(1) Our office is in a permanent state of chaos.

(2) I live in Ridgefield in a permanent state of dread.

(3) A permanent state of war with the community was untenable, but the law must be enforced.

(4) Depression should not be a permanent state, but recovery takes time.

(5) In fact, he's in a pretty permanent state of rage about everything.

(6) My fear is that it's in a permanent state of sideways movement.

(7) Yet what most people experience is not a permanent state of happiness.

(8) Can I deactivate someday, or is this a permanent state of being?

(9) A permanent state of cold war was impossible to sustain.

(10) Temperature becomes uniform by heat conduction until finally a permanent state is reached.

(11) Only children had the energy for play, the adults were in a permanent state of weariness.

(12) Nobody was allowed in Judy's bedroom to tidy up, so it was in a permanent state of chaos.

(13) Further, fragmentation is encouraged in many states by the relative transience of the political authority compared with the permanent state administration.

(14) Even after two Jacobite invasions had failed the Highlands remained in a more or less permanent state of lawlessness.

(15) For many people the only possible escape from their permanent state of poverty and malnourishment is to emigrate.