Haiti lives at depths where contempt cannot grow; down there, mercy straggles but persists.
The push to diversify out of dollars was strongest three years ago, but persists today.
By Alex Ross Gergiev thