The idea of Apple and Samsung in all-out war for smartphone supremacy has always been a flawed one for one central reason: If this were a true fight to the death, one side wouldn't perpetually supply the other one with key materiel.
Experiences of emotional trauma become freeze-framed into an eternal present in which we remain forever trapped, or to which we are condemned to be perpetually returned through the portkeys supplied by life's slings and arrows.
Within Australia nursing unions are pursuing mandated nurse patient ratios to safeguard patient outcomes and protect their members in healthcare systems where demand perpetually exceeds supply.
Whatever their choices, the fair brings a sense of independence, freedom and normality to a place where these critical qualities are in perpetually short supply.
Among the other characters: the gabby Johnnypateenmike, who goes about Inishmaan announcing the latest news in return for food and drink; Helen, a pretty, perpetually ill-tempered teen-ager, who has a dirty mouth and loose morals, and Mammy, Johnny's ancient mother, whose son keeps her supplied with liquor in hopes she will die at the earliest possible moment.
But despite a large parliamentary majority, Mr Sharif remains perpetually worried about being outflanked, not least by Imran Khan, a popular politician and former cricketer who reacted to Mr Mehsud's killing by threatening to stop NATO from using Pakistan to supply its troops in Afghanistan.
Within the UK's rapidly growing digital industries, demand for developers is always high, yet the supply is perpetually low.
We tend to make rights of things we assume to be in short supply, things perpetually under threat.
During this year of perpetually dirty fingernails and a never-ending supply of North Atlantic mud to analyze, I realized that my enthusiasm for learning about how the Earth worked had been replaced by a fixation with details and a narrow focus on one particular research topic-not to mention a literal distaste for sedimentary rocks.
While our supply of moral outrage is perpetually lacking for the Muslim world, we spare no opportunity to set loose our virtuous fury within the West.
