When critics suggested this would mean perpetual war between Jews and Arabs, Kahane answered, " There will be a perpetual war.

The Bible paints the Philistines as the main enemy of the Israelites prior to the rise of Assyria in the 8th century BC, with a state of almost perpetual war between the two peoples.

In 1452, Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas, granting the kings of Spain and Portugal the right to reduce any " Saracens, pagans and any other unbelievers " to perpetual slavery, legitimizing the slave trade as a result of war.

The United States ' response was " very different but just as deep an instinctual reaction ... the United States have an almost neurotic sense of vulnerability ... its two coastlines, its two theatres, its two navies are separated by the entire length of the New World ... she lives with ... the nightmare of having one day to fight a decisive sea battle without the benefit of concentration, the perpetual spectre of naval ' war on two fronts '.

Rival states were in perpetual war.

Life is a perpetual struggle in war, as in peace ... That struggle cannot be avoided.

Said denial, practised in each state, and the mutual vilification of the enemy state, permits perpetual war among them.

* The Arab-Israeli Conflict has been a perpetual war that began with the battle of Tel Hai in 1920 before the creation of Israel in 1948.

Syria is in a perpetual state of war with Israel for the stated reason that Israel expropriated Syria of the Golan Heights in 1967 following its victory in the 6-Day War.

* The Colombian armed conflict ( 1964 – present ) is a complex perpetual war between the following three factions: ( 1 ) the Colombian government, which is the formal nation of Colombia represented by the vast majority of its society ( rural and urban, poor and rich ), the Colombian politicians, business interests, and military ; ( 2 ) the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which in Spanish is " Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia ", is abbreviated FARC, and claims to represent rural poor Colombian people, especially by appealing to Marxism – Leninism ; and ( 3 ) the National Liberation Army, which in Spanish is " Ejército de Liberación Nacional ", is abbreviated ELN, and, like FARC, also claims to be representing rural poor people, but unlike FARC, emphasizes Liberation theology more than Marxist — Leninism.

British journalist Robert Fisk is among the critics of Western policies in the Middle East and argues that recent Western conflicts against the Middle East after the end of the Cold War have been part of a new perpetual war.

Critics have used the term " perpetual war " in reference to non-military " wars ", such as the " War on Drugs ", " War on Poverty ", " War on Cancer ", Lou Dobbs's " War on the Middle Class ", or the " War on Terrorism " or Bill O ' Reilly's " War on Christmas ".

Some analysts, such as Noam Chomsky, posit that a state of perpetual war is an aid to ( and is promoted by ) the powerful members of dominant political and economic classes, helping maintain their positions of economic and political superiority.

Some people, such as the following authors, have inferred, insinuated, or suggested that entering a state of perpetual war becomes progressively easier in a modern democratic republic, such as the United States, due to the development of a relationship network between people who wield political and economic power also owning capital in companies that financially profit from war, lobby for war, and influence public opinion of war through influence of Mass media outlets that control the presentation for the causes of war, the effects of war, and the Censorship of war: ( 1 ) " The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group " ( 2004 )" by Dan Briody ; ( 2 ) " The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It " ( 2011 ) an anthology by nine authors who are Pierre M. Sprey, George Wilson, Franklin C. Spinney, Bruce I. Gudmundsson, Col. G. I. Wilson, Col. Chet Richards, Andrew Cockburn, Thomas Christie, and Winslow T. Wheeler ; ( 3 ) " Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex " ( 2010 ), by William D. Hartung ; ( 4 ) " Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda ( 2002 ), by Noam Chomsky ; and ( 5 ) " Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media " ( 2002 ), by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky.

With the advent of perpetual war, communities have begun to construct War Memorials with names of the dead while the wars are ongoing.

When a family buys a home the title is subject to a perpetual easement to Tri-State.

The result is that the State Department's perpetual position before Congress is the resigned pose of the whipping boy who expects to be kicked whenever the master has had a dyspeptic outing with his wife.

The Vipava Valley, through which Alboin led the Lombards into ItalyAs a precautionary move Alboin strengthened his alliance with the Avars, signing what Paul calls a foedus perpetuum (" perpetual treaty ") and what is referred to in the 9th-century Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani as a pactum et foedus amicitiae (" pact and treaty of friendship "), adding that the treaty was put down on paper.

Armfeldt's country estate is bathed in the golden glow of perpetual summer sunset at this high latitude (" Night Waltz One and Two ").

It is said that at this time he instituted a perpetual service of praise, known as laus perennis, by which choir succeeded choir, both day and night ( Montalembert, Monks of the West II, 405 ).

“ A corporation is described to be a person in a political capacity created by the law, to endure in perpetual succession .” Americans in the 1790s knew of a variety of corporations established for various purposes, including those of commerce, education, and religion.

Two of the most popular of the period were of Pomona ( goddess of orchards ) as a metaphor for Agriculture, and Diana, representing Commerce, which is a perpetual hunt for advantage and profits.

Although " prescriptions " against the possibly deleterious consequences of these kinds of encounters vary, from Kierkegaard's religious " stage " to Camus ' insistence on persevering in spite of absurdity, the concern with helping people avoid living their lives in ways that put them in the perpetual danger of having everything meaningful break down is common to most existentialist philosophers.

As a result, there is no possibility of a perpetual motion system.

Implicit in this model of a perpetual annuity ( Time value of money ) is that the ' flip ' of the P / E is the discount rate appropriate to the risk of the business.

The Wanderer, found in many Gothic tales, is the epitome of isolation as he wanders the earth in perpetual exile, usually a form of divine punishment .” Below are classified different stock characters of the Gothic Novel along with examples from popular fiction in the genre.

He made several contributions to hydrodynamics and held that perpetual motion is impossible, except in celestial bodies.

