Despite the country's enduring economic strength, its conception of its role in the world is outmoded, its infrastructure is crumbling, and its test scores are lagging in math and other areas, despite its impressive performance in cutting-edge research.
Thus the most important obstacle for seizing the moment to achieve enduring change: Barack Obama's conception of what it means to promote national unity.
This explains its enduring popularity, decades after its original conception.
Every country valorizes its war record, but North Korea's mythology — the improbable victory, the divine wisdom of the Kim family, and America's enduring weakness and hostility — has shaped its conception of the present to a degree that is hard for the rest of the world to understand.
Mr. Duff displays his enduring involvement with industrial materials, geometric form and philosophical conceptions of order.
In a two-part exhibition Mr. Duff displays his enduring involvement with industrial materials, geometric form and philosophical conceptions of order.
An enduring early Confucian contribution to Japanese culture related to conceptions of historical time.
But it is Sir Laurence's mouth, like a mask of tragedy itself, howling in horrid grief, which we shall remember, and Mr Brook's brilliant conception of a piece which, however horrible, is well worth enduring once in a while like this.
Unintended conceptions can result in emotional, psychological and educational harm to teenage girls, often with enduring implications for their life chances.
He thought about enduring.
