Unfortunately, many intolerant secularists and defiant believers see perpetual conflict as the only way forward.

Whereas individual selection promotes selfishness, selection at the level of groups promotes altruism and co-operation, leaving humans 'enmeshed in perpetual conflict'.

Mutual agreement results in the beauty of good order, while perpetual conflict necessarily produces confusion and savage barbarity.

They reject chauvinism, jingoism and militarism, and want humans to live in peace rather than perpetual conflict.

It's in perpetual conflict with itself.

It's just part of the perpetual cycle of public opinion on architecture and the arts.

This idea of life as a perpetual cycle seems particularly comforting in a recession.

They are not provided with fair and equal access to educational resources, resulting in high unemployment, and the perpetual cycle of poverty that keeps them from social mobility.

The fish living in the perpetual darkness can reach 150 years old and mature late, making a sustainable harvest difficult.

The perpetual darkness was barely tolerable.

The vivid orange colour and elongated body may delight the human eye, but the eel lives its life entirely unobserved, in the perpetual darkness of deep oceans.

There was a very odd eclipse occurring that kept one side of the planet in perpetual darkness and the other side in continual light.

They are almost blind due to the perpetual darkness of the ravines, so they used long tendils on their heads to sense objects or prey.

A climate of fear pervades institutions, and especially government, amid the perpetual quest to attribute blame for human misfortunes.

You seem to be on a perpetual quest for knowledge, soaking up information like a sponge.

And as for the perpetual quest for food, we now know that energy to sustain life on the deep sea floor comes from two quite different sources.

This perpetual state of jittery alertness has direct consequences on every cell in our body.

The programme note told us that this immense orchestral kaleidoscope used 'polyrhythmic streams', and layers of material in a perpetual state of flux.

I can't be in a perpetual state of looking-it's too draining.

Our household was in a perpetual state of crisis.

He was stuck in a perpetual state of flux between gratitude and repulsion, something that surely fed his understated, but no less fierce, creative drive.

Exactly what they arm themselves with in the perpetual struggle for law and order will remain a topic of fierce debate.

The fanatic feels fulfilled only in a perpetual struggle for power and change.

His pastorate of three years was almost entirely taken up with the perpetual struggles with the parish debt.