The Runic calendar is a perpetual calendar based on the 19-year-long Metonic cycle.

If anyone says that it is not from the institution of Christ the Lord Himself, or by divine right that the blessed Peter has perpetual successors in the primacy over the universal Church, or that the Roman Pontiff is not the successor of blessed Peter in the same primacy, let him be anathema.

The sole exception is the region directly under a tiny geostationary moon of the internal sun ; that region as a result is under a perpetual eclipse and is known as the Land of Awful Shadow.

It is ignorance ( avidya ) of one's true self that leads to ego-consciousness, grounding one in desire and a perpetual chain of reincarnation.

A perpetual statute is one for the continuance of which there is no limited time, although it may not be expressly declared to be so.

* To rebut the accusation of denying the catholicity and indefectibility of the Church, they say that, between the death of every Pope and the election of his successor, there is a sede vacante period during which there is no visible Head of the Church, and — while mainstream Catholics hold that, according to the dogmatic constitution Pastor aeternus of the First Vatican Council, which speaks of " perpetual successors " in the pontificate, there must be, apart from such transitory periods, a perpetual presence of the Bishop of Rome, not merely of his office — that the absence of a Pope has become a long-term feature of the Church's structure.

These treaties also granted the U. S. a perpetual right of military intervention.

It also reported on a broad range of inventions including perpetual motion machines, an 1860 device for buoying vessels by Abraham Lincoln, and the universal joint which now finds place in nearly every automobile manufactured.

After the farm system era began in the 1930s, the Mud Hens were usually affiliated with the St. Louis Browns, who by then were also a perpetual second division team in the American League.

Similarly, machines which comply with both laws of thermodynamics but access energy from obscure sources are sometimes referred to as perpetual motion machines, although they also do not meet the standard criteria for the name.

He also invented a perpetual calendar called the Astro Calendar and marketed housewares based on the superellipse and Superegg.

The lower class was also very angry at the current state of affairs, such as mistreatment of workers and perpetual poverty of small peasants.

Henning ( 1948 ) also exorcised the perpetual debate about equivalency of the numerous Chinese phonetic renditions of the word Hun and the Huns known from non-Chinese sources, by demonstrating an alphabetical form of the word coded in the Chinese as Xiongnu.

Sheldon Richman, editor of the libertarian journal, The Freeman, also sees the IMF imposing “ corporatist-flavored ‘ neoliberalism ’ on the troubled countries of the world .” The policies of spending cuts coupled with tax increases give “ real market reform a bad name and set back the cause of genuine liberalism .” Paternalistic supranational bureaucrats foster “ long-term dependency, perpetual indebtedness, moral hazard, and politicization, while discrediting market reform and forestalling revolutionary liberal change .” Free market economist Richard M. Salsman goes further and argues the IMF “ is a destructive, crisis-generating global welfare agency that should be abolished .” “ In return for bailouts, countries must enact such measures as new taxes, high interest rates, nationalizations, deportations, and price controls .” Writing in Forbes, E. D. Kain sees the IMF as " paving the way for international corporations entrance into various developing nations " and creating dependency.

The doctrine of the virgin birth of Jesus is also distinct from the more general doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary which refers to her virginity for her entire life and thus subsumes the teachings on the virgin birth.

A perpetual student, also known as a professional student ( though the latter term has more than one meaning ), is a college or university attendee who re-enrolls for several years, typically more than what is necessary to obtain a given degree.

He was thus a member both of the Academy of Inscriptions and of the Academy of Sciences ; and in 1697 he became perpetual secretary to the latter, an office he held for forty-two years ; and it was in this official capacity that he wrote the Histoire du renouvellement de l ' Académie des Sciences ( Paris, 3 vols., 1708, 1717, 1722 ) containing extracts and analyses of the proceedings, and also the éloges of the members, written with great simplicity and delicacy.

There is also her never-seen son, Sheridan, a perpetual student at university, about whom Hyacinth constantly brags.

In 20th century Europe also originated another more modern approach, intended to sweep away the differences between the historical " Intellectual Property " and " Intellectual Rights " camps, allowing every creator both perpetual and temporary rights:

Her life, immortalized in the writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero and also, it is generally believed, in the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, was characterized by perpetual scandal.

Except for the presence of cauliflower ears, a prominent heart tattoo, hairy shoulders and perpetual beard stubble, bears a striking resemblance to SFC Snorkel — and has also been known to occasionally beat up on Beetle.

It is also commonly used in business and nonprofit organizations to denote perpetual status of the founder of an organization or individuals who moved the organization to new heights as a former key member on the board of directors ( e. g., chairman emeritus ; director emeritus ; president of the board emeritus ).

Origen also mentions that the Gospel of Peter, together with " the book of James ", was the source for the Church doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary.

He strongly urged the repeal of the penal laws which pressed upon the Catholics ; he condemned the restrictions imposed by Great Britain on the commerce of Ireland, and also the perpetual interference of the Irish parliament with industry by prohibitions and bounties.

He also held the offices of librarian of the Bibliothèque du Roi, and perpetual secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions.

It also results in the perpetual existence that characterizes the modern corporation.

The fiery impulse, the rolling music, the vivid illustration of thought by jets of insuppressible passion, the perpetual sustenance of passion by the implacable persistency of thought, which we recognise as the dominant and distinctive qualities of such poetry as finds vent in the utterances of Hamlet or of Timon, we recognise also in the scarcely less magnificent poetry, the scarcely less fiery sarcasm, with which Tourneur has informed the part of Vindice -- a harderheaded Hamlet, a saner and more practically savage and serious Timon.

Kelvin also asserted that it would be possible to extract limitless amounts of free energy from the ultramundane flux, and described a perpetual motion machine to accomplish this.