How To Use Permanence In A Sentence

Japanese the type of permanence up to a generation ago, when he suddenly awoke and startled the world with a rejuvenescence the like of which the world had never seen before. The Yellow Peril
The last and the real cause of their impenitence is the state of sin which they freely chose as their portion on earth and in which they passed, unconverted, into the next life and into that state of permanence (status termini) by nature due to rational creatures, and to an unchangeable attitude of mind. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
Their greatness can perhaps be best measured in terms of their permanence.
Whether discussing Lao Zhi from the East or Plato from the West, the ultimate layer of human reasoning seems to always hint at the balance and permanence of the universe.
Now, it might seem strange that on the most subjective and transient mass medium ever invented, the criteria for "notability" should be objectivity and permanence. Glenn Kurtz: Unremarkable

The permanence of images produced by the system are comparable to those produced by electrophotography.
Their presence provided the basis for population permanence, and matrilocal or uxorilocal residence patterns featured strongly in shaping the contours of settlement. Gutenber-e Help Page
For Zen, however, this need for permanence fossilizes what is both beautiful and sacred.
Theravada, which I practice, is what I know best, and it seems to me that two fundamental concepts within Theravada that really couldn’t be smoothly reconciled with Hinduism without just sort of practicing two different things at the same time are anatta, or not-self, and anicca, impermanence. Another religious assault on education - The Panda's Thumb
Does your "permanence" remark indicate a form of prenatal adoptionism or ensoulment, as you seem to prefer? Jesus the Mystic in the Gospel of John
To that one in the solution of which the latter could do nothing but commit paralogisms (namely, that of immortality), because it could not lay hold of the character of permanence, by which to complete the psychological conception of an ultimate subject necessarily ascribed to the soul in self-consciousness, so as to make it the real conception of a substance, a character which practical reason furnishes by the postulate of a duration required for accordance with the moral law in the summum bonum, which is the whole end of practical reason. The Critique of Practical Reason
Anything which threatens the permanence of the treaty is a threat to peace.
The spoken word is immediate but lacks permanence.
Yet vast reserves of potential support awaited any regime that could achieve that stability, and that permanence.
Nowhere shall there be rest or permanence; all things shall be in fluctuation until He comes who, as the rightful Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Not all coaches would have favoured the permanence of class over the transitory nature of form. Times, Sunday Times
Europa achieves ecstatic permanence in phosphorescence, which originates only due to light from another source, just as myth propagates itself: by tapping into innate human eros.
Our distorted view of reality is countered by thinking about aspects of wisdom, such as impermanence, the nature of suffering, selflessness, and the peace that is liberation. Shantideva's Compendium of Precepts (Laptu) and A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Chod-j
There is something beautifully reassuring about the presence of an antique grandfather clock in a home; it makes a statement about permanence and comfort that's hard to beat.
And it's the bodily imperfections and decay which lead us to desire a permanence of the human essence.
Print media is tactile, has more of a sense of permanence, and is distributable without dependence on technology or a connected society.
The fundamental teaching of the Buddha is the four dharma seals: impermanence, no-self, suffering and nirvana, or peace.
Ultimately, it's an exquisite meditation on the transience of life and the sustaining illusions of permanence, including, most destructively of all, love.
It is time to apply the idea of impermanence instead of clinging to the notion of authenticity in a world best described by contamination and flux. Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from Beirut
We do not like a periodical change in the first magistrate; and we like quite as little a periodical permanence in the political officers immediately under the chief magistrate; we are, in short, wedded to our own forms, and therefore opposed by judgment to forms differing from our own. North America
It is likely, therefore, that the poet's solution to this cultural para - dox was the juxtaposition of his favorite images in the context of an amorphous structure: gold representing the permanence of the state of pure being; light repre - senting the incandescent moment of victory when the hero became a presence, its occurrence a metaphor for the process of heroization, and its visible behavior mysterious and of short duration. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
An entryway of brick steps adds warmth and character and helps to project a sense of quality and permanence.
Nothing threatens the permanence of the system.
In the first place, Handy attributes more permanence to the professional core than actually exists.
The backdrop of stars was perceived as representing God in its permanence and immutability; only the sublunar sphere encircling the earth was subject to change and decay.
