Even as the ESPN-N.H.L. talks lead to inexorable changes, the cable company's deal making has moved on.

This restless and perpetual change, as inexorable and unstoppable as the waves and tides, implies a world in which all human actions necessarily have uncertain effects.

The varying historical tides of religion and commerce have made their inexorable changes to the emperor's grand design; he may have deified himself during his lifetime, but his mausoleum has been turned into a cathedral by the deeply Catholic Croats.

Their breaths caught and they lay, still as death, as between them the wall of two decades of loss and hate and inexorable change faded to nothing.

It came to us that most Americans past a certain age have their heartbreak lists of pleasant streets and mellow neighborhoods destroyed by the forces of inexorable change.

Like many readers, she is convinced that the magazine is heralding an inexorable change in managerial culture, driven by presumably unbounded opportunity of an ever-vibrant entrepreneurial economy.

All the manifold terrestrial changes following the one inexorable astronomical change were so complex that no man or woman could comprehend them.

Flesh had made the inexorable change from living tissue to inert matter.

For some of us, the death of Bobby Thomson is another reminder of the preservative powers of baseball-and its inexorable changes as well.

The problem is rooted in inexorable demographic change.