Permanence Sentence Examples

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  • In such a state of mind as this there was no motive for seeking permanence by writing.

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  • The establishment of these principles was essential to the integrity and permanence of the American Union.

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  • He thus superseded Warham, who was legatus flatus, in ecclesiastical authority; and though legates a latere were supposed to exercise only special and temporary powers, Wolsey secured the practical permanence of his office.

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  • Children acquire object permanence at about seven months of age (memory).

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  • Oldness, sameness, permanence of principle and direction, these must be, otherwise there is nothing; but newness of embodiment, existence, realization also, otherwise nothing is.

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  • But it is nevertheless a monumen.t of the permanence of the old English institutions, even after the ownership of four-fifths of the soil has been changed.

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  • Others have argued that the relative permanence of such forms of body modification militates against their full absorption into the fashion system.

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  • The laws of object permanence are nullified for " cool " characters.

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  • Jowett's theological work was transitional, and yet has an element of permanence.

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  • We may regard it as a supplement or appendix to the Principe and the Discorsi, since Machiavelli held it for a fundamental axiom that states are powerless unless completely armed in permanence.

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  • History From 1 579 To Modern TIMES3 The political compact known as the Union of Utrecht differed from its immediate predecessors, the Pacification of Ghent, the Union of Brussels and the Perpetual Edict, in its permanence.

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  • This yearning is a dumb unintelligent longing, which moves like a heaving sea in obedience to some dark and indefinite law, and is powerless to fashion anything in permanence.

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  • It was felt that these frequent changes were unfortunate for the country, and every one was glad to welcome the advent of a government which seemed to promise greater permanence.

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  • The mission enterprises of Richard Wright (1764-1836) and George Harris (1794-1859) produced results of no great permanence.

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  • Papineau had formerly professed a deep reverence for British institutions, and he had acquired a theoretical knowledge of the constitution, but he did not possess the qualities of a statesman, and consequently in his determination to apply the strict letter of the constitution he overlooked those elements and compensating forces and powers which through custom and usage had been incorporated in British institutions, and had given them permanence.

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  • Unity may be made to contradict diversity, permanence change, the particular the universal, individuality relatedness.

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  • Whatever permanence or identity is ascribed to an impression or idea is the result of association, is one of those " propensities to feign " which are due to natural connexions among ideas.

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  • It was therefore left for the later Ionians to frame an eclectic system, a synthesis of Being and Not-being, a correlation of universal mobility and absolute permanence.

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  • We are not sure as to its permanence, so it is well to add a stock of young plants.

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  • This is also a great alternative for those who are afraid of the permanence (or just the procedure!) of LASIK.

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  • To the infant, once the caregiver cannot be seen, she is gone forever (lack of object permanence).

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  • For instance, they understand the permanence of objects and people, visually follow the displacement of objects, and begin to use instruments and tools.

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  • They understand the concepts of permanence and conservation by learning that volume, weight, and numbers may remain constant despite changes in outward appearance.

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  • Proper assessment will ensure you're left with a color you appreciate, regardless of the level of permanence.

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  • Airbrush tattoos are the closest in appearance to real tattoos of any temporary body art, and are sure to give you the look you're after without the permanence of a true tattoo.

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  • An airbrush tattoo can allow you the freedom to express yourself, without the permanence or pain of a traditional tattoo, and in a fraction of the time as other body paints.

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  • Body art paints are a great way to express yourself without the permanence of a tattoo.

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  • Object performance activities are also called relational activities and the goal is to reinforce object permanence with your preschooler.

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  • Thirteen years previously the government had endeavoured to secure greater fixity and permanence of tenure by providing that at least twelve years must elapse between every two redistributions of the land belonging to a mir amongst those entitled to share in it.'

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  • The permanence of the primitive shell-sac in these slugs is a point of considerable interest.

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  • Interesting relationships between the Ethiopian and Oriental, the Neotropical and West African, the Patagonian and New Zealand faunas suggest great changes in the distribution of land and water, and throw doubt on the doctrine of the permanence of continental areas and oceanic basins.

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  • They had to combat the feudal nobility, and later, the younger branches of the royal house established in the great duchies, and the main reason for the permanence of their power was, perhaps, the fact that there were few minorities among them.