In a later essay in 1980, I noted the major role of fortuity in civil rights gains and why those gains tended to be fleeting even when enunciated in terms of permanence.
Beneath the allegedly young idealism of Occupy Wall Street are very cobwebbed assumptions about societal permanence. Notable & Quotable
But now the maidless four-room apartment took on, in spite of its cumbersome furnishings, a certain air of impermanence. Gigolo
Their greatness can perhaps be best measured in terms of their permanence.
He was convinced of the impermanence of his work.
It was this semipermanence that made them different from militia. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
The documentary advertisements that the draftsman of the Act had in mind would have had some quality of permanence.
But that's politics-as soon as the writ is dropped, girlfriends become fiancées for the duration, to lend that air of maturity and permanence.
They also stress the permanence of the mechanisms or structures for incorporation. Politics, Planning and the State
One volume will be clad in terra cotta, conveying permanence and protection, while the other will be clad in glass, symbolizing a more subtle message of impermanence and fragility. Jewish American Museum « DESIGNPHILADELPHIA
His interest in gray is metaphysical as well as visual, for he cultivates ambiguity, indirection, and impermanence.
I exist, ising a miracle of permanence of so - called life.
More difficult to handle than the immediate grief is the permanence of loss that sets in later.
When so ground, it forms the stable and magnificent colour, _genuine_ ultramarine, which is the finest and purest blue on the artist's palette, but owing to its extremely high price its use is not in very great demand, especially as many excellent chemical substitutes of equal permanence are obtainable at little cost. The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
On the part of sin, there are two things which may withdraw man therefrom: one is the inordinateness and shamefulness of the act, the consideration of which is wont to arouse man to repentance for the sin he has committed, and against this there is "impenitence," not as denoting permanence in sin until death, in which sense it was taken above (for thus it would not be a special sin, but a circumstance of sin), but as denoting the purpose of not repenting. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
This is pain, he says in the First Noble Truth, where “this” refers to the entire phenomenal field of perception, to all worldly experience, which is characterized by impermanence and some form of suffering or duhkha duh, “bad”; kah, “hole.” Turning The Wheel
They wear ornaments of human bone, which remind us of death, impermanence and renunciation, and as adornment, they wear ashes from cremation grounds.
The acquired any reason to ask you, have a permanence is only a short do.
You cannot trust the permanence of geography in a world on the move. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
There would be such a voluntary inpouring of funds that all financial problems would disappear and this work could be extended and carried on with greater efficiency and its permanence relieved of any doubt.
The former includes meditations on the precious human existence, impermanence, the defects of sasra, the workings of karma and the need for a spiritual guide or guru.
Such permanence makes local journalists more aware of the power of print.
Men like Luke Hunter didn't know the meaning of permanence - or fidelity.
The weight, ductility and imperishability of gold, for example, have underpinned its status as a substance of beauty, value and permanence since antiquity. Periodic Table Talk
Stone steps, stairways, benches and gate posts can all add a feeling of permanence to a garden.
Such a sense of permanence, of an unbroken link to the past, is one of the lures of islands.
Impermanence reigns in Atlanta, where white tents dot the landscape like so many mushrooms on the forest floor.
It seems that certain connoisseurs were not averse to engineering breakages so that precious vessels could be mended in this way, and beyond the sinuous lines — some exquisitely fine, occasionally spidery and nervous, others unctuous, broad, plump, and fluid — the volatile elements of chance and happenstance, in other words the randomness of these sudden breakages, lends to this art its clever brinkmanship with the big twin concepts of time and impermanence. Archive 2009-07-01
Everything is in a never-ending state of flux, oscillating between life and death, mocking our every attempt at permanence.
The singing and laughing is louder than ever, as if the volume of our voices has a way of creating permanence.
But in today's secular society, Mr. Davies says, such an awareness no longer exists: The young, ignorant of history, enjoy a false sense of permanence, while our historians are too specialized to appreciate the ultimately fleeting nature of all that man contrives. Sovereignty and the Pitiless Passage of Time
For what is lost personally now and then, far more of greater mutual value is obtained; and it is largely by a habit of companionableness that the happiness of the home can be made so satisfying that there can arise no question of its permanence. The Etiquette of To-day
He said: 'What appeals to me about having my remains in this long barrow is the permanence of the structure and the landscape. Times, Sunday Times
All of this is characterized by redundant aspects of stability, permanence and continuity.
