DURING Fashion Week, any given table at any trendy restaurant might yield characters worthy of a novel about the ephemeral value of youth and beauty.
Unfortunately, there are also a lot of families that took on huge mortgage debts based on the ephemeral peak values of their properties.
Transhumant movements may cover ten to hundreds of kilometres, allowing livestock to cope with the seasonality of forage availability and enabling conversion of low-value ephemeral forage to high-value livestock and its products (Boone et al. 2008).
They are the kind persons who haven't abandoned their values for ephemeral triumphs over people with whom they disagree.
The Lance Armstrong and Oscar Pistorius cases serve as timely reminders of the ephemeral nature of the value added by celebrity.
The purpose of the study was to understand the economic, social and environmental role and value of ephemeral wetlands in eastern Mauritania and propose management alternatives (Shine 2002).
In this paper, the livelihood value of ephemeral wetlands in eastern Mauritania, based on the multiple-use model that was practised from 1999 to 2001, is compared to the single-use intensive systems proposed at that time by development agencies.
It is in this context that a study conducted in eastern Mauritania between 1999 and 2001 is presented here to demonstrate the economic value of ephemeral wetlands as multi-use resources for pastoralism, agriculture and biodiversity.
It's rather amazing that the very people who buy and sell millions of dollars of diamonds a year acknowledge the ephemeral nature of their value at the same time that their lives are completely invested in them.
Vegetative characters have limited taxonomic value, leaving ephemeral floral morphology as the only diagnosable field character for identification.
"AOL bought Time Warner, a company that had real value, not something ephemeral," he said.
