In the wake of their midterm triumph, the permanent campaigners in the White House must be thinking: Will nobody rid us of this troublesome 22d Amendment?
The roses above ($285) and 100 other flowers, plants and trees are a triumph of fakery at Permanent Foliage, a shop in the Chelsea area that moved last month to 26th Street.
Wang Yongchen, who runs Green Earth Volunteers, one of China's oldest environmental groups, cautioned that while the decision to scrap plans for dams on the Nu was a significant triumph, it was not necessarily a permanent one.
So Blair's concession that he must leave office, a decision so long postponed and so disastrously protracted, represents among other things a triumph of the mundane over the permanent temptation to believe that politics is about anything else.
The Champions League and FA Cup triumphs saw his interim position made permanent and Di Matteo began this season with nine wins from 12 matches.
Yet in 12 Years a Slave, Northrup's "triumph" over slavery is set against the permanent context of an oppressed community in which we see him operate.
The bravery and poignancy of other images allowed ordinary people to believe that the human spirit would triumph in the end, and, importantly, this visual permanent record made people feel sacrifice would not be in vain.
His triumph follows comments in 2008 from Horace Engdahl, the then permanent secretary of the Nobel prize jury, that "the US is too isolated, too insular.
Republican and Democratic vote counters in favor of the bill said they were within a vote or two of their targets needed to grant Beijing permanent normal trading relations and give President Clinton a crowning foreign policy triumph.
Use your celebrity to communicate a new narrative about slavery that reframes our challenge: not just to seek triumph against the transient threat of human trafficking but a permanent liberation for the species from the dehumanizing grasp of exploitation.