The eternal buttresses of the hills stand to the eyes of the fleeting generations as emblems of permanence, and yet winter storms and summer heats, and the slow processes of decay which we call the gnawing of time, are ever working upon them, and changing their forms, and at last they shall pass. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
They are tactile, beautiful, connect us with the geology of our earth and their presence gives a garden a sense of permanence and weight. Times, Sunday Times
Change, impermanence is characteristic of life.
The feelings of solidity and permanence are illusory, for nothing is truly solid and permanent in this life.
But the room has an elegance and a permanence that derive from the many decisions she and Shutler made along the way. A riverfront retreat, built with the long view
The backdrop of stars was perceived as representing God in its permanence and immutability; only the sublunar sphere encircling the earth was subject to change and decay.
The method of cold work hardening is applied to increase the permanence limit and to decrease the compressive stress of groove and little round angle of turn angle on mechanic components.
They also stress the permanence of the mechanisms or structures for incorporation. Politics, Planning and the State
There was a sense of permanence in my mind, and as the morning spread out I was aware of the opportunity for making a new start.
A loving family environment gives children that sense of stability and permanence which they need.
Tokugawa period, the idea of fickleness would not have occurred to us; on the contrary, the dominant impression would have been that of the permanence and fixity of her life and customs. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
Stone steps, stairways, benches and gate posts can all add a feeling of permanence to a garden.
Security, stability and permanence would be best achieved through adoption.
Ciba has just introduced a UV absorber for powder coatings designed to offer "an ideal melting point, high photo-permanence and excellent thermostability. Purchasing - Top Stories
It all evokes the impermanence of memory and the capacity of photography not so much to capture the fleeting moment, but to embalm it. ArtScene: This Week's Top Exhibitions in the Western U.S. (August 17-21, 2010)
We have to struggle in order to realize the permanence condition.
They are tactile, beautiful, connect us with the geology of our earth and their presence gives a garden a sense of permanence and weight. Times, Sunday Times
Community groups are right to complain about the Ontario Municipal Board and the way it pre-empts the land-use decisions of municipal councils while destroying the relative permanence of Official Plans.
This early socialization process is important because it recognizes that the nurse extern is a team member and provides a sense of permanence.
Outlet, scribbled Goldberg in the margin, folly of belief in permanence.
They are unreadable inscriptions, and as such convey the permanence and provisionality of all inscription.
The yucca family provides good plants for giving an effect of weight and permanence near a terrace. The Education of a Gardener
In the psyche of the second and third generation Tibetans, there is no real sense of permanence.
With diligent and continuous practice, this formal processing of all our mental and physical experiences leads to progressively deeper insights into the essential characteristics of all things: impermanence, infelicity and unsubstantiality.
The first of these 'marks' or 'characteristics' is anicca or impermanence. ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
Thereupon the Wazir prostrated himself before the King and wished him permanence of prosperity, saying, Allah prolong thy days and thy rank upraise! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
There is something in a furtive glance of eyes on the subway, or from the passing crowd that does not tend to permanence.
It's fun to work on something that has some permanence, something that could outlast me.
Recent research has covered restoration of degraded soils using mycorrhizae, the characterization of savannah-forest vegetation, auto-ecology of vegetative species, wildfire effects on floral permanence and composition and atmosphere-biosphere interactions. Canaima National Park, Venezuela
They can't expect perfection or permanence, and they must bow to universal usage.
And she was spirit, first and always spirit, etherealized essence of life, calm as her calm eyes, and sure of permanence in the changing order of the universe. Chapter 28
The harmonious combination of diagonals, verticals, and horizontals produces an effect of solidity and permanence.
Women who are ambivalent about the permanence of the procedure should be counseled to strongly consider another contraceptive method.
You can feel the power and permanence of nature in places like that. Times, Sunday Times
A great path not only offers access, it helps form the garden's structural backbone and creates a feeling of permanence.
There's also the bittersweetness of experiencing time passing and the impermanence of our lives. Rachael Freed: Legacy Writing: The Urge To Preserve
This is a place where traditions run deep, and where the long shadow of Ben Nevis seems to add a sense of permanence to the town.
