I don't think they were appropriate in the presidential race this year, when Mr. Obama held a small but quite persistent lead that made him the favorite.
Then I went to a private art showing in Chelsea and met an art director, who was quite persistent.
Realize that you may be enough of an idealist to see the opposite view as not worth much consideration, and though that seems harsh, you as an idealist will probably be quite persistent, not wishy-washy.
We understand that Yodle is quite persistent in generating a constant stream of new customers by using aggressive sales techniques, to the extent of local small business owners threatening to sue the company for harassment.
But given inflation is still quite persistent, this would involve a theological U-turn.
Rumors of a slimmer, cheaper Xbox One have been quite persistent for the past few weeks.
However, we know from experience that institutional inertia can be quite persistent and change needs a lot of time to become effective.
However, the phenomenon is never absent, because this science remains in the Western tradition and culture in which it fits, and also brings with it its evolutionary heritage if it is quite persistent, although similar to a variable extent.
Similar surveys were done with comparable samples of women in 1982, 1995 and 2002, and some findings "are quite persistent" over the decades, said an author of the report, William D. Mosher, a statistician with the center.
Hence, lobbying on a particular issue was not necessarily front-or back-loaded and seemed to be quite persistent through the attempts to turn a proposal into law.
