enduring state

In part, such companies thrive on the lethargy and unwieldiness of enduring state enterprises.

He could not even create an enduring state in the highlands, due to the strong localism persisting in the region.

Citing Vermont's tumultuous founding, his epitaph reads "Out of storm and manifold perils rose an enduring state, the home of freedom and unity."

Instead, contending that it wanted to forge "an enduring state constitution," the junta sought her participation in a stage-managed convention that was to draft a new charter assuring its permanent dominance.

Such an alignment of the two elements, which composed the Nation, indicated how far the so-called Civilization, which modern industrialism has created, was from achieving that social harmony, which is the ideal and must be the base of every wholesome and enduring State.

He possessed qualities of conviction, courage, candor and even good will, "but not, in my experience, tenderness: that is, there was no self-forgetful surrender - whether to affection or to the vulnerable shades of trust or remorse; still less, to any enduring state of happiness."

Like wars on ignorance and crime, a "war on terror" suggests an enduring state of struggle - a "never ending fight against terror and its relentless onslaughts," as Camus put it in "The Plague," his 1947 allegory on the rise and fall of Fascism.