She filed for divorce, describing the marriage as "irrevocably broken," and placed an ad in a local business newspaper in January 2001 serving notice she was seeking divorce.

And in a way, it was not all that different-to find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed.

The treaty would be irrevocably broken and the K'tralli Empire would have to be expelled from the Federation.

Mr. Wright, who had always thought he could fix anything, had by then concluded that his family life was irrevocably broken.

We have irrevocably broken the barrier.

In 2003, Nancy filed for divorce from Benoit, citing the marriage as "irrevocably broken" and alleging "cruel treatment"; she claimed that he would break and throw furniture around.

But with the destruction of the P.O., their ability to connect across time is irrevocably broken.

Michael Curtin, a historian in Oakland, Calif., has traced the shift to the late-18th and early-19th centuries, when he believes the long association between manners and morals was irrevocably broken.

In the divorce papers, Canseco said his marriage was "irrevocably broken."

However, in 2003, she filed for divorce, citing the marriage as "irrevocably broken" and alleging "cruel treatment."