I try to unearth aspects of it that might be of more permanent interest and refocus attention on to them.
Let me make it plain: the protection and advancement of the permanent interests of both the "straight" and LGBT communities require that we actively seek to build a working coalition to acquire and exercise sufficient political power to mandate what we want; rather than just pleading and petitioning for what we believe to be just.
In "The Federalist Papers", Madison was unhappily resigned to the idea that Congress would suffer, like state legislatures, "from the disposition of the members to sacrifice the comprehensive and permanent interest of the State to the particular and separate views of the counties or districts in which they reside".
As a youth, he gave some attention to the ways of the brook fish of western Switzerland, but his permanent interest in ichthyology began with his study of an extensive collection of Brazilian fishes, mostly from the Amazon River, which had been collected in 1819 and 1820 by two eminent naturalists at Munich.
Judge Moses Hungwe Chinhengo called on the government "to recognize that it is in the permanent interest of Zimbabwe and the rule of law to bring an end to the farm invasions".
FR Leavis seemed to prove James's point, when he excluded the Brontës from his Great Tradition, on the grounds that Charlotte's was only "a permanent interest of a minor kind" and that Wuthering Heights, though "astonishing", was "a kind of sport".
Forms of government are, rather, to be judged according to "utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interest of man as a progressive being" (On Liberty, p. 224).
He continued, "As propaganda for the social revolution this book should be invaluable, and it may have a permanent interest to the historians of our decay".
Voelcker (1893) observed that anything which induces the people to invest money on the land gives them a permanent interest in the continuance of the English rule.
