permanency
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It said that allowing them to be revoked "based simply on welfare" could undermine their permanency.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin observed in 1815 that the people “are more Americans; they feel and act more as a nation; and I hope that the permanency of the Union is thereby better secured.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
To say that I alone can do virtually anything suggests a degree of permanency, perhaps even supernatural power.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
“To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable,” Washington wrote.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2024
It was even harder this time because the girls were getting older and they wanted some sense of permanency and continuity in their lives.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
Both have now embarked on the quest for that most elusive of all permanencies: a lasting peace.
From Time Magazine Archive
An old Englishwoman completed our list of permanencies.
From Confessions of an Opera Singer by Kathleen Howard
When deterioration occurs in the conditions that make literacy possible and necessary, many of the permanencies associated with literacy, including the interpersonal relations adapted to it, or the homogeneity of nations, fail.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
I can stand her in homeopathic doses, but the Riviera isn't nearly big enough for the two of us as permanencies.
From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Ernest Christopher Dowson
It is the business and the art of life to degrade permanencies.
From Here are Ladies by James Stephens
