irreversible effects

In environmental issues, and I do not know if this is true of other areas, such slow progress can have irreversible effects.

Affected children can have serious, irreversible effects or even die within days from birth.

This shows the knock-on effect of a capital increase and its irreversible effects.

In the year 2058, Earth will soon be uninhabitable after the irreversible effects of pollution.

It deals with potential fears for the irreversible effects of judicial activism.

Generally, stunting occurs before the age of 2, with largely irreversible effects.

In the instances of systems which involve tipping points, this may result in irreversible effects.

The irreversible effects on the environment make the danger of GMOs many times greater.

That could well make it more difficult for a judge to choose a remedy that has dramatic, irreversible effects, like breaking up the company."

Various geoengineering schemes have been suggested to reduce the chance of significant and irreversible effects such as Arctic methane release.

We didn't know how it would affect you, but in all our history there have been few cases of irreversible effects, and those were all, uh, psychological."

Such research is considered unethical on humans due to the irreversible effects and damages caused by the lesion and by the ablation of brain tissues.

Category 3 carcinogens or mixtures containing above 1% of a category 3 carcinogens must be labelled with the risk phrase "R40 Possible risks of irreversible effects".

Depending on the stage of reproductive development, interference with hormonal signaling can result in irreversible effects not seen in adults exposed to the same dose for the same length of time.

These developments make it possible to see that the hyphen linking Marxism-Leninism was arbitrary, not an inevitability but one of those extremely important conjunctions in history with enormous but not necessarily irreversible effects.

I voted in favour of this text and am satisfied with the outcome of the vote because cyanide is an extremely toxic chemical that has potentially catastrophic and irreversible effects on the environment and human health.

Ibuprofen, another NSAID, does not have such a long duration effect, with platelet function usually returning within 24 hours, and taking ibuprofen before aspirin sometimes may prevent the irreversible effects of aspirin.

I am quite surprised that our Amendment No 2 was not adopted because this is extremely important as regards toxic chemical substances which persist and accumulate in organisms and which have serious and irreversible effects on health and the environment.

The Petitcodiac Riverkeeper also noted uranium mining's "irreversible effects to the health of ecosystems, watersheds, wildlife, agriculture, recreation, and public health", and joined 30 other environmental groups in asking the provincial government to establish a ban on the act.

When the Board of Control published their second survey in 1961 the use of psychosurgery had declined by more than half; the decline being attributed to an awareness of the risks of irreversible effects and the introduction in 1955 of neuroleptic drugs.

The shortened title seems more obviously appropriate in that its lack of specificity allows it to do double duty in serving as a metaphor symbolizing the irreversible effects of the various life-altering events that occur within the orbits of the main characters.

Only through commitments agreed at international level with the involvement of emerging countries will we succeed in safeguarding the environment from irreversible effects, while at the same time protecting the competitiveness of European businesses from the effects and socio-economic costs of environmental dumping on the world market.

The rapid and irreversible effects of IFN-γ on osteoclast inhibition indicate a dominant effect of this cytokine over RANKL via induction of monocyte differentiation toward the activated macrophage fate, as opposed to the osteoclast fate, when concomitantly administered.

It also shows that the instruments best suited to providing the effective protection of fish species are those which are flexible and reversible, such as TACs and quotas, and not rigid structural measures with irreversible effects such as the destruction of vessels or the retraining of fishermen.