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    perpetuity


    1. Sometimes it has made this assignment or mortgage for a short period of time only, a year, or a few years, for example; and sometimes for perpetuity


    2. Before this period, the principal, so far as I have been able to observe, the only taxes, which, in order to pay the interest of a debt, had been imposed for perpetuity, were those for paying the interest of the money which had been advanced to government by the bank and East-India company, and of what it was expected would be advanced, but which was never advanced, by a projected land bank


    3. upon the capital of the greater part or the debts which had been thus funded for perpetuity, or of one-sixth of the greater part of the annuities which were paid out of the three great funds above mentioned


    4. An annuity for ninety-eight or ninety-nine years, however, is worth nearly as much as a perpetuity, and should therefore, one might think, be a fund for borrowing nearly as much


    5. The terms would be binding in perpetuity


    6. In return, it received, in perpetuity, sovereignty of the Canal Zone


    7. perpetuity, without any further action or review by Congress


    8. “May I propose an accord? My companions and I among the magic researchers of Xervia will undertake the reshaping and smoothing of the inner surface of the crater, as I suggested earlier, in return for your permission for us to use this as a place of study, at all times when it will not inconvenience you for us to do so, in perpetuity


    9. Roy Park’s universally recognized leadership in the world of communications will henceforth and in perpetuity be associated with Ithaca College and its School of Communications


    10. You’ll want to add to your skill set in perpetuity

    11. Meanwhile, the brothers continued their emotional journey home, one that seemed to last in perpetuity


    12. For a moment he just stared through his sunglasses at the turquoise blue waters; unable to comprehend the nightmare that was his life, seemingly in perpetuity


    13. It was more than obvious she was stuck in a rut of perpetuity that she thought she deserved


    14. While your next door neighbor may genuinely care for Callie the cat and all of her progeny into perpetuity, what happens when the kitty litter budget runs out? If you leave Fergus the dog to your cousin Harold, along with $10,000 to provide Fergus with the best of everything, what’s to guarantee that Harold won’t buy himself the best of everything and let Fergus eat cheap kibbles? What if there is simply nobody to leave Callie or Fergus to because you have no children and don’t trust the neighbors?


    15. a stock is owned in perpetuity until it is sold, its only source of return during that interim is the dividend


    16. Preferred stock is a perpetuity - figured by dividing the preferred dividend by the


    17. in perpetuity or at least until the regulations were


    18. Sadly though, Islam, save the ‘hereafter’, has nothing on offer for its women, who in the confines of the burka take the whims of their man as the diktats of the God, and thus subject themselves to their inimical Islamic order in perpetuity, so it seems


    19. Thus as the Decommissioned Adult of the Mohammedan wouldn’t be able to grasp even the apparent military might of the non-Islamic world of the day, so the Musalmans are ever prone to wait in perpetuity for a Saladin to appear on the Islamic horizon that only turns gloomy by the day


    20. “Unto our extinction and money's perpetuity

    21. At that moment, his Provider called him revealing to him that his eating form the tree issued from him, indeed, relying on high intention, which is, desiring the perpetuity of this state of entering into God's Beauty and wishing for the continuity of being with Al'lah


    22. I had written a letter explaining that, effective immediately, we were now going to agree to a lease for the valve in the sub-basement, and the agreement stated that the lease was to run in perpetuity, but the first payment was the exact amount of the total outstanding bill


    23. Hong Kong Island and a small area of Kowloon peninsula may, under international law have been ceded to Britain in perpetuity


    24. proud to ape and above all, the perpetuity of violence as a way of finding solutions to difficult


    25. “I have the feeling that our mental training to see the world as a stage for perpetuity of action,


    26. Reservoirs of permanent invested wealth, with only the interest ever touched; just so his family could be guaranteed to be rich forever in perpetuity, and guaranteed token, do-nothing jobs of high status; managing their father’s unearned wealth


    27. Success, he asked himself, what exactly is that? He knew that the legal designation “in perpetuity” was, in fact, a revocable condition


    28. ' The perpetuity intended is not, therefore, of the torment, but of the death following thereafter and


