What would happen is that effective power would shift, automatically, to those with some permanence.
That is, the ephemeral nature of all speech is being given the permanence of text.
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Perhaps a long-ingrained preference for permanence is being replaced by a desire for the perpetually changing.
The pact, he said, enhanced the euro's permanence "contrary to all the negative prophecies".
And that is a big advantage of books, and of physical artifacts in general: permanence.
The verb "to finalize" became common in literary circles, expressing the permanence of printed words.
The concept of object permanence explains why peek-a-boo is such a hilarious game for infants.
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The presidency has started to develop some features of greater permanence, which could be nudged along.
Dictators go to great lengths to conjur up the perception of authority and permanence.
The Arabs of Palestine no longer seriously challenge the permanence of the Jewish state.
But it is quite likely that the compromises reached under Mr Bremer's supervision may harden into permanence.
They stride around proclaiming a project's permanence, oblivious to the shadow of catastrophe that looms behind them.
Because a false concept about the permanence and credibility of tree pulp persists.
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Maybe they offer an illusion of permanence and continuity in a world characterized mainly by mobility, change, and uncertainty.
Even the buildings somehow don't quite exude the permanence of the old jobs.
And the permanence of social media and technology can be a life sentence.
The depth and permanence of the schism will only be revealed with time.
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And for all its equivocation, Hamas still refuses to say plainly that it can ever accept the permanence of Israel.
In 1972 he founded a journal, Communio, and has since used it to make the intellectual case for doctrinal permanence.
NPC, with all its rites and incantations, is meant to suggest permanence and continuity: stability in a sea of change.
The status quo by itself is not harmful but when it morphs into a kind of permanence then it can be harmful.
El Mogote has an air of increasing permanence: a stack of new wood for building blocks the mud track entering the settlement.
For most Ugandans, this was a vote for or against Mr Museveni himself, not for or against the permanence of his system.
We want connectivity and immediacy, but we also seek permanence and tradition.
Also, budget deficits got easy to finance in the absence of dollar convertibility, so you can hang their permanence on 1971 as well.
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There was one campaign that perhaps stands above them all for both the duration of my involvement (eight years) and its historic permanence.
There's something about rhyme, about formal patterns of accents, about parallelism in grammatical structure -- they give language a kind of magic and permanence.
The permanence of what anyone posts online and the absence of an "eraser" button mean that the embarrassment and potential damage can last forever.
The permanence of the Brotherhood has been threatened by the lack of interest shown by the elite in cultures of African and mixed origin.
The problem, as Richard points it out, is object permanence .
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