He betrays an almost aggressive competitive streak, especially when it comes to how many books he sells, and he also rails against being thought of as nice (a perennial complaint).

It's deeper also than the perennial complaint of lack of resources.

Despite perennial complaints, however, unfigured basses persisted right through the eighteenth century.

And what of the perennial debate about whether leaders are made or born?

The story rekindles the perennial debate about whether an artificial intelligence could acquire what we call consciousness.

The incident, however, restarted the perennial debate about batsmen 'walking'.

During his time in office, as the issue of provincial status for the territories, drawing the borders particularly became a perennial debate.

No garden regardless of size should be without this hardy perennial plant.

Cut them hard back as you would any other perennial plant.

An extremely stately tall perennial plant that can make a statement in a sunny border and hold its decayed form well into the winter.

This perennial plant produces stems up to 50 centimeters tall, singly or in pairs, from a rhizome.

Depending on where it grows it may present as an annual, biennial or perennial plant.

It can be a perennial problem for millions of gardeners - planting seeds that never grow.

We're even getting to grips with the perennial problem of what to wear on our feet.

The perennial problem of finding and paying for goodquality schooling makes the move even more enticing.

This, they told me again, had been a perennial problem.

It was burdened with the perennial problem of re-creating recent events.

Concerns over the company's accounting are a perennial theme.

I wonder where this perennial theme comes from.

And that gap between appearance and reality has been a perennial theme of philosophical argument from that time.

A perennial theme was the rescue of a lady from the imperiling monster, a theme that would remain throughout the romances of the medieval era.

Many of his perennial themes are here: the treatment of soldiers and veterans, our relationship to the environment, the value of courage, the importance of community.