And an era when kids assume that they need to be permanently "online", or in performance mode, also seems a place that breeds very shallow conversations.
The data are the latest to show that while family structure seems to have permanently changed, public policy, workplace structure and mores have not seemed to adjust to a norm in which both parents work.
Some students who took the International English Language Testing System exam in August and September have had their results "withheld permanently", sending a strong signal that the examiners intend to stamp out cheating, some senior language tutors said.
His gaze was permanently fixed on the huge American flag on the stock exchange.
The truth is, nothing can be done to permanently eliminate cellulite--not even liposuction.
Australian cat owners could have to keep their pets indoors permanently under a '24-hour cat curfew' proposed by the government.
Williams as anchor, will take on the position permanently, one person said.
The growth rate of migrants living permanently in Beijing has seen a rapid decline in recent years from 64.
"When implemented, this new law will permanently bring clean air to all of Beijing's indoor public places - in doing so, protecting Beijing's more than 20 million residents from the deadly effects of exposure to toxic second-hand smoke," said its representative in China, Dr Bernhard Schwartlander.
One of these paintings, dubbed 'The Three Fortunes', will remain permanently on show at the conservation center.
1 billion teenagers and young adults are at risk of permanently damaging their hearing by listening to "too much, too loudly".
Mary Jane Minkin, clinical professor of ob-gyn at Yale School of Medicine, told Women's Health: ••《》: 'Medically, it doesn't make sense that cinching your waist tightly will make it permanently smaller.
Edward Bloomer, astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, says: 'Even thick cloud cover is transitory, and even a very short exposure to unfiltered sunlight can permanently damage your vision.
Imagine your lips are permanently sealed until you're asked a question or the conversation is directed to you.
This is left over from the old tradition of handfasting, wherein the hands of the bride and groom would be tied together with a length of ribbon to symbolize that their lives were fastened together permanently.
The digital revolution hadn't brutally "disrupted" whole economic sectors and made their work forces permanently insecure.
By inducing a habit with cash payments, and then reinforcing that habit with self-funded payments, the researchers were able to permanently change workout habits for at least some people.
"We need to permanently track this asteroid, because even a small mistake in calculations could have serious consequences," he said.
The one-street town is mostly abandoned, its shops and homes permanently shuttered.
If it seems you are permanently single while everyone else around you is in a relationship, blame your DNA.