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  • In the first place, some physical process of addition is presupposed, involving some inductively inferred law of permanence during that process.

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  • When Tarquinius Superbus desired to build a temple to Jupiter, the auguries forbade its removal, and it was enclosed within the walls of the new sanctuary, an indication of the immovability of such stones and of the permanence of the Roman territory.

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  • The constitution provides for the autonomy of the municipalities in order to safeguard the permanence of representative institutions.

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  • To the mere tradition preserved by memory and handed on by speech was then added the written record and its later multiplication by the mechanical arts of printing, by which it acquired permanence and universal distribution.

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  • Rutherfurd introduced into common use the reflection grating, finding that speculum metal was less trying than glass to the diamond point, upon the permanence of which so much depends.

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  • Had the fusion of the two little republics which Pretorius sought to bring about, and from which apparently the Free State was not averse, actually been accomplished in 1860, it is more than probable that a republican state on liberal lines, with some prospect of permanence and stability, might have been formed.

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  • The first test of the efficiency and permanence of this law came with the shifting of political power at Washington.

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  • The creator, or the divine intellect, with a view to the form of the good, and taking all forms as models, creates in a receptacle (vir080x i, Plato, Timaeus, 49 A) individual impressions which are called things but really change and become without attaining the permanence of being.

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  • Our belief in the permanence of something which corresponds to the association in our minds of actual and possible sensations means belief in the orderliness of nature; and that is merely assurance that the universe is pervaded and regulated by mind.

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  • The relation between the divine mind and finite intelligence, at first thought as that of agent and recipient, is complicated and obscure when the necessity for explaining the permanence of real things comes forward.

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  • But to ensure the permanence of structures in sea-water the great object is to choose a cement containing as little lime and alumina as possible, and free from sulphates such as gypsum; and more important still to proportion the sand and stones in the concrete in such a way that the structure is practically non-porous.

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  • But to effect this, and to give permanence to the reformation, he saw that there was need of a more practical code of laws to regulate the details of the daily life, as a supplement to St Basil's Rules.

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  • But, marvellous as it was, their work lacked the element of permanence; and it 1 Socrates, H.E.

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  • Appealing to reality it shows that the identity and permanence of forms are contradicted by history; instead of unity it exhibits multiplicity, instead of identity difference, instead of a whole, only parts.

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  • Besides the colossal Denkmdler and other publications of texts such as the Todtenbuch der Agypter (Book of the Dead, 1842) his other works, amongst which may be specially named his Konigsbuch der Agypter (1858) and Chronologie der Agypter (1849), are characterized by a quality of permanence that is very remarkable in a subject of such rapid development as Egyptology.

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  • The differentiation of queen and workers is correlated with the habit of storing food supplies, and the consequent permanence of the community, which finds relief for its surplus population by sending off a swarm, consisting of a queen and a number of workers, so that the new community is already specialized both for reproduction and for labour.

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  • These conditions are unfavourable to permanence, and the history of Asia Minor is that of the march of hostile armies, and rise and fall of small states, rather than that of a united state under an independent sovereign.

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  • The epistle, on the other hand, rather takes the place of a public speech, it is written with an audience in view, it is a literary form, a distinctly artistic effort aiming at permanence; and it bears much the same relation to a letter as a Platonic dialogue does to a private talk between two friends.

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  • San Francisco's permanence as one of the greatest ports of the country is assured by its magnificent position, the wealth of its " back country," and its command of trans-Pacific and trans-continental commercial routes.

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  • Their permanence depends not upon their importance, but upon the durability of the substance on which they are inscribed.

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  • But although the reality of some such modification is not disputed, especially as to stature and constitution, its amount is not enough to upset the counter-proposition of the remarkable permanence of type displayed by races ages after they have been transported to climates extremely different from that of their former home.

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  • Never more than a nominal wife at most, the unfortunate Stella commonly passed for his mistress till the day of her death (in her will she writes herself spinster), bearing her doom with uncomplaining resignation, and consoled in some degree by unquestionable proofs of the permanence of his love, if his feeling for her deserves the name.

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  • In the shape of a spot there is neither rule nor permanence, though those that are nearly circular seem to resist change better than the others.

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  • The system was thus shown, apart from unknown agencies of subversion, to be constructed for indefinite permanence.

