Accordingly, Marchia believed that celestial motion was probably not perpetual based on an initial virtus derelicta, perhaps left behind by God, although he asserted that it was at least possible that, in the heavens, without resistance, the virtus derelicta could be incorruptible.
The perpetual foundation is based on the assumption that people can make intelligent decisions about the use of resources far into the future.
Supporters of independence for Puerto Rico argue that the U.S. favored the establishment of the present Commonwealth status to create a perpetual consumer base for U.S. and foreign products and services.
Mr. Sparks, in his early fifties, has also created the draw-anything-you-can-see drawing board with built-in ashtrays and coasters; and a perpetual calendar based upon the Book of Revelation.
Among his other creations: The draw-anything-you-can-see drawing board; a contemporary chessboard with built-in ashtrays and coasters (more a design achievement than an actual invention); and a perpetual calendar based upon the Book of Revelation.
Exhausting our great native soils by plowing without erosion controls, moving from plot to plot as each was depleted, we were "saved" by chemical fertilizers, created in the same process by which nitrogen was synthesized in the munitions plants of Word War I, only to be betrayed by an agriculture that put soil on a perpetual petrochemically based diet.
The empty promise of perpetual growth is based on folly -- and on a fluke of evolutionary history that has allowed humankind to temporarily disregard the laws of physics.
This perpetual search, however, based on a belief in quantifiable benefits, could simply be satisfied by exploring the virtual space's dark rooms.
When I Skyped with Ficara last week, he was well into the first full week of perpetual darkness at the base, but despite the fact that he wouldn't be seeing the sun for another three months, he was all smiles and jokes.
Many people are unwilling to participate in a social compact based on perpetual motion.
Indeed the case for our London listing in June 2014 was overwhelming because our biggest shareholders, such as Woodford Investment Management and Invesco Perpetual, were already UK based.
