However, given that some marriages break down irretrievably, divorce is, of course, the only recourse.
It is blurred and blotted and irretrievably spoilt by the vindictive reintroduction of the attack upon the licensing trade.
The court has power under several different clauses to turn down the petitioner's decree if it thinks that the marriage has not irretrievably broken down.
They are considered irretrievably ill-formed.
Dismissing earlier work by participant observers as irretrievably biased, they sought ways to justify the continuation of their investigations in a new and less tainted form.
He expresses his own and others' eminently reasonable concern that the word may carry such an emotional and wholly pejorative sense as to be irretrievably lost from the scholarly repertoire.
What we call the past is always already and irretrievably a profoundly altered or attenuated version of the contents that were potentially available to consciousness when that past was present.
Our own identity is intimately, and irretrievably, intertwined with our interpretive stances towards identity in the past, subject and object conflated more than we know or wish.
