Sentence examples for functionality and permanence from inspiring English sources

David Sims, an urban planner who is the author of "Understanding Cairo," has pointed out that the capital's slums have a functionality and permanence that's rare in many parts of the developing world.

"He will replace certainty and permanence for something that is uncertain and not permanent".

Africa distorts your sense of time and permanence.

Writing, after all, gave poetry its visibility and permanence.

And permanence, by its nature, offers a pretense of truth.

Timelessness, monumentality and permanence were essential qualities for Moore.

She says the "issues of leakage and permanence" have been "resolved".

Ultimately, the loss is maybe less about numbers than about quality and permanence.

The Nyaya-Vaisheshika general metaphysical standpoint allows for both particulars and universals, both change and permanence.

Paul and Duluth in the east to Portland and Seattle in the West, suggesting its scope and permanence.

Technology may have undermined long-held assumptions about the nature and permanence of jobs.