It would," said Gannel, "but not if we wanted it to endure centuries- millennia-without change.

A faith that endured centuries of unfathomable repression is collapsing in just a couple of generations.

I've endured centuries that passed in the blink of an eye as if I were barely breathing.

Inequality in America has been an extremely long-standing issue, particularly for those who have had to endure centuries of poverty, injustice and oppression.

Remember that the Bajorans endured centuries of petty political and religious squabbling.

London's pagan cultures have endured centuries of repression and distillation.

They had endured centuries of pain, the crime against them unrevenged.

She shares the chip-on-the-shoulder, radical feminist view that American women have endured centuries of oppression and mistreatment from men.

Many of the trees had been cut down, leaving gaps in a living sculpture that had been planted to endure centuries.

He looked like he had endured centuries of hurt.