Perhaps more startling than Mr. Obama's absence — nothing here about a "gutsy call" — is the decision to focus on a young woman who is portrayed as persisting for years in the pursuit when higher-ranking, more powerful and better-armed men around her were failing, lazy or clueless.
Participants were clinic patients aged 18 or older who were seeking their initial treatment at the center for chronic pain, defined as persisting for at least the past three months with an average level over the past month of at least 4 of 10 on a numerical rating scale.
These were defined as persisting for a period of at least 30 minutes following anaphase onset, and they were significantly more common in aged than young oocytes (>40%, n=23 versus <5%, n=29; Fig. 6A,B), and 64% (n=11) of these produced aneuploid metII eggs.
The belief that a branch of the Union Bank of Canada had been buried with as much as $500,000 persisted for many years.
Chronic rhinosinusitis was defined as symptoms that persisted for >12 weeks.
Acute rhinosinusitis was defined as symptoms that persisted for <12 weeks and with symptom-free intervals if the problem was recurrent.
Rumors of possible "silent bans" for players—suspensions that are publicly acknowledged as injuries have persisted for years, in part because of tennis's secretive system of governance.
The case of paraesthesia, which was classified as moderate, persisted for two days after treatment, and one case of dry skin persisted for some time after treatment but may have been an exacerbation of a pre-existing problem.
Our findings seem to suggest that remoteness appears to be an independent risk factor as differences persisted for normal birth, preterm birth and birthweight for TE Remote mothers and newborns, even after accounting for risk factors and access to care.
Some stresses, such as the lethal ultraviolet B (UV-B) irradiation before the ozone shelter was established, persisted for as long as 2 billion years.
The reduction in growth persisted for as long as the fiscal tourniquet was applied.
