What is "enduring"

Usage examples of "enduring".

His pastorate would be the longest in the annals of the parish, lasting forty-five years, and the friendship between Adams and Wibird, equally enduring.

Communist government in Afghanistan gained power in 1978 but was unable to establish enduring control.

As the personal quality of Agassiz was the greatest of his powers, and as my life was greatly influenced by my immediate and enduring affection for him, I am tempted to set forth some incidents which show that my swift devotion to my new-found master was not due to the accidents of the situation, or to any boyish fancy.

Wellness Inn of Big Sur, enduring a voice mailmessage about seaweed wrap and Ayurvedic massage and waiting for a human voice.

But what if they had said, We are not going to spoil our fine churches by sticking props all around them, and had resorted to concealed bedplates and invisible rods of iron, would their structures have been better or nobler or more enduring?

The reason these objects had been deposited in lakes and bogs remained shrouded in mystery, the enduring secret of a people without written language.

Dodge back and forth through the social and commercial strata, snuffling the flavors of change, the plastic aromas of the new Florida superimposed on the Spanish moss, the rain-sounds of the night peepers in the marsh, the sea smell of low tides, creak of bamboo in light winds, fright cry of the cruising night birds, tiny sirens of the mosquitoes, faraway flicker of lightning silhouetting the circus parade of thunderheads on the Gulf horizon-superimposed on all these old enduring things, known when only Caloosas made their shell mounds and slipped through the sawgrass in their dugouts.

We went out and explored the city in the fading light of evening, drifting the gray Dodge back and forth through the social and commercial strata, snuffling the flavors of change, the plastic aromas of the new Florida superimposed on the Spanish moss, the rain-sounds of the night peepers in the marsh, the sea smell of low tides, creak of bamboo in light winds, fright cry of the cruising night birds, tiny sirens of the mosquitoes, faraway flicker of lightning silhouetting the circus parade of thunderheads on the Gulf horizon-superimposed on all these old enduring things, known when only Caloosas made their shell mounds and slipped through the sawgrass in their dugouts.

Indeed, this reaffirmation of his enduring life history depended in many ways on the emergence of a new generation of Romantic liberals who defended the legacy of the French Revolution in their publications, plotted for political changes in organizations such as the Carbonari, advocated liberty for every European nationality, and looked for symbolic figures to represent their ideas and their goals.

The Grand National was a great exciting lottery, but the Cheltenham Gold Cup sorted out the true enduring stars.

Fragments like the Book of Enoch and the Claviculae of Solomon well illustrate the power of the weird over the ancient Eastern mind, and upon such things were based enduring systems and traditions whose echoes extend obscurely even to the present time.

It endured the indignity of being leashed with the air of a prisoner enduring interrogation from the Deutsche or some equally fierce Big Uglies.

And this second Tavis, the boy enduring a Fating that exceeded his worst fears, cried out at what he saw in those dark blue eyes.

In fact, Fatso is enduring no little suffering from the heat, standing there just because he is too kindhearted to move.

He strove to implant this vision in the minds of Frankenstein and the others, and kept coming back again and again to the specification that all the workers ultimately produced must not only be docile, strong, and enduring, but should be able to subsist, like swine or goats, on acorns and other inexpensive roughage, with now and then a handful of berries as reward for some particularly difficult labor.