This is not the same as saying, hopefully, that nobody's political views ever change, although all of us can probably think of people we know whose political views have managed to get stuck depressingly early on in their lives, and have never altered.
In truth, the coal industry in Illinois, the Saudi Arabia of coal, peaked in 1918, and while little spurts of demand took place during the Second World War, the mines have never altered from its downward slope of boom-bust mayhem.
In the end, business interests outweighed principles, a truce was arranged, and, though Turner has never altered his view of Murdoch, he began to focus on other things.
I have watched him play against varying grades of opposition and the one thing I have noticed above all else is that his game has never altered one jot; it has never dipped.
The founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia had never altered a phone message before, Ann Armstrong, her assistant testified.
Meticulous in his preparation, Bournemouth's style as they have gone through the leagues has never altered, with Howe sticking to his philosophy of free-flowing, passing football.
And while the emphasis of marriage has changed over the centuries and it now stresses personal companionship more strongly, but its definition has never altered.
He had come to admire Margaret Thatcher, though not the rest of her party: "But there is one, and only one, political position that, through all the years and all my changing views and feelings, has never altered, never come into question, never seemed too simple for a complex world.
Since the founding by Daniel de Leon in 1890 the Socialist Labor Party has never alters its program or basic policies by so much as a title, and every once in a while it goes on record that it is renewing its demand that capitalism take a runout powder.
Despite such rare surprises, though, New York's idiosyncratic arrangements have never fundamentally altered the basic two-party dynamic.
