Sentence examples for abiding features from inspiring English sources

It stems from abiding features of the American economy, such as managerial know-how, a prized but uncounted commodity that Americans export to their subsidiaries abroad.

The visit, which will be seen as an important milestone in the ever-evolving special relationship, will show that two abiding features of the alliance remain in place.

The centrality of the individual has been one of the abiding features of the European legacy.

Even in its earliest form, opera embraced innovation, the balance between wondrous music and technical ingenuity being an abiding feature.

One abiding feature of Britishness is a reticence about overt demonstrations of patriotism: flags are seen on Remembrance Sunday, at sporting events and occasionally as bedspreads.

Similarly, in Madhya Pradesh, the commission ruled against measures by the state government exempting large numbers of people from paying for electricity.Despite the perks of being in power, an abiding feature of Indian elections is the "anti-incumbency" factor.

None of which is to deny that Israel is responsible for ongoing human rights abuses in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, an abiding feature of a 37-year occupation which has distorted Israel's life and stained its reputation.

The new data suggest that, through boom or bust, the gap between the incomes of needy renters and their shelter costs has become an abiding feature of the modern economy.

The changes point out an abiding feature of this country's racial history: when it comes to determining what exactly is a racial category, politics, not biology, is the deciding factor.

Perplexed in the face of an obdurate opponent, Murray's inability to keep a grip on the Spaniard's throat was the abiding feature of a rain-spattered quarter-final that started under a cloud and ended in light evening sunshine three hours and 45 minutes later.

For it has been an abiding feature of Armstrong's world view that we are obliged to acknowledge not only states affairs, which are truth makers, but also properties and relations, constituents of states of affairs, which aren't.