The phrase "a persistent focus on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an ongoing or continuous emphasis or attention given to a particular subject or issue.
Example: "The organization has maintained a persistent focus on improving community engagement over the past year."
Alternatives: "an unwavering emphasis on" or "a continual attention to".
This can seem like heresy to the parents of these younger workers, but my generation has also seen what cutthroat competition and a persistent focus on material acquisition has done to our parents' generation.
The results also indicate a persistent focus on consumer markets and economic theories, as well as an increasing consideration of demand-side respondents, at the expense of supply-side respondents.
Current "ossified curricular structures, a persistent focus on the factual minutiae of today's knowledge base", and faculty burdened with workload and aspiring efficiency, can threaten essential values that make for an inquisitive and empathic physician [ 6].
By failing to establish that its fractured imagery issues from a female subjectivity, its persistent focus on the exposed female form and its linking of female creativity and body-hatred start to feel uncomfortably objectifying.
This literature review of Indigenous HIV research demonstrates in a number of the articles examined a persistent focus on vulnerability and risk, which appears to have driven Indigenous HIV research since the early days of the epidemic.
Hulbert picks her way through the minefield of "spectrum" or "savant" kids and the question of whether what we call autism, with its bestowal of exceptionally close and persistent focus on some object, can be a help in the arts and sciences.
But what I am suggesting is that, in addition to the commonly recited mantras intended to help entrepreneurs execute (such as fail fast, be persistent, focus on product above all else, prioritize engineering, surround yourself with "A" players, etc)., we should develop and promote a more deliberate practice of discovering passions worth pursuing and problems worth solving in a less haphazard way.
On a more general level, we are bemused by this reviewer's persistent focus on metabolic coupling.
But the persistent focus on the sniper meant that the networks had to scramble to fill hours of time between developments, which were few and far between.
The administration's persistent focus on South Asia, Mr. Hoffman said, had allowed spinoffs of Al Qaeda in Yemen and North Africa to put down roots.
The persistent focus on amyloid may be best explained by both the lack of alternative scientific theories and the reluctance of the pharmaceutical industry to abandon years of sunk costs in amyloid-based research and development.
