He had other problems, not the least of which was the fact that his adopted Shia faith was the doctrine not of settled power but of permanent argument; at its heart was a distrust of all secular government; Abbas needed loyalty.
They would become a permanent class, the argument goes, with the temporary elected class sprinkled in for variety.
And much like the doctrine of checks and balances in the Constitution, the enshrinement of argument created a permanent collision of juxtaposed ideas and interests that generated a dynamic and wholly modern version of political stability.
The logic of this was plain to my interlocutors: "By killing American soldiers, they seek to justify greater repression and build the argument for a permanent American military occupation of our country," a well-educated Sunni doctor patiently explained to me one day, in Baghdad.
eBay went before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to present its argument against a permanent injunction of its "Buy It Now" function.
The e-commerce giant will present its argument against a permanent injunction of its "Buy It Now" function, which technology firm MercExchange claimed violated a patent it holds.
In this view, the protection and delimitation of one particular transhumance corridor is not a permanent solution; it is an argument for pastoralists' user rights in a broader conversation about the management of common-pool resources.
The argument of a permanent reduction in the stock of general human capital does not seem to apply in the latter case, given the aforementioned evidence on non-falling school enrollment, although other subtler mechanisms might be in place.27.27
Charles Banks-Altekruse's argument for establishing a permanent site for the Olympic Games ("Give the Olympics a Home," Op-Ed, March 1) misses the overriding point of the Games for the millions like me who sit at home and are captivated for two weeks every two years.
In the last stages of the chapter, Vasubandhu's non-Buddhist believer in a permanent self proposes several potential counter-arguments.
