"perennial argument" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to an argument or debate that has been ongoing for a long time, often without resolution. Examples: - The perennial argument between the two rival companies continued to dominate the industry for decades. - My parents have a perennial argument about whether to save or spend their money. - The topic of gun control is a perennial argument in American politics. - Jack and Jill's relationship was plagued by a perennial argument over how to spend their weekends.
A PERENNIAL argument among business-school types is whether leadership can be taught.
But surely both those institutions – the BBC and the NHS – are collective endeavours, automatically locating their founding ethos at least on the left side of the perennial argument?
Abbas's defenders will say the president was simply referring to the long years the Palestinians have endured without statehood but such is the way this perennial argument operates.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony on Nov. 5 for the addition to the Harvard Club [Nov. 2] marked the very welcome end to a quarter-century of perennial argument and uncertainty about whether to build an addition.
Many will click straight to the two celebrity items in the collection, about which there is a perennial argument: the Rosetta Stone, whose absence from Cairo is flagged up prominently in the Egyptian city, and the Elgin Marbles, about whose restitution the Greeks have been campaigning for decades.
But gangsta or not, his mere association with hip-hop will surely ignite the perennial argument — does rap belong in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
But perennial arguments about the price that ought to be paid for content are turning uglier as digital distribution transforms the media landscape.
He said there were perennial arguments about the exact location of the boundary of South Ossetia, and that "the overall picture is more tense as the anniversary approaches".
The second type of argument is one side of a perennial debate in the philosophy of cognitive science.
Bailey doesn't address how Velázquez, a Catholic royalist, rates against Rembrandt, his Protestant, bourgeois contemporary, a comparison that constitutes one of the perennial barroom-type arguments over incommensurable geniuses: Tolstoy/Dostoyevsky, Picasso/Matisse, Ali/ Frazier
Though Saudis frequently scoff at what they regard as foreigners' obsession with the driving ban, it is a perennial topic of private argument.
