Sentences with phrase «permanent as the prophets»

Then the present downturn will not turn out to have been as deep or as permanent as the prophets of gloom had said.

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It can also be referred to as the prophetic premise, since it was the biblical prophets who first taught that «no work of man's hand or brain should ever be regarded as absolute, as permanent, as definitive» (Garaudy, 1:68).