Not all coaches would have favoured the permanence of class over the transitory nature of form. Times, Sunday Times
Neither formation provides ledges of any size or permanence, although small auk populations once nested on the chalk cliffs.
The acquired any reason to ask you, have a permanence is only a short do.
Wherever they settled in America, besides the common schools, they turned their attention to high schools or academies, and to colleges, to educate men for all the departments of life, carrying in their emigration, the deep conviction, that without sound and extensive education, there could be no permanence in religious or civil institutions, or any pure and undebased enjoyments of domestic life. Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers
The process was continuous and evolutionary; nothing in Moira's domain was guaranteed permanence. AN OLDER WOMAN
It transports the viewer into that perspective of Buddhist permanent impermanence, which is perhaps a kind of definition for photography itself. New Haven Independent
Impermanence reigns in Atlanta, where white tents dot the landscape like so many mushrooms on the forest floor.
The bureaucracy in Washington isn't always the nightmare it's portrayed to be, but federal employees have the luxury of semipermanence, while agency secretaries come and go. Paulson's Big Leap
Although many buildings are no longer made of wood which is too expensive and hard to maintain, Japanese cities still look a little jerry-built, rather like movie sets, as though in anticipation of impermanence—less like Manhattan, more like Los Angeles. Japan's Shattered Mirror
Buddhist Lamas of Drepung Loseling Monastery have a festival for the (impermanence) where they paint a picture with colorful sand, they take Millions of grains of sand and painstakingly laid into place on a flat platform over a period of days or weeks. to create mystic and exquisite most unique painting, this art is called (dul-tson-kyil-khor) which literally means "Mandala", Truth in religions
I, too, am firmly committed to the permanence of marriage and always work toward following the biblical position. Christianity Today
So, for example, the category of substance is interpreted in terms of permanence.
But even for those who aren't particularly attached to plastic discs (or liner notes, or cover art, or lyric sheets), the impermanence is still problematic. Boing Boing: January 27, 2002 - February 2, 2002 Archives
He said: 'What appeals to me about having my remains in this long barrow is the permanence of the structure and the landscape. Times, Sunday Times
The acquired any reason to ask you, have a permanence is only a short do.
When an evil attains this extent, he is a poor citizen, a poor cowardly dallier with opinions, whatever his fighting mark may be, who can make up his mind to calmly acquiesce in establishing its permanence, or to stiffly oppose every movement and every suggestion tending in the least towards its abrogation. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
The establishment of a social system in which a section of the population is defined as the underling and another as the master is itself an act of violence - an act of violence which can only acquire permanence by the continuing use of violence. STATEMENT AT THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE, GENEVA, JUNE 19, 1986(1)
His philosophy stressed the impermanence of the world.
They are forming character and _character tends to permanence_. The Gospel of the Hereafter
They gradually perfected the process of drying the grass to fix the image with some degree of permanence.
The most striking example is the enfranchisement of 10,000 by Sulla, who according to custom took his name Cornelius, and, though destined to be a kind of military guarantee for the permanence of the Sullan institutions, only became Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero
Fame and interest are impermanent and varying. Impermanence is the source of suffering.
The conservative philosopher, George Santayana, addressed the danger of the lack of em>retentiveness in response to what Leon Edel, Henry James's biographer, referred to as ‘America's cult of impermanence’.
This gave her strength and a feeling of permanence, continuity and contentment with her home.
All of this is characterized by redundant aspects of stability, permanence and continuity.
Now, however, it destroys this extraneous alien negative, affirms and sets itself up as a negative in the element of permanence , and thereby becomes for itself a self-existent being.
Sennett's hinge idea functions as a foil to one that Saskia Sassen touches upon in her introductory essay, but leaves frustratingly unexplored: that a city's physicality, its buildings, are its attempt at permanence. Todd Reisz: Making Sense of the City
The difference is one of volume and permanence in the rival satisfactions, and the attitude conscience will assume toward these depends more on the representability of the demands compared than on their original vehemence or ultimate results. The Life of Reason
Billy Crystal, in his brief return to the spotlight last night, reminds us of the fragility of our generation's audacious belief in the indisputability of our permanence. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Anything which threatens the permanence of the treaty is a threat to peace.