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  • The cause of Servetus was taken up by Calvin's Genevan foes headed by Philibert Berthelier, and became a test of the relative strength of the rival forces and of the permanence of Calvin's control.

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  • Robertson, as also in the change which he introduced into pulpit style and in the permanence of his influence.

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  • Athens can secure the permanence of her foreign possessions only in one way - by being strong enough to hold them.

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  • The permanence of individual souls he supports by arguments borrowed from those of Plato.

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  • He claims to have shown that the dogmas of the eternity of matter and the permanence of the world are false; that their description of the Deity as the demiurgos is unspiritual; that they fail to prove the existence, the unity, the simplicity, the incorporeality or the knowledge (both of species and accidents) of God; that their ascription of souls to the celestial spheres is unproved; that their theory of causation, which attributes effects to the very natures of the causes, is false, for that all actions and events are to be ascribed to the Deity; and, finally, that they cannot establish the spirituality of the soul, nor prove its mortality.

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  • The extent and permanence of the Danish influence in Lincolnshire is still observable in the names of its towns and villages and in the local dialect, and, though about 918 the confederate boroughs were recaptured by Edward the Elder, in 993 a Viking fleet again entered the Humber and ravaged Lindsey, and in 1013 the district of the five boroughs acknowledged the supremacy of Sweyn.

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  • He died in 1002 undefeated, hut racked by anxiety for the permanence of the prosperity of his house.

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  • The supreme end prescribed by reason in its practical aspect, namely, the complete subordination of the empirical side of nature to the prescripts of morality, demands, as conditions of its possible realization, the permanence of ethical progress in the moral agent, the certainty of freedom in self-determination, and the necessary harmonizing of the spheres of sense and reason through the intelligent author or ground of both.

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  • The set was perfect while it lasted but was rather ephemeral because of my lack of permanence.

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  • Instead, we look for people who can make a lifelong commitment to a child who needs permanence, stability and a loving home.

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  • A woman mutters something about permanence and my head floats several inches from where it should be.

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  • Final arrangements to ensure the permanence of the record are to be decided.

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  • The Borley Rectory affair ensured that the participants were given historical permanence by accident.

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  • An email address has more permanence than the name of a street or building.

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  • Adoption can provide that permanence by transferring all parental rights to the childâs new family, this is done by a Court Order.

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  • You've got archival permanence on a CD but it's the reader that may not be available in 20 years.

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  • Because they would be based on revenue rather than capital funding, RSOs would have greater permanence and stability.

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  • For some reason the section also includes a section on print permanence -- didn't I just read all about that in chapter 5?

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  • A great debate ensued about whether there was value in developing a DOI when a permanent URL could achieve the same degree permanence.

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  • Modern researches (see Radioactivity) on the complex nature of the atom have a little shaken the belief in the absolute permanence of matter.

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  • Yet no one can doubt the sincerity of her narrative, or even the permanence of her religious feelings under all her many phases of faith and aberrations of conduct.

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  • His creation of a formidable standing army, the first of its kind in that age of transition from feudal conditions, gave to the Burgundian power all the outward semblance of stability and permanence.

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  • For example, the notion of conflict (7r6Xeµos) as the father of all things and of harmony as arising out of a union of discords, and again of an endeavour by individual things to maintain themselves in permanence against the universal process of destruction and renovation, cannot but remind one of certain fundamental ideas in Darwin's theory of evolution.

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  • It had not, however, a sufficiently coherent organization for permanence; parts of it became independent, others were first protected and then absorbed by the Turks.

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  • Asclepiades had many pupils who adhered more or less closely to his doctrines, but it was especially one of them, Themison, who gave permanence to the teachings of his master by framing out of them, with some modifications, a new system of medical doctrine, and founding on this basis a school which lasted for some centuries in successful rivalry with the Hippocratic tradition, which, as we have seen, was up to that time the prevailing influence in medicine.

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  • The difference between softness and hardness in ordinary steel is due to the permanence of a solid solution of carbon in iron if the steel has been chilled or very rapidly cooled, while if the steel is slowly cooled this solid solution breaks up into a minute complex of two substances which is called pearlite.

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  • I know of no such object which has achieved permanence.

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