Although electronic pacemakers are an excellent therapy, their persistent shortcomings (need for monitoring and replacement, indwelling catheter electrodes in the heart, possibility of infection, lack of autonomic responsiveness, geometric limitations with respect to pediatric patients) are sufficient to warrant a search for better alternatives.
Hearts are now nine points clear of Rangers, and that gap is a graphic illustration of the persistent shortcomings of McCoist's team.
Employees of the remade agency are candid about its persistent shortcomings.
The report identified "serious and persistent deficiencies" in the department's management of the contracts, including "significant skill and capability gaps" among staff and "persistent shortcomings" in areas ranging from record keeping to the ability to assess value for money.
It identified "serious and persistent deficiencies" in the department's management of the contracts, including "significant skill and capability gaps" among staff and "persistent shortcomings" in areas ranging from record keeping to the ability to assess value for money.
The food-safety crisis also underscores persistent shortcomings in the Chinese news media, which, far from the gray, state-controlled monolith many foreigners imagine, sometimes manage to be feisty and surprisingly investigative.
Asked whether May might back calls for GTR to be stripped of the Southern franchise because of the persistent shortcomings in the service, the spokeswoman said: "It's not as simple or straightforward as saying there's one answer or one solution.
Paperbacks will still be needed, as will press junkets, copy editors, dust jackets, and so on — and in addition to providing such services, these theoretically-reasonable publishers (or publisher, if they continue subsuming one another) will preside over powerful and lucrative new platforms that reflect both the new capabilities of the author and his persistent shortcomings.
Despite the improvements they have brought to the sector, however, persistent shortcomings such as diverging national application of the rules and uneven enforcement called for a revision of both acts.
However, while those elections were generally well-administered, persistent shortcomings were also identified, such as pressure and vote-buying practices and interference by party representatives or police officers in voting stations.
One of the shortcomings of the PISE environment is its lack of support for a persistent user workspace (Gilbert, 2002).
