There are some perennial issues that have been the subject of endless repetition for many years.

Similarly, Chávez is clearly supporting Daniel Ortega, the perennial Sandinista presidential candidate in Nicaragua, and Shafick Handal, the equally perennial FMLN candidate in El Salvador. His former ambassador to Mexico participated openly and vociferously in campaign events for Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador s presidential campaign.

They will enter perennial gardens with streams of water and all they wish. Thus will the pious and devout be rewarded.

They will enter perennial gardens with streams of water and all they wish. Thus will the pious and devout be rewarded.

Over the years, our resolution has indeed acquired the character of a hardy perennial , in the wise words of Dag Hammarskjöld, thus establishing important norms.

He pleaded with the Organization to continue to adapt and equip itself to deal with the perennial problems and new manifestations of human insecurity and underdevelopment.

It is also imperative that the three committees study jointly and carefully the root causes of the perennial problems of non reporting and of reporting fatigue.

These should include information on the percentage ground cover for organic litter and for annual and perennial vegetation, as well as estimates of species composition and above ground biomass.

The causes of insecurity are several and complex terrorist and extremist elements, criminal activity and the illicit production and trafficking of drugs, besides the perennial problems of poverty, unemployment and underdevelopment.

Yet neither should we underestimate the difficulties ahead, as we are quite familiar with the fact that the non implementation of agreements had become a perennial state of play in Côte d'Ivoire.

In view of the perennial nature of the requirement for a subvention to UNIDIR, necessary provisions for this purpose have always been made in the proposed programme budget and subsequently appropriated for each biennium.

We urged the United Nations to continue to adapt and equip itself to deal with the perennial problems of human insecurity and underdevelopment and, in particular, the new manifestations of those problems, namely, terrorism and extreme poverty.

Indeed, the current budget war seems to be reopening old divisions about America s view of itself and the world. The outcome is far from certain, but even isolationism, a perennial American malady, seems to be making a comeback.

Similarly, threatening North Korea with isolation, the hardy perennial of diplomatic pressuring, does not work, because isolation is exactly what the North Koreans want. What the international community needs to do is to come together on a program of action aimed at producing a result.

Farmers were digging a pit in the riverbed, down to the water table approximately two meters below ground level. They explained that until recently this was a perennial river one that flows throughout the year but now the river stops flowing during the dry season.

Friendship, altruism, compassion, service all the perennial truths that we talked about that are part of all religion and all cultures once you stop trying to see the differences, these are the things in our own self interest, because they free us from our suffering and from disease.

For example, while Americans could have supported more aggressive fuel economy standards or increased federal taxes on energy, they didn t. Under the illusion that lifestyles revolving around cheap oil and big cars were America s perennial right, fuel economy standards languished for decades, and politicians avoided the t word like the plague.

Then, of course, there is Tibet, perhaps China s greatest domestic security concern, and also a perennial source of tension with India, owing to territorial disputes. China s recent anger over a visit by the Dalai Lama to the Tawang monastery in Arunachal Pradesh, Indian territory claimed by China, suggests just how potent this issue remains.

There is a perennial temptation to focus on even to overemphasize the short term, tactical drivers of commodity price movements, at the expense of giving longer term, structural factors their due. While short term factors for example, political instability, weather related disruptions, and speculative activity are important determinants of prices, they tell only part of the story.

For almost two decades, Taiwan s presidential elections have attracted global attention not only for the robustness of Taiwan s democratic culture, but also for the perennial question of whether the winner would seek formal independence for Taiwan. This time, Tsai Ing wen, the woman nominated by the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), mounted a late charge on the Kuomintang incumbent, Ma Ying jeou.

In East Asia, the world s most dynamic and dominant region in terms of future global economic development, confrontation is escalating between the key powers China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan over border issues, territorial claims, prestige, and unfinished historical business. Add to this the perennial crisis on the Korean peninsula and the Taiwan conflict, which could flare up again anytime.

This cozy relationship created a moral hazard in Pakistan, as the generous flow of US aid insulated the government and military from any sense of urgency about economic reform some foreign friend would always rescue the country from its perennial shortage of cash. So far, that friend has been America, but the US could well pull out of Pakistan for the fourth time in the countries turbulent relationship a threat that several influential figures in the US Congress have already made.