Sentence examples for long continuance from inspiring English sources

II. Transf., objectively, long continuance, tediousness: belli, Just. 3, 4, 4.

"A long continuance in the first executive departments of power or trust is dangerous to liberty," declared the Maryland Constitution.

The root is threaddy, of long continuance, sending forth many strings, which disperse themselves far abroad, whereby it greatly increaseth.

This is the worldly felicity promised by the goddess Juno in "The Tempest": "Honour, riches, marriage blessing, / Long continuance and increasing".

As a consequence, he said, "I can not but believe that more is lost by the long continuance of men in office than is generally to be gained by their experience.

by Sharon Levy Red shoe under the bed, black socknestled inside it, burn mark the size of a man's thumbon the nightstand: what has been ended here?Or what begun, since from such originsno long continuance could stay itselfas my long marriage testifies by its repeated passagesof middling weather.

For geologically short periods of time, organisms may live off a finite supply of material; however, for any long-term continuance of life, a dynamic cycling of matter involving complementary types of organisms must prevail.

In transportation context, the fact that passengers are satisfied with the services provided has a crucial effect on determining the long-term continuance of a specific carrier [15].

The new owners, real estate developers, seem more interested in the quick profits of selling off Hever's land than in the long-term continuance of its style and people.

The most important debating point is whether there is still room, in addition to the significantly increasing number of multinational companies, for the long-term continuance of area-bound companies in towns and regions.

Your recent editorial "Thar She Blows—How Long?" urging the continuance of the United States modest Whale Research Program, which was axed on short notice and costs only $65,000 a year, was well timed: the research effort has since gotten a six‐month re prieve.