lasting

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Chief operating officer Jamie Stephenson said: "We're putting significant investment into improving reliability and reaching these new delivery targets, but delivering lasting change across a network of this scale takes time."

From BBC • May 29, 2026

He urged "a law that clearly establishes the principle that the crimes of trafficking and slavery have caused lasting historical, cultural, social, economic and psychological harm".

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

Across Wall Street, investors are assuming that a credible and lasting deal between the U.S. and Iran would be an unmitigated positive for stocks and other risky assets.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

Their spectral analysis also suggested that these 5,000-year cycles could trigger even faster climate oscillations lasting between 1,800 and 4,000 years through nonlinear climate interactions.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

As a result, European conquest did not create widespread or lasting European settlement of sub-Saharan Africa, except in the far south.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond