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48 examples of Transient in a sentence

But these immediate effects are transient, they help you right after.
We humans are inventing a new fire, not dug from below, but flowing from above; not scarce, but bountiful; not local, but everywhere; not transient, but permanent; not costly, but free.
Visitors are transient.
Home is a transient concept.
The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you've ever been.
And this is called the James Webb Space Telescope, and that will launch in 2018, and that's what we're going to do, we're going to look at a special kind of planet called transient exoplanets, and that will be our first shot at studying small planets for gases that might indicate the planet is habitable.
It's a valuable awareness of impermanence, both a kind of gentle, transient sadness as things pass by in life, but also a deeper, softly lingering sadness about the impermanence of all reality.
But this transient gesture, this flick of the wrists had to become a structure that would be strong enough to withstand two Austrian winters.
And all of this is played out against the backdrop of transient pack ice that moves with wind and tide.
Set in 1978, the film provides a look into the lives of a group of transient friends who have found a home sharing each others company in the town of Ajax, population 620.
In one scene there is about 2 minutes of yelling between a French transient and somebody walking with Tchaikovsky - very heated discourse - and there are no subtitles.
Slow growth and globalization have divided all European societies – and the United States – into two new classes: those whose education and social capital enable them to cope with today’s globalized economy, and those stuck in low-paid, often transient jobs (and thus most directly affected by competition from legal and illegal immigrants).
Huge two-way gross capital flows are driven by transient changes in perception, with carry-trade opportunities (borrowing in low-yielding currencies to finance lending in high-yielding ones) replacing long-term capital investment.
But this was – or was supposed to be – transient.
It was sincerely believed, and supported by deep intuitive judgment, that interruptions in this upward trajectory could only be small and transient.
Other countries’ lack of male escape fantasies in their popular culture may be no less historically rooted: less transient, more traditional societies will not warmly welcome homegrown films and pop songs about local young men taking off and fleeing their responsibilities.
A post-modern neglect or disdain for reality generated the sense that the whole world was constantly shifting and malleable, and might be as transient and meaningless as stock quotations.
Training the Middle East’s Future Health-Care ProfessionalsBOSTON – The Middle East’s public-health challenges are enormous, especially when one accounts for the region’s transient population of refugees and guest workers.
In recent decades, vulnerability and economic insecurity have increased with the rise of transient, casual, and precarious employment, including self-employment, and part-time, fixed-term, temporary, and on-call jobs.
Will today’s constrictions on journalism in the UK be similarly transient?
Again as in Chile, they suggest that, while political regimes are transient, the heart and honor of a nation always rests with its Army.
But when the economy fails – and the failure is not just a transient phase but a symptom of deep contradictions – capitalism’s disruptive social side effects can turn politically toxic.
The DSM’s latest revision will increase the number of prescriptions by including, among the diagnosed, those experiencing the kind of transient depression that can also typify grief.
As a result, women dominate the informal economy, where jobs are often transient and earnings are low.
Whatever the exchange rate regime, fixed or floating, which a country adopts it is surely unwise to promote or even allow net import of foreign capital in such transient liquid form as developing markets have done over the course of this decade.
With a weaker currency, the country will benefit from an increase in export competitiveness that could offset those incremental losses and the transient investment weakness that is likely to arise.
In that case, today’s prosperity is likely to prove transient.
But a boom connotes transient good fortune – enjoy it while it lasts, or save the proceeds for a rainy day.
But our long history with the disease demonstrates that our control over it is tenuous, and likely to be transient – and that threats to public health anywhere are threats to public health everywhere.
By contrast, the US eagerly anticipates its future global impact, with the awareness that its leadership role is transient.