We call on President Obama and America's political leaders in every party at every level to mount a long overdue, unwavering, and persistent war to prevent and eliminate child poverty and finish the task President Johnson and Dr. King began.
The upheavals, then as well as today, are part of a persistent civil war within the N.C.A.A. over control and distribution of television money.
Internal popular disturbances threaten to have a disastrous effect on the future conduct of this persistent war.
In the persistent war over the land, blood has been spilled on both sides.
The play shows my culture intersecting with persistent war and violence.
But there are also certain places where inhuman conditions exist, where life is continued suffering – wherever persistent war, poverty, hunger, disease, injustice and oppressive conditions are more the norm than the exception.
The persistent war hawk, who endorsed George W. Bush after failing to pick up sufficient steam in the 2000 presidential race, said his foreign policy experience would have aided him in seeing past dubious evidence that ultimately led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
On the right, pundits and politicians have cultivated a persistent cold-war-style alarmism about our foreign enemies — Vladimir Putin one week, Hugo Chavez the next, Kim Jong-il the week after that.
The art market in which he worked rose and fell along with persistent wars and speculative economies, like the tulip mania crash of 1637.
Their circumstances were different as well — the 1990s ultimately were a decade of relative peace and prosperity, while so far Mr. Obama's tenure has been marked by two persistent wars and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
