The phrase "a persistent element of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that consistently appears or is a recurring aspect of a situation, concept, or phenomenon.
Example: "The lack of communication has been a persistent element of the team's struggles."
Alternatives: "a constant factor in" or "a recurring aspect of".
Even though great strides have been made in understanding brain disease, there is still a persistent element in society that does not believe mental illness exists and that people just need to "snap out of it".
And it is this persistent element of ambiguity that makes Deitch's curatorial gesture most interesting.
The persistent element of all forms of establishment terrorism, unlike that of nonstate terrorism, is that of secrecy.
The designation caps a presidential term that saw conversion of several natural and culturally significant areas into protected zones, achievements that may turn out to be the most persistent element of Mr. Obama's legacy.
Soussloff concludes with a groundbreaking analysis of one of the earliest and most persistent elements of biography, the "artist anecdote," demonstrating that it is essential in the construction of the figure of the artist.
In his later work, such as Providence (1977) with Dirk Bogarde and John Gielgud and My American Uncle (1980) Resnais's style evolved into something more conventionally elegant and stylish: witty comedies with shrewd commentary on social mores, but with persistent elements of the surreal and the macabre.Resnais was a director who helped give a new freshness and intellectual sinew to postwar cinema.
Nintendo's online offerings tend to flatter to deceive but here there's everything that could be wished for, outside of a more persistent element like rankings, perhaps – but then, Mario Kart's never really been about prestige so much as one-off races and clonking your mate with a red shell.
It is an environmentally persistent element and a major global environmental hazard.
Flex appears to have mellowed since then, and with me he talked about how the decline of the small-time drug business was hurting hip-hop by introducing a "persistent, annoying" element into the industry.
