Although it never sold as well as the original VW -- 5.3 million Minis were built, compared with an estimated 21.5 million Beetles -- and wasn't nearly as well known in the United States, it endured for 41 years and found its way all over the planet.
It endured for ages; And blood was shed By those who would not stand in rows, And by those who pined to stand in rows.
There it endured for 27 years, a cramped, cluttered, unlovely space that had little going for it except, of course, tons of books.
It endured for two decades as a series of tournaments leading to the Masters Championship and a bonus pool of earnings for a host of leading players.
But the trans community is understandably sensitive, having only just started to overcome the dreadful media portrayals it endured for so long.
In her autobiography, "Me: Stories of My Life", published in 1991, when she was 84, she gropes around trying to take a detached view of fame, and why it endures for some people.
Why he did so is his own business, but if affirmative action as we know it endures for another quarter century, I expect that many of the minority Americans currently being born will do exactly the same thing.
If Republicans follow through on their threat not to confirm any Democratic nominees, the board will be largely paralyzed because it cannot legally make decisions with just two members, a situation it endured for 26 months beginning in 2008 when both parties blocked each other's nominees.
WHEN Palestine's sparring factions, the secular nationalists of Fatah and the Islamists of Hamas, last agreed in 2007 to form a single government, it endured for a dismal three months and collapsed into a three-day civil war that left Palestine split in two.
Shostakovich's greatest opera, "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District," was a watershed in the composer's career for all the wrong reasons -- proscribed by the authorities, it nearly leveled that career -- and it endures for all the right ones: strong characters, dramatic construction and superb music.
