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

2.  Depression should not be a permanent state, but recovery takes time.

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

4.  I live in Ridgefield in a permanent state of dread.

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

6.  ...a permanent state of tension.

7.  Temperature becomes uniform by heat conduction until finally a permanent state is reached.

8.  And the Fifties were about to vaporize into a permanent state of nostalgia.

9.  As he walks down the fairway, he barely acknowledges the gallery, his attention focused inward in what seems to be a permanent state of grace.

10.  Is this period of extremely low inflation a permanent state of affairs?