Social media tools have encouraged far right activists to become far more combative and – persistently – attempt to insult individuals and discredit their research.
The release of the Forrest review into Indigenous training and employment contains numerous interesting recommendations to improve Indigenous employment opportunities, but his recommendation for welfare provided through income management for all welfare holders is based on what has become a persistently false view of social security in Australia.
The former Celtic manager had also clearly not learned his lesson from Saturday, when he was sent to the stands for persistently leaving his technical area, as he raced down the touchline to protest against an offside decision shortly after Tucudean struck.
It was that judgment that was so flawed that resulted in a double-dip recession and persistently low growth – which is why he has missed his debt reduction target.
Owners who persistently ignore veterinary advice about their overweight animals could have their pets removed from their care, for failing to provide a suitable diet for their pet, as required by the Animal Welfare Acts.
The negative bowling tactics they shamelessly employed throughout the final hour, as they persistently bowled well wide of the stumps without penalty, were legitimate enough, but they will deeply offend all those who extol the game's spirit.
A close friend to many of Fiji's feminists, in 1999 he won acclaim for his landmark judgment in State v Prabha Wati, allowing the phenomenon of battered women's syndrome to be used as a defence against a charge of murder of a persistently violent husband or partner.
True, there is article 7 of the Lisbon treaty, which allows for the suspension of membership rights for states persistently violating basic European values.
Yet there could hardly be a more persistently nagging agenda item than Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Unfortunately, the Syrian opposition has persistently dismissed all proposals to hold a political dialogue.
Fancy international organizations have been persistently offering disastrous advice, counseling austerity and interest rate hikes just as the recovery, such as it is, stumbles.
