So the old are repaired and recycled according to the swings of fashion, their life a ceaseless struggle against erosion and decline.
Coastal patrols intercepted two ships packed with more than 300 illegal immigrants off the coastline of Sicily, the latest example of Italy's ceaseless struggle against a tide of desperate people trying to enter Europe.
One has to conclude that they were assailed not for what they did or did not say, but for who they were, for images that did not comport with changing attitudes in America's ceaseless struggle to be cool.
The conviction that reforms must be driven through even when they are highly unpopular; the vision of politics as a ceaseless struggle against one's enemies; the stark dividing of society between decent, aspirational folk and the idle of all social classes such things went out with leg warmers.
When, one distant day, future historians sit down to chronicle the true turning points in humanity's ceaseless struggle against tyranny and oppression, they will happen upon Disney's decision to allow staff at its theme parks in the US to wear beards – and they will start scribbling furiously.
Thus, from earliest infancy, was Saddam nurtured - like a Stalin born into very similar circumstances - in the bleak conviction that the world is a congenitally hostile place, life a ceaseless struggle for survival, and survival only achieved through total self-reliance, chronic mistrust and the imperious necessity to destroy others before they destroy you.
Not only do we have a ceaseless struggle and negotiation over individual locations and how they are developed, but the extension of different urban strategies from city to city produces networks and systems in the global city that work at cross purposes.
Long had written that after many years of studying wild animals, he was "convinced that instinct plays a much smaller part than we have supposed; that an animal's success or failure in the ceaseless struggle for life depends, not upon instinct, but upon the kind of training which the animal learns from its mother".
"I see it as a ceaseless battle -- I can even say freely a lion's struggle for the protection of state and national interests of our country," he said.
The Balkan region has been a scene of ceaseless conflict.
