The allegations have unwound the tight relations between the French Republic and Gabon; embarrassed France's executive branch; and shaken the enduring notion of Françafrique, the idea that France's special dominion in Africa did not end with the independence of former French colonies.
The Roman emperor Aurelian advised rubbing cloth over body fat to get rid of it, an apparently enduring notion: I remember going to a gym with my mother, in the nineteen-eighties, and encountering a machine that consisted of a vibrating belt that you were supposed to step into to shape your thighs or your waist.
That Trump believed he could fire the person leading law enforcement's Russia investigation without a meaningful response from another branch of government is a sign of his unfamiliarity with the separation of powers, and, most perilous to himself, an enduring notion of impunity.
And by turning inward upon their own thoughts, the Japanese were free to develop an enduring notion of their own culture and identity.
This enduring notion -- that the world can have its coal and climate too, by pumping the carbon dioxide from combustion into the earth -- has been promoted by institutions from Peabody Energy, the world's biggest coal company, to the Natural Resources Defense Council.
As for the enduring notion that Mr. Bush takes his instructions from the organized Christian right, it misses a much more interesting story: as an independent political structure, the Christian right is dying.
Comedy Central's appointment of Noah, though refreshing, does little to dispel the enduring notion that women should be happy with the daytime gigs (The View, for example), and leave late-night TV to the boys.
On the other, given the desiccated nature of the event inside and the enduring notion that you are nothing in public life if people can't manufacture a security threat around you, it did rather give the impression of the Labour conference being somewhere too irrelevant to even dream of attacking.
The group's enduring notion of the urbane "Mitsubishi gentleman" has also made it an easy mark for sokaiya, gangsters who extort money by threatening to air dirty laundry.
Despite ongoing concerns about lice lurking on sofas and under sheets like bed bugs do, researchers have also dispelled the enduring notion that lice spread readily via combs, barrettes, hats and pillowcases.
