To create something meaningful rather than ephemeral: "what we make will outlast us".
But with October 31 approaching, it looks as if this Shanghai tradition will outlast the 2010 Expo.
The alternative course, and the one he put forward this week, is to slog it out. That may be realistic but it also suggests a siege that could outlast Troy's.
Their obstructionism will outlast King Abdullah's reign.
If you do not have peer envy problem, you will outlast any fashion fad.
Mr Polanski has made a perfect film of Mr Harris's intricate page-turner-one that will outlast his own present difficulties, and Mr Blair's as well.
Ideally, concessions should not outlast the crisis: temporary help for people able to stay in their houses, a brief ban on dividends in financial firms, even another fiscal package.
With an increased majority in parliament, Mr Abhisit appears better placed to outlast his predecessors.
"We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make," he said.
Can he build a bank that will outlast him?
Used in wet sites which are not infested by shipworms, such mangrove piles can outlast non-treated inland hardwoods.
Or do we want to make a difference in a way that will outlast us?
She continued to field their problems to the end of her life, though her political career as such did not long outlast a spell in Delhi’s Tihar prison in 1975, under Indira Gandhi.
Ah no, my hearers, the monument is made of hard material, but the lie it tells will outlast a million years.
None of this may outlast the election.
They might even outlast the total collapse of the high industrial system that had invented their technology.
You may not think about it much, but the applications you are designing and building today could easily outlast you.
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