"What member states find most irritating is this perennial argument that the United States is a special case, that rules are for everybody else," one diplomat said.

One of the perennial arguments surrounding the Kennedy Center is whether it should house a national theater company.

It's a perennial argument.

There was no point in resurrecting the perennial argument about their careers.

The problems with the underwriting association have captured public attention and pushed to the side the perennial argument over who is chiefly responsible for high insurance premiums.

With no flood wall (though there are perennial arguments about whether to build one), the city preserves an unusual eye-level river view.

The perennial argument for dismantling the Department of Energy doesn't succeed because it doesn't make sense.

A perennial argument in a part of the world that usually gets plenty of rain is whether an irrigation system is worth it.

On a grander scale this is the perennial argument about whether ideologies follow social changes or create them.

But this perennial argument, a type of materialist monism, is not a scientific but a philosophic one and scarcely without many intelligent critics.