, loss of confidence in our politicians.

The construction, if it were to be irreversible, would constitute a de facto annexation of a substantial part of the West Bank.

The success of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes in all their aspects is decisive for making a peace process irreversible and for guarding against the risk of the spread of conflict caused by the dispersion of former combatants that have not successfully reintegrated into productive civil society.

Women and children suffer the most severe consequences of conflicts that they themselves do not instigate.

While noting the signing of the Moscow Treaty on 24 May 2002, the States parties stress that reductions in deployments and in operational status cannot substitute for irreversible cuts in, and the total elimination of, nuclear weapons.

Reiterating the responsibility of the nuclear weapon States for transparent, verifiable and irreversible reductions in nuclear weapons leading to nuclear disarmament,

6. Expresses its concern at the slow progress in the talks between the Government of Myanmar and Aung San Suu Kyi, General Secretary of the National League for Democracy, and urges that the increasing development and progress of the confidence building measures ensure the irreversibility of the process towards democracy

Welcoming also the efforts of several States to cooperate in making nuclear disarmament measures irreversible, in particular through the adoption of initiatives on the verification, management and disposition of fissile material declared excess to military purposes,

Any protraction of the process could seriously paralyse the system of international relations, allow current threats and challenges to become irreversible, and lead to a situation in which the international community is unable to take timely and appropriate measures.

The death penalty does this in a permanent (and irrevocable) way.

Reiterating that it is the particular responsibility of the nuclear weapon States for transparent, verifiable and irreversible reductions of nuclear weapons, leading to nuclear disarmament,

The draft resolution had no programme budget implications.

(b) The implementation of reductions in a transparent, verifiable and irreversible manner

If only we could return and be among the believers !

So if only were we to go back , in order to become Muslims !

O that we might return again , and be among the believers ! '

Were there for us a return , we would be of the believers .