The exceptional audio and video quality and the permanence of the medium are things we really like.
It speaks to the way life comes and goes, with its beauties and tragedies, through its balletic recording of transience and impermanence.
This is pain, he says in the First Noble Truth, where “this” refers to the entire phenomenal field of perception, to all worldly experience, which is characterized by impermanence and some form of suffering or duhkha duh, “bad”; kah, “hole.” Turning The Wheel
And my grandmother was a relentless lecturer on impermanence.
Even our joys, in their temporality, remind us of impermanence.
What is especially interesting is the resonance with today, especially the comparison between the permanence of the civil service and the transience of almost anything else.
Field boundaries scratched into the soil are an especially elusive nonnarrative way of remembering shared experience, and their impermanence and vulnerability to covert adjustment (especially in sandy soils) render them not only highly unstable as memories but also readily available as weapons of social exclusion in times of shortage or distress. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
You cannot trust the permanence of geography in a world on the move. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
The familiar, unaltering streetscape induces a comforting feeling of permanence. Times, Sunday Times
She represents the permanence of an eternal Britain in an ancestral rivalry in which mutual admiration has always matched enmity. Times, Sunday Times
In particular, the regime demands formal U.S. and international recognition of the permanence of the borders under its control.
But the evidence was at hand to show that the pasha himself, finding the islanders no less difficult to control for all the concessions made them, had been obliged in the interest of his own quiet and permanence in government to turn the restlessness of the Cretans into sectional conflicts during which they left him in peaceful possession of his pashalik. The Autobiography of a Journalist
The long term permanence of the change is perhaps more interesting.
In his early work, geographer Joel Bonnemaison stressed place and permanence over mobility, but later, it is the image of reticulated space, or networks that feature prominently.
There is something beautifully reassuring about the presence of an antique grandfather clock in a home; it makes a statement about permanence and comfort that's hard to beat.
But with every political advantage the Dual system, of which the permanence is not as yet at all secure, might have proved as undurable as Grattan's Constitution of 1782 but for one circumstance, to which I have already directed attention. England's Case Against Home Rule
The person was cohabiting with the mother of the child in a relationship of some permanence at the time of the birth of the child.
This gave her strength and a feeling of permanence, continuity and contentment with her home.
Other Italians admired the quality of permanence which printing gave to literature in general.
For all the apparent permanence, within a protracted, geological time-scale, sandstone is in fact quite quick to change.
Further to the notion of giving account of ourselves, of indexing as David Altjmed's recent show undertakes, Carreiro examines the idea of impermanence, the delicacy and to use a Lisa Robertson term "lastingness" of text, and literally of letters themselves. Archive 2007-12-01
As the area surrounding L.A. began its inevitable encroachment on the contiguous farmland, it took longer and longer for the farmers to drive in, and the old Farmers Market grew into a state of semipermanence. I Am Not A Psychic!
Ringo does some serious six-gun violence to some bad guys while remarking, the sound of the Gion Shoja temple bells echoes the impermanence of all things; the color of the sala flowers reveals the truth that to florish is to fall. Reviews Too Late: Sukiyaki Western Django
Community groups are right to complain about the Ontario Municipal Board and the way it pre-empts the land-use decisions of municipal councils while destroying the relative permanence of Official Plans.
The assumed permanence of a print is in this context also eroded - the stencils are often painted over by concerned city councils within days and sometimes hours.
Sigh over the " impermanence of life, time waits for no man!
According to the revelation of man's complex vision this hyper-physical, hyper-psychic "something," which is the concrete centre of will and consciousness and energy, is also the invisible core or base of what we term personality, and, without its real existence, personality can have no permanence. The Complex Vision
Playing peek-a-boo with toys helps teach infants about object permanence - the understanding that an object has not disappeared permanently just because it isn't visible now.
Massachusetts et de Pensylvanie, ne fait rien qui conduise à cette libération, tant qu'il semble approuver par le silence ou les refus de sa legislature, la permanence de l'esclavage, il laisse sa constitution et ses loix flétries d'une tâche que l'on peut, sans exageration, dire deshonorante, puisqu'elle ne peut être excusée, ni palliée, par aucune des circonstances où se trouve cet État. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916

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