perpetuity

How To Use perpetuity In A Sentence

• Augustus's testamentary review of legionary strength, and his summation of public revenues and expenses, underlay his recommendation that the borders of the empire be frozen in perpetuity.
• For example, suppose that we wish to compute the present value of a perpetuity of C dollars a year. Principles of Corporate Finance
• For example, suppose that we wish to compute the present value of a perpetuity of C dollars a year. Principles of Corporate Finance
• You will agree, sir, that these wretches behaved like men whose nephews and grand-nephews were condemned in perpetuity to remain as poor as their ancestors.
• Such was his superiority, in fact, that when he won the event for the third time in succession in 1870, he was awarded the championship belt in perpetuity.
• Her sister, Elizabeth, wished to associate herself throughout perpetuity with piety, education and literature.
• I believe the balanced budget amendment proposal would subject the nation to unacceptable economic risks in perpetuity.
• I think it would be better to speak of the perpetuity rather than the eternity of the now, since the phenomenon in question is a modest, empirical one, not some theological claim, and the word "eternal" inevitably attracts the suspicion of substantialism Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
• Water would have to be drained away from the site in perpetuity -- called dewatering -- to prevent copper and acid mine drainage into the surrounding streams where salmon, by the trillions, have spawned for thousands of years. Joel Reynolds: Telling Rio Tinto To Stop the Mine in Bristol Bay Before It Starts
• The land had been promised to the Indian tribes in perpetuity.