Left to themselves, the creative forces in society will always deliver, but keeping them reasonably free to do so is a perpetual, grinding battle.
As British historian Paul Johnson has written, "Left to themselves, the creative forces in society will always deliver, but keeping them reasonably free to do so is a perpetual, grinding battle.
Perpetual war, grinding poverty and a time bomb of overpopulation resulting in millions of refugees crossing continents.
India, Pakistan and China together contribute 600 million illiterate people to the world in a perpetual cycle of grinding poverty.
In Congress, Ms. Maloney sometimes seems to be in perpetual motion, presiding over hearings and grinding out bills, including one that Mr. Obama recently signed providing additional protections for credit card holders.
If you're not living with perpetual roommates or pulling in six figures, grinding away to barely pay rent in Toronto or Vancouver is likely your new normal.
As she descends into the pit of depression, the world is a series of wrong reverberations: her mother's face is a perpetual accusation, the wheeling of a baby carriage underneath her window a grinding irritation.
That devaluation, if not squandered in a lurch towards hyperinflation, could deliver Greece from its current misery of perpetual recession by letting it regain lost competitiveness at a stroke, rather than by grinding down domestic costs over several years.
Her family's grinding poverty, her lack of education or interest in a career and her perpetual cheerfulness in the face of these things.
Louisiana and Illinois were perpetual leaders.
