Sentence examples for permanent as a from inspiring English sources

Some people are fixtures as permanent as a tree.

A cluster of accommodation blocks looks as trim and permanent as a fair-sized municipal housing estate.

"Even something as seemingly permanent as a cliff face in geological time is eroding away like a dirt bank".

By 2004, Prince Bandar, who had once called the Saudi-American connection as permanent as a "Catholic marriage," was avoiding Washington as much as he could.

In one grid of repeated portraits Marilyn's face is preserved in lurid colours, as bright and permanent as a golden death mask.

The old joke that there is nothing so permanent as a temporary migrant has more than a grain of truth in it.It might be possible to create financial incentives for migrants to leave at the end of their contract period.

It would be permanent, as would a new bridge, an organ pavilion and a vast wooden botanical building neighbored by a pond.

And still, many people are afraid to move plants, as if once firmly rooted they must be as permanent as an Egyptian pyramid.

From my perspective, consumers don't want something as permanent as an app for an experience as transient as shopping or browsing.

This can detect temporary faults but not permanent faults, as a permanent fault would affect both computations.

Comparing its innovation to the wireless, the phonograph and the telephone, company leaders presented the "Semi-Permanent" as "a new kind of temporary employee…not for days or even weeks, but for two- and three-month periods to help your business grow more profitably".