Shō Nei swore to pass on these oaths to his descendants, further ensuring the relative permanence of the vassal-lord relationship into which Ryūkyū had been entered with Satsuma.

Even the cavemen of 8,000 years ago, who painted the Lascaux walls, believed in the relative permanence of things.

But there is another group of homeless, people who cluster together for comfort, safety and support, people who create makeshift communities of relative permanence.

If he's right, then I've destroyed that fun for my "Up" characters by putting their past into the relative permanence of celluloid.

Emperor Fasilides broke with this tradition of progressing through the territories, and founded the city of Gondar as his capital; its relative permanence makes the city historically important.

The visible link with the past that old buildings give is important both as a fascinating insight into history and as an expression of the relative permanence of civilized society.

Gardening at rental properties carries its own challenges, like negotiating with landlords and reconciling your own transience with the relative permanence of the trees you plant.

The archive's relative permanence, combined with the ability to search messages by author, raised concerns about privacy and confirmed oft-repeated past admonishments that posters should be cautious in discussing themselves and others.

Since geography was "the most fundamentally conditioning factor because of its relative permanence," it was of primary relevance in analyzing a state's potential foreign policy.

The relative permanence of continental crust contrasts with the short life of oceanic crust.