Sentence examples for was already permanent from inspiring English sources

Sir Bob, who was already permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), took the role as head of the civil service at that time.

However, it should be noted that the national concern about education in general and in this field is already permanent, which in itself represents good progress as a country.

The Imperial War Graves Commission was already providing permanent resting places for a few of the 1,104,890 imperial dead when the ceremony took place.

Alvarez said he was already looking for a permanent replacement for Bielema.

But friends and associates have no doubt that when Mr. Levy put his name forward as interim chancellor in January, he was already angling for the permanent job.

Even though he was only in his 20s, his face was already forged in the permanent weariness of an endless drug hustle, with bloodshot eyes and pupils that looked like pinpricks.

The current 10-page UN draft sanctions resolution was already diluted to death by permanent members Russia and China - and whatever bellicose language remains will be further shot down at the Security Council by non-permanent members Brazil, Turkey and Lebanon (without unanimity at the Security Council new sanctions are for all practical purposes dead).

"There's already a permanent 'gun show' on the Internet".

In the longer term a chronic crisis is already creating permanent damage: prolonged economic stagnation and depression in deficit countries, loss of confidence in the credibility of governments and the future of the euro, and increasingly poisonous politics.

But with DOMA out of the way, lawyers said, no large obstacles remain in immigration law to prevent American citizens, and also immigrants who are already legal permanent residents, from starting to apply for green cards for their same-sex spouses.

They were already legal permanent non-citizen residents with green cards, as required for joining the armed forces.