| He opposed the mission station model because it perpetuated the missionaries' foreign culture and their permanence. |
| Everything is in a never-ending state of flux, oscillating between life and death, mocking our every attempt at permanence. |
| For Zen, however, this need for permanence fossilizes what is both beautiful and sacred. |
| There is something in a furtive glance of eyes on the subway, or from the passing crowd that does not tend to permanence. |
| More difficult to handle than the immediate grief is the permanence of loss that sets in later. |
| The documentary advertisements that the draftsman of the Act had in mind would have had some quality of permanence. |
