The Beauty of Xiaohe she's called, and we forgive the poetic liberty, because in her death, against all the cautionary chastisements of later centuries, even that ephemeral aesthetic property remains intact.
Most of the problems, however, are deeply structural, going to the organization of the capital, product, and labor markets, the ephemeral nature of intellectual property, and the disruptive nature of innovation.
Unfortunately, there are also a lot of families that took on huge mortgage debts based on the ephemeral peak values of their properties.
The Thatcherite/Reaganite experiments were far too reliant on bountiful supplies of credit generated by deregulated finance, and accompanying property booms, to stimulate ephemeral growth.
The biological communities that inhabit chemosynthetic environments exist in an ephemeral and patchily distributed habitat with unique physicochemical properties that lead to high endemicity.
However, at the beginning of the 1990s, these low-lying areas or wetlands, lakes, khals (ephemeral water bodies), and drainage channels had been the main target of property developers.
Without that support, individual instances of properties could, if they could exist at all, be no more than ephemeral events.
The state should regulate our relative interests in the ephemeral realm of thought, but that regulation must be about knowledge, not a clumsy remake of the property system.
Malcolm had much to say regarding the precarious, if not ephemeral or even illusory nature of civil rights for African-Americans, who were originally noncitizens, regarded as property and not human, and therefore excluded from the protections of the Constitution.
Note, however, that what constitutes "property" as opposed to a "privilege" can often by a very fine line, if not one that is wholly ephemeral.
