Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.

The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically no cost for storage and delivery, to a radically decentralized world-wide market at the click of a mouse, is irreversible.

We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.

One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

Our objectives are socialist. That means an irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people.

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

I say that building peace is like building a cathedral. You have to have a solid base, and then you do it brick by brick. But the process is irreversible. There's no way back.

We have chosen to bring future generations into this world of rising seas and warming temperatures, droughts and floods, heat waves and wildfires, a world in which one in four mammals and one in eight birds are at risk of disappearing forever. While the damage we've done is irreversible, that doesn't give us the right to do nothing.