perennial problem• Did the women of the locality - and/or the imagination - constitute a perennial problem?• His answer touched the perennial problems and pretensions of politicians.• Then came the perennial problem - do I put the neckband on next, or the front bands.• Alison MacDonald on the perennial problem of child care.• But the perennial problem of providing for other children remained.• The first was the perennial problem of the two-front war.• Money and how to get hold of it were the perennial problems that refused to go away.• Crying Crying is a perennial problem with young children from babyhood on.