    29. the Bible, but held tenaciously to the eternal perpetuity of the spirit of man, and invented a diabolical fare for its chart of unseen


    30. and immediately rejected the Bible, but held tenaciously to the eternal perpetuity of the spirit of man, and invented a

    31. ' The perpetuity intended is not, therefore, of the torment, but of


    32. ' The perpetuity intended is not, therefore, of the torment, but of the death following thereafter and caused thereby


    33. Now if the second death is eternal torment, and if it depends on the will of God for its perpetuity, and he has no pleasure in it, why should he not blot them out and end it? If it is a matter of will, then consistency would demand their extinction, provided he has no pleasure in it as he affirms


    34. The Gardens of Perpetuity, which they will enter, beneath which rivers flow, where they will have whatever they desire


    35. The Gardens of Perpetuity, beneath which rivers flow, dwelling therein forever


    36. The difference is, that the one word expresses only the perpetuity of the instrument of destruction; the other denotes a final effect of some sort on the subjects of the infliction, without fixing the nature of the effect


    37. But the perpetuity of the fire, on which Christ dwells with terrible emphasis, while holding out the most awful prospect of irremediable doom to the chief offenders in the universe, does not necessarily imply the eternal duration of an object thrown into it


    38. In every age since the first, Christ witnesses as the 'Life of the world’ against this pretension to native perpetuity of being, and for the most part witnesses in vain


    39. ' The perpetuity intended is not, therefore, of the torment, but of the death following thereafter and caused thereby" Leroy Edwin Froom, The Conditionalist Faith of Our Father: The Conflict of the Ages Over the Nature and Destiny of Man, Volume one, Page 409


    40. The old woman had already made her will, and Lizaveta knew of it, and by this will she would not get a farthing; nothing but the movables, chairs and so on; all the money was left to a monastery in the province of N----, that prayers might be said for her in perpetuity

    41. That act, combined with the fact that Rosemary could not tell anyone what happened that November 1941 day at George Washington University Hospital, ensures that her medical information will remain inaccessible in perpetuity


    42. Not to inherit by right of primogeniture, gavelkind or borough English, or possess in perpetuity an extensive demesne of a sufficient number of acres, roods and perches, statute land measure (valuation 42 pounds), of grazing turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor, on the other hand, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as Rus in Urbe or Qui si sana , but to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey dwellinghouse of southerly aspect, surmounted by vane and lightning conductor, connected with the earth, with porch covered by parasitic plants (ivy or Virginia creeper), halldoor, olive green, with smart carriage finish and neat doorbrasses, stucco front with gilt tracery at eaves and gable, rising, if possible, upon a gentle eminence with agreeable prospect from balcony with stone pillar parapet over unoccupied and unoccupyable interjacent pastures and standing in 5 or 6 acres of its own ground, at such a distance from the nearest public thoroughfare as to render its houselights visible at night above and through a quickset hornbeam hedge of topiary cutting, situate at a given point not less than 1 statute mile from the periphery of the metropolis, within a time limit of not more than 15 minutes from tram or train line (e


    43. ” Thinking on her feet, she added: “Plus an acre of ground at either end, and the island in the middle – for thirtysix pounds a year, in perpetuity


    44. The old woman had already made her will, and Lizaveta knew of it, and by this will she would not get a farthing; nothing but the movables, chairs and so on; all the money was left to a monastery in the province of N——, that prayers might be said for her in perpetuity


    45. The universal expectation of this crowd was that stocks would return 10 to 20 percent yearly in perpetuity


    46. Finally, we calculate the rate of return implied by the free cash flows we expect the business to generate, in perpetuity, taking into account the investments the company needs to make to continue its growth


    47. He assumes that most of the wells have run dry and that the pipeline, processing, and storage operations increase their income by 2 percent per year in perpetuity


    48. In the second, perpetuity; the sole hope, at the distant extremity of the future, that faint light of liberty which men call death


    49. URIEL: Our service, in perpetuity


    50. • Although equity cash flows continue in perpetuity and bonds may have very long maturities, this equation applies even without long holding periods



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    Synonyms for "perpetuity"

    perpetuity sempiternity

    "perpetuity" definitions

    the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless)