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• r  in an irretrievable manner
  it is irretrievably lost

• In the view of many American troops and officers, the Mahdi Army had splintered irretrievably into a collection of independent operators and criminal gangs.
• Cynthia Rodriguez filed for divorce Monday, with her lawyers claiming that "Alex has emotionally abandoned his wife and children" and that the marriage "is irretrievably broken .
• It wasn't the gentle theorist but the generals of the world who forged emc2 into the most terrible dagger in human history, and hoisted that Damoclean blade irretrievably over our .

News & Articles

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• Murdoch marriage broken down for months: spokesman
  (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's relationship with his wife Wendi had been irretrievably broken for more than six months before he filed for divorce, a spokesman for the News Corp chief executive said on Thursday. Murdoch filed for divorce in New York earlier in the day. He married Wendi Deng in 1999. (Reporting by Liana B. Baker; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• News Corp's Rupert Murdoch files for divorce from wife Wendi
  (Reuters) - News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from his wife Wendi, the company confirmed on Thursday. The reasons for the filing were not immediately clear, though a spokesman for Murdoch said the marriage had been irretrievably broken for more than six months. Murdoch, 82, married the former Wendi Deng, 44, in 1999. The filing comes just days before the split of ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• News Corp's Rupert Murdoch files for divorce from wife
  Rupert Murdoch, News Corp's chief executive, has filed for divorce from his wife Wendi, a spokesman for the company confirmed to CNBC on Thursday. The reasons for the filing were not immediately clear. The company spokesman said the couple's relationship had been irretrievably broken for more than six months before he filed for divorce Thursday.Murdoch married the former Wendi Deng in 1999, less ...
  June 13, 2013 - NBC NEWS

Quotes

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• David Stern in International Herald Tribune
  I'd just say the 'doomsday scenario' is that the NBA is somehow going to be irretrievably damaged by some event or another,Stern said Monday at George Washington University, where Washington Wizards owner Abe Pollin was inducted into the...
• Anthony Kennedy in New York Times
  Even a heinous crime committed by a juvenile,Justice Kennedy concluded, is not "evidence of irretrievably depraved character."
• Malcolm Bruce in This is Nottingham
  Committee chairman Malcolm Bruce said: "Developed countries must accept responsibility if Doha fails. They should now either reinvigorate the process with unilateral moves or draw the process to a close if it is irretrievably moribund. The...