This week, the case of John Dale, who served 20 years in the military but whose return to civilian life was beset by mental health problems, drinking, relationship difficulties and abiding guilt about his time in the forces, was reported in this paper.
One of John Major's abiding memories of Balmoral was of the difficulties of handling urgent business while there.
The inherent difficulty of monitoring officers in the field is an abiding theme in the intelligence business, but sending up tainted reports -- treating bad agents like good ones when you knew better -- that was new.
One of Mr. Transtromer's abiding interests — obsessions, almost — is the complex nature of identity and the difficulty of safeguarding something so difficult to describe or analyze.
Poverty is an abiding theme.
That's one abiding memory.
His abiding passion was Persian poetry.
He also has abiding passion for barbecue.
But theater remains an abiding interest.
Human conduct is Lord's abiding subject.
