Sentence examples for permanent gains from inspiring English sources

But the victory won at Cortenuova proved difficult to convert into permanent gains.

You see that these gains are not necessarily permanent gains, and these gains have to continue to be fought for.

History has vindicated both of them for the real and permanent gains they accomplished for American society, but the fear that defeated them still remains.

When peaks of protest are connected to long-term action, temporary shifts in power have a far greater chance of becoming permanent gains in democracy, equality and freedom.

It had been ingrained in every aspect and in all the evidence of my upbringing that the gains made in the 1940s towards free education, free health and decent standards of welfare were permanent gains, lasting standards of improvement, the majority of the people finally imposing themselves on the minority.

Indonesia is still plagued by corruption, red tape and rent-seeking, but its politics are so fluid that it is difficult for tycoons to lock down permanent gains, says Hal Hill, an expert at the Australian National University.In the cinema business, however, the wave of liberalisation has been slow to arrive.

In the east they had defeated the Ethiopians, but the victory produced no permanent gain.

Uesugi's battles with the noted general Takeda Shingen resulted in no permanent gain for either side, however.

Thus, especially in markets where brands are highly similar, sales promotions can cause a short-term increase in sales but little permanent gain in market share.

Thus a rise in house prices is more likely to be seen as a permanent gain in wealth by a home owner than is a rise in share prices.

In so far as it has made widely available the most important demanding philosophical voices of the age, in so far as it has filled German bookshelves with the presence of that German Jewish intellectual and nervous genius which Nazism sought to obliterate, the Suhrkamp initiative has been a permanent gain".