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persistent

If someone or something is persistent, they continue and do not give up quickly. She has had a persistent cough for weeks. There was a persistent knocking on the door. Many youth who spend time in jail actually become persistent offenders. There have been persistent rumors for years. ing past maturity without falling off. Pine cones have persistent scales.

persistent

(= relentless) never-ceasing the relentless beat of the drums (= haunting) continually recurring to the mind haunting memories the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty — Claudia Cassidy retained; not shed persistent leaves remain attached past maturity the persistent gills of fishes (= dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding) stubbornly unyielding dogged persistence dour determination the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it — T.S.Eliot men tenacious of opinion

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Simple sentences

You're persistent, aren't you?
How persistent you are!
I have a persistent cough.
Tom is persistent.
Tom is very persistent.
As the trees crave tranquility in the ever-persistent wind, the child craves the care of its ever-absent parents.
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
I have a persistent pain here.
His persistent efforts resulted in failure.
Any problem can be solved if you are persistent and patient.
Tom was persistent.
I can be very persistent.
He was very persistent.
I think Tom is persistent.
Tom is very persistent, isn't he?
Tom is persistent, isn't he?

Movie subtitles

I hate persistent people.
Doctors assigned the plague a medical name, but a persistent rumor circulated among the people that a vampire was the cause of the scourge.
But your persistent meddling made it necessary.
Bobby, don't be so persistent.
But you are a persistent man, Neale.
Except that I love you. How would you diagnose a pain in the right upper quadrant? A pain that is persistent?
They're persistent little traitors to everything this country stands for.
Why are you so persistent?
Carl, you're so persistent.
Are you persistent too?
Well, he's remarkably persistent, sir.
But he was persistent?
Your Majesty, it's that persistent Cromwell woman again.
I protest to the defence attorney's persistent attacks on the motives of the prosecution.
You're persistent. I'll give you that.
They were the most persistent tigers I've ever seen.
I think you're very absurd, very persistent and.
Lately, they've become more persistent, more pointed.
A pain that is persistent?
Persistent beggar, wasn't he?
It isn't achieved except through persistent action during peacetime.
A most persistent breed, these Americans.
There never was such a persistent girl!
Sorry, Your Majesty, to be so persistent, but it is a-Money?
You're persistent!
You're more persistent than I thought.
Persistent fellows, sir.
You're very persistent!
Are you always so persistent?
But persistent.
The dye is persistent. I did my best.
After persistent battles, our troops left the towns of Hovocherkask and Rostov.
Persistent, aren't you?
But she's persistent.
You aren't very persistent, Mr. Sulu.
The persistent, single-minded fixation on one idea.
I must warn you, the men in my family are very persistent.
You are a very persistent fellow, Mr. Spock.

News and current affairs

Europe's persistent reluctance puts the Turks in a quandary.
Most Americans are, after all, preoccupied with the US economy's sluggish growth and persistent high unemployment.
This persistent acceleration in American productivity growth has, however, created a massive political problem for President George W. Bush.
The persistent loss in competitiveness over the past decade is one reason why the crisis is hitting some southern European EMU countries such as Spain and Italy so hard.
More people think their lives are improving, while others are doing worse, probably because of journalists' persistent bias in favor of bad news.
This implies that closing the persistent digital divide between the world's developed and developing regions could give a big boost to development.
Not only may the future be less radiant, but the adjustments that will be required once reality sets in could set off a nastier recession and a more persistent slowing of the economy than anything predicted today.
The UN Environment Program (UNEP) is embarked on a misguided campaign to ban the pesticide DDT under its Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Framework Convention.
Though policy alternates between supply-side and neo-Keynesian enthusiasm, the one persistent reality is a significant decline of investment as a share of national income in most high-income countries in recent years.
Neither neo-Keynesians nor supply-siders focus on the true remedies for this persistent drop in investment spending.
But, with high and persistent levels of unemployment in the United States, there is a real question about the nature of the problem: is aggregate demand too low, or are there problems with supply?
Moreover, persistent effort to blame everything bad in Argentina on Menem's administration boomeranged: people viewed it as a smokescreen for a lack of leadership.
Children become trapped in a persistent generational cycle of poverty, despite the society's general affluence.
When John Maynard Keynes talked of persistent under-employment, he did not mean that, following a big shock, economies stay frozen at one unchanging level of depressed activity.
Some Western countries - such as Greece - had fragile government accounts from the outset and tipped quickly into persistent crisis mode.
In fact, only the UK is visibly opting for a more coordinated and direct way to counter the persistent shortfalls stemming from the private part of the credit crisis.
Under this scenario, any country that runs persistent, large current account balances must look forward to a hard landing and a correction in the value of its currency.
Countries with persistent structural current-account deficits will incur additional external-financing costs, and eventually will reach the limits of leverage.
That growth should give President Putin - if he is patient and persistent - leeway to tackle the longer term reforms his country needs if it is to become the powerful state he seeks it to be.
The story of the US is, indeed, one of two economies. There is a smaller one that is slowly recovering and a larger one that is still in a deep and persistent downturn.
While North Korea's nuclear arsenal is much smaller, persistent doubts about the regime's sustainability make it a matter of grave concern.
But corruption remains a profound and persistent threat to this effort, and if the government cannot reduce it significantly - especially among its anti-drug forces - a return to tolerance is inevitable.
According to this view, British ambivalence toward Europe may reflect a persistent inability to leave behind the days of imperial grandeur.
Such a reformed right's opposition to Bachelet will probably focus on her efforts to modify the country's neo-liberal model as she tackles the country's persistent knots of poverty and inequality.
Such an unfair distribution of wealth based on economic exploitation, social injustice and political exclusion has caused silent but persistent resistance by Chinese peasants.
This is why Russians prefer revolutions: it is easier to fix the blame on someone for the world's imperfections than bring about change in a steady, persistent way.

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