short-lasting

More worrisome than the short-lasting shots of cold, though promising in terms of keeping drought conditions in check, is the potential for rain to dampen at least part of the coming weekend.

Forecast: Warmer Wednesday; weekend rain? 2011

For stability based solely on naked power is short-lasting.

Sohrab Ahmari: How an Arab Autocrat Falls Sohrab Ahmari 2011

For stability based solely on naked power is short-lasting.

Sohrab Ahmari: How an Arab Autocrat Falls Sohrab Ahmari 2011

For stability based solely on naked power is short-lasting.

Sohrab Ahmari: How an Arab Autocrat Falls Sohrab Ahmari 2011

Because its effects are short-lasting, the medics may also simply have been using it to make sure Olivia remained inert while they performed the lumbar puncture.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

But for many, short-lasting mild stimulants like coffee and Red Bull are not enough.

Bill Piper: Happy Meth Awareness Day 2008

Any declines this month have been minor and short-lasting.

Dollar Correction Is Due, 2008

For him, unified consciousness of ˜self™ is simply a short-lasting

The Unity of Consciousness Brook, Andrew 2006

The impact of flushing canals on snail populations is not based on the drag force effect, but rather on turbulent and fleeting, short-lasting shear stresses along the transition zone of various embankment vegetation and river bed sediments.

Chapter 6 1996

Local staples tend to make unattractive, short-lasting, poorrising breads that the public shuns.

Chapter 25 1996