Example collocations logo

Permanent in sentence

1334 examples of Permanent in a sentence

From then on, raising taxes became anathema to the Republicans, and, in time, most of Bush’s “temporary” tax cuts became permanent.
Its model should not be Palestine and permanent battle, but Switzerland and permanent prosperity.
Without debt restructuring, a low target for the primary budget surplus (net of debt payments), a “bad bank” to deal with non-performing loans, and a comprehensive reform agenda that tackles the worst cases of rent seeking, Greece is condemned to permanent depression.
North Korea is now the ninth state with nuclear weapons, joining the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Israel, India, and Pakistan.
What needs to be done also has been well known since 20 years ago, when a nonpartisan report by a cross-party group of big-city mayors unanimously agreed on measures to be taken: efficient repression, highly developed social prevention, a permanent local police presence, and a renewed effort at reintegrating delinquents.
In particular, three changes are necessary: the relaxation of the 1% rule, the expansion of eligibility criteria to include more than just reforestation, and the removal of the 60-year replacement rule (which mandates the replacement of temporary with permanent credits after 60 years, regardless of the state of the underlying forests).
Fortunately, President Barack Obama resisted, and instead negotiated a treaty between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (plus Germany) that blocks Iran’s path to nuclear weapons for a decade or more, creating space for further confidence-building measures on both sides.
But what seemed like a permanent division of the world into competing spheres of interest suddenly ended in 1989, when the Eastern Bloc left the Soviet orbit, soon followed by the republics of the Soviet Union itself.
The division between debtor and creditor countries will become permanent, with Germany dominating and the periphery becoming a depressed hinterland.
In fact, according to the OECD’s indicators of employment protection, German and Dutch workers under permanent contracts enjoy even greater security than French workers do.
In addition to its longstanding cultural ties with Russia, Serbia depends on Russian energy supplies, as well as Russia’s veto power as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
Indeed, the recent market buzz has been about the benefits of permanent monetization of public deficits and debt.
Acting prime minister Ehud Olmert and others pointed out years ago that Israel’s permanent occupation will be increasingly difficult as the relative number of Jewish citizens decreases demographically both within Israel and in Palestine.
Over the years, opinion polls have consistently shown that about 60% of Israelis favor withdrawing from the West Bank in exchange for permanent peace.
Down through the years, I have seen despair and frustration evolve into optimism and progress and, even now, we need not give up hope for permanent peace for Israelis and freedom and justice for Palestinians if three basic premises are honored:1.Israel’s right to exist – and to live in peace – must be recognized and accepted by Palestinians and all other neighbors;2.The killing of innocent people by suicide bombs or other acts of violence cannot be condoned; and3.Palestinians must live in peace and dignity, and permanent Israeli settlements on their land are a major obstacle to this goal.
The other development was the decision to make permanent the dollar swap arrangements put in place during the financial crisis by the Fed, the European Central Bank, and the central banks of Canada, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Japan.
First, it should immediately negotiate permanent dollar swap lines with countries such as South Korea, Chile, Mexico, India, and Brazil.
Deep concerns about the internal situation many countries who suffer almost permanent political and institutional crises, such as Haiti, Ecuador and Bolivia, abound.
As the structural causes that have pushed these countries into near permanent states of crisis seem unlikely to be resolved anytime soon, there problems may well become linked to Latin America’s tense relations with the US.
The United Nations does not even use the same metrics across all of its agencies: in the General Assembly, every country is weighted equally, and there are no veto rights; in the Security Council, the five permanent members (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the US) have veto rights.
Indeed, in the original agreement, the five large powers that would be represented permanently on the IMF Executive Board were the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, and France – the same countries with permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council.
France and Germany argue that this rotational system is dysfunctional, partly because of discontinuity, and have proposed that the Council should appoint a full-time permanent President for a period of five years.
To understand why, consider that their proposal for a permanent Council President was paired with a proposal that the Commission President--currently nominated by the Council of Ministers--should in future be elected by the European Parliament, and subsequently be endorsed by a majority vote of the Council of Ministers.
It is possible that the French thought that a permanent Council President would be an appropriately inter-governmental counter-weight to a super-legitimate integrationist Commission President.
Rather, they are stimulated in a self-reinforcing fashion by group norms, trends, and advertising, and some increases in consumption deliver no permanent increase in life satisfaction.
The UN Charter, initially negotiated by the US, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom during World War II, established a Security Council containing five permanent members, including France and the Republic of China.
But, although the Security Council was enlarged in 1965 by increasing the number of non-permanent seats from six to ten, its permanent members have not changed since 1945.
A majority of UN member states are in favor of creating a new Council with an expanded roster of both permanent and non-permanent members.
Only an increase in the number of permanent and non-permanent seats can remedy the representation deficit within the Security Council and adapt it to the realities of the twenty-first century.
This gave rise to serious discussion about instituting permanent direct air links to aid bilateral trade flow.
BackNext