Then, too, many medical students would rather not deal with death and irreversible decline.

New Bridge was platted in 1908, "only after irreversible decline had set in".

American industry appeared to be in an irreversible decline.

But mostly Bradford seemed steeped in a perilous and irreversible decline.

Newspapers are in irreversible decline - but for now I'm still making money out of them.

It leads to an irreversible decline in neurologic function and death.

But the reality is that teen idoldom, like America's high school reading scores, may be on a slow and irreversible decline.

Proclaiming the precise moment that began the magazine's irreversible decline has long been sport.

If it fails to do that, it could go into irreversible decline.

However, by the 1970s the clothing industry was in irreversible decline, facing cheap foreign competition.