Selma inhabits a space which acknowledges that blackness existed before the United States and is more enduring than any nation state will ever be.
Conversely, the most practical route to a bi-national state may lie in securing a modicum of justice and peace as soon as possible through a two-state settlement, thus establishing the conditions most likely to lead, through dialogue and consensus-building over the longer term, to a more enduring bi-national state.
But the fact that she hasn't abandoned the president, even after his flat performance in Denver, suggests that Obama's appeal in swing states may be more enduring than it is nationally.
However significant the current configuration of Tea Party hostility to the Obama administration, the continuing conflict between the treasury and Congress reflects a more enduring problem, namely the internal contradiction the American state faces in acting as both the state of US society and the "indispensable" state of global capitalism.
Our conception of values and attitudes is based on the cognitive hierarchy model of human behaviour which states that values are more enduring and more difficult to change than attitudes.
Still, Mr. Kaplan may be right in his longer-range vision of the Middle East, where the fate of ethnically divided countries like Syria, Iraq and Jordan may prove of more enduring significance than the fate of the Palestinian state.
The first is Chaos -- which could be a temporary state of affairs, as often occurs in global interregnums, or something more enduring.
Hopelessness may be conceptualised as a temporary mood state reflecting a person's response to challenging circumstances, or a more enduring trait reflecting a habitual outlook on many aspects of life.
David intellectually agrees but believes it to be far preferable to allow states to democratically decide rules of marriage which would create "a more enduring consensus".
Beyond many state residents' erroneous belief that vaccines are linked to autism, lies a stronger — and perhaps more enduring — motivation.
