(1) The low population densities and impermanent settlements of Amazonian Indians are often interpreted as adaptations to a fauna that offers limited protein resources and is rapidly depleted by hunting.
(2) For the most part, my comfort with impermanence has outweighed the discomfort of sleeping on someone’s used couch.
(3) A devoted Buddhist, he chatted away about impermanence and reaching higher states of being.
(4) Along the way if there are points of pain, you observe them impersonally as your scan reaches those points, knowing they are impermanent.
(5) A performing art, it has always been uniquely difficult to preserve and reproduce (the tragedy of its impermanence was brought home this summer by the deaths of Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham).
(6) In 1989, when Gehry was awarded the prestigious Pritzker prize, the citation read: "His sometimes controversial, but always arresting body of work, has been variously described as iconoclastic, rambunctious and impermanent, but the jury, in making this award, commends this restless spirit that has made his buildings a unique expression of contemporary society and its ambivalent values."
(7) The alignment of this tooth with the toothcomb is a strictly impermanent situation and cannot be taken into consideration when determining homologies of the teeth of the toothcomb.
(8) Calling these children "detainees" is a way of suggesting to all who read that they are little more than impermanent prisoners, strangers in a strange land who we'll soon send on their way.
(9) Franzen, who avoids the internet while he writes, has previously laid out his reasons for disliking ebooks : reading a book on a screen feels too impermanent, he believes, and he worries "that it's going to be very hard to make the world work if there's no permanence like that.
(10) In particular, there is the stoicism that teaches us to take mortality and the impermanence of all things as cues to detach ourselves from the ups and downs of life and embrace an accepting tranquility.
(11) If you take that permanence and then point out all the impermanence within it, that becomes a really fascinating topic, I think."
(12) Zeldin said: "It's very dehumanising that people are being made to work and live in complete impermanence.
(13) Intensive study of 5 of the most seriously affected villages over a period of 3 years has shown that there is a delicate balance between the parasite and its human host in this area, largely as a result of the impermanent nature of the principal transmission sites, i.e., ponds and the smaller riverine pools.
(14) Further, he notes that unless adolescents' problems are understood in the context of improperly functioning families, any help provided will be impermanent at best.
(15) It demands an individual preoccupation of the therapist with the basic questions regarding his own life and its impermanence.
(16) We describe a congenital deformity of the foot which is characterised by calcaneus at the ankle and valgus at the subtalar joint; spontaneous improvement does not occur and serial casting results in incomplete or impermanent correction of the deformities.
(17) We learnt about the impermanence of health and the vicissitudes of life.
(18) The problems of controlling and ultimately eradicating pertussis are addressed in the face of the apparent impermanence of vaccine immunity, and the limited protection offered while it lasts.
(19) Today's youth lives in a "throw away society" characterized by an impermanence of both objects and human relations--which works counter to traditional health values and practices.
(20) Franzen, whose stories about dysfunctional middle-class families hold up a mirror to contemporary America, has hit out at new media culture before, denigrating ebooks for their impermanence and branding Twitter the "ultimate irresponsible medium" .
Permanent
Definition:
(a.) Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression.
Example Sentences:
(1) tRNA from mutant IB13 lacks 5-methylaminomethyl-2-thio-uridine in vivo due to a permanently nonfunctional methyltransferase.
(2) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
(3) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(4) The first group was reared in complete darkness while the second one was subjected to permanent noise.
(5) Noise exposure and demographic data applicable to the United States, and procedures for predicting noise-induced permanent threshold shift (NIPTS) and nosocusis, were used to account for some 8.7 dB of the 13.4 dB average difference between the hearing levels at high frequencies for otologically and noise screened versus unscreened male ears; (this average difference is for the average of the hearing levels at 3000, 4000, and 6000 Hz, average for the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles, and ages 20-65 years).
(6) Electromagnetic interference presented as inhibition and resetting of the demand circuitry of a ventricular-inhibited temporary external pacemaker in a 70-year-old man undergoing surgical implantation of a permanent bipolar pacemaker generator and lead.
(7) A total of 27 reoperations including eight repeat PRs (5 of which were successful) was required to achieve permanent retinal reattachment.
(8) Thirteen of the dogs treated with various drug regimens lived for 90 days, after which time treatment was stopped; 10 of the dogs eventually rejected the grafts, but three had continued graft function for 6 months or longer and may be permanently tolerant.
(9) This article presents the case of bilateral absent maxillary permanent molars with severe oligodontia and no other abnormalities.
(10) The heretofore "permanently and totally disabled versus able-bodied" principle in welfare reforms is being abbandoned.
(11) Many reports of thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins (TSI) in relation to treatment of Graves' disease have been published and with variable results concerning prediction of permanent remission or relapse after therapy.
(12) Patients with Type 2 and Type 3 failure require permanent transfer to hemodialysis.
(13) Only two aviators were permanently removed from flying duties due to glaucoma.
(14) By parenteral nutrition, antibiotics and permanent paediatric care the authors controlled all complications and after eight and a half months the operated infant could be discharged.
(15) I have to do my best.” The Leeds sporting director Nicola Salerno told the news conference that it was unlikely there would be new permanent signings in the January transfer window, but that there would be the possibility for loan deals.
(16) After loss of permanent central incisors the treatment of choice could be either orthodontic closure or maintenance of the gap for a replacement-prosthetic, autotransplantation or implant.
(17) Thirty-three percent of patients (15 of 45) with MAC required permanent pacemaker implantation after aortic valve replacement, compared with only 10% of patients (3 of 31) without MAC (p less than 0.025).
(18) In lean rats, there were no permanent effects of this intervention except for a 25% reduction in carbohydrate intake.
(19) Perinatal brain damage produced by early zinc deficiency followed by rehabilitation with adequate zinc appears to be long term, maybe permanent.
(20) The process by which prolonged treatment at 2.2 kbar led to permanent activation of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase after release of pressure was not reflected, however, by time-dependent changes in the functional state of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase at this pressure.