"All such work was called 'dead-work,' " Upton Sinclair explained in his 1917 novel, "King Coal," "and it was the cause of unceasing war".
Ten years of unceasing war has caused tragic loss of life and pain to many, including the men and women who serve in our armed forces, and sent our national borrowing soaring to dangerous levels, much of the debt held by foreign nations like China whose interests are not necessarily the same as ours.
There is also, at bottom, the Jewish psyche shaped by history: the centuries of persecution culminating in the Holocaust, the triumph of the creation of Israel in 1948 and the immediate invasions by Arab neighbours to eradicate it and the unceasing rejectionism, wars and attacks since then.
In 1568, after repeated small revolts, a civil war of unceasing savagery erupted.
Mr. Blair's speech appeared to be another attempt to respond to the unceasing criticism of the war that has arisen in Parliament and in the news media.
Indeed, much of Sayf al-Dawla's reputation stems from his unceasing, though ultimately unsuccessful war with the Empire.
He had made himself Italy's longest-serving post-war leader by purveying unceasing optimism to an electorate naturally inclined to look on the bright side.
Their analysis, as they claim, goes some way to explaining "the wide divergence of opinion about the wisdom of the Iraq war".In a way, though, that unceasing argument is beside the point.
Despite claims by peacekeepers that ethnic violence is slowly decreasing, the incident exposed the unceasing desire for revenge among the ethnic Albanians who suffered at Serbian hands during the war.
Contemporary supporters of liberalism are often subject, I think, to what I call "everyday Fukuyama-ism" — the idea, explicitly stated or not, that the end of the Cold War really signaled the end of history, and that we can only look forward to the unceasing rise of Western-style liberal-democratic capitalism.
In these very interesting times of the 21st century, the era of serial wars, geopolitical turmoil, the possible use by terrorists of weapons of mass destruction, crucial deterioration of ecology, and unceasing economic crises!
