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
“These folks have already been through so much and it’s frankly embarrassing that we can’t figure out how to give them the permanency that they’ve earned.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 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
It is the business and the art of life to degrade permanencies.
From Here are Ladies by Stephens, James
Is it because 'tis unsubstantial all—senseless, though fair—and in its evanescence unsuited to the sympathies that yearn for the permanencies of breathing life?
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
Rhetoric, according to its quality, stands in many degrees of relation to the permanencies of truth; and all rhetoric, like all flesh, is partly unreal, and the glory of both is fleeting.
From Biographical Essays by De Quincey, Thomas
But I cannot propose that she should live permanently with me because all future permanencies have been taken out of my hands.
From The Shadow of the East by Hull, E. M. (Edith Maude)
