However, in Bowie's case, whether or not you liked his music or felt notably saddened by his death, it is certainly difficult to doubt that his achievements were genuine, significant and lasting.
Just 18 months after its launch, the Social Cash Transfer pilot project is making a significant, and lasting, difference in the lives of those children and families participating.
On September 29, Billboard.com announced that Rush would also receive the 2010 Legends of Live award for significant and lasting contributions to live music and the art of performing live and reaching fans through the concert experience.
America has done nothing significant and lasting to change the current state we live in.
Perceptions of celebrity culture are being altered sufficiently to make a significant and lasting commercial impact.
Poverty experts called the findings encouraging because few interventions with low-income teenagers have shown significant and lasting effects.
To the Editor: Child psychiatric disorders are very real illnesses with significant and lasting consequences.
The question lingers: Will these efforts yield significant and lasting change?
But was it really that Mr. Giuliani underwent significant and lasting changes in personality over the course of his eight-year tenure?
A year into the Katine project, is it on course to make a significant and lasting change for the people of the area?
"Contrary to defendants' argument, increased educational resources, if properly deployed, can have a significant and lasting effect on student performance," Justice DeGrasse wrote.
