permanence

As their escape ship pulls into New York harbor, Bertie ponders the permanence of his pain.

This city will never be the same, insofar as our sense of safety, our illusions of permanence and so on, are gone.

In an odd way, I count myself lucky to be disabused so forcefully of any fantasies of material permanence while I’m still in the middle of my life.

Lebanon says the Israeli permanence in Lebanese territory and its attacks are violations of the deal.

Lebanon's government says those attacks, and the permanence of Israeli soldiers in five locations in southern Lebanon, constitute violations of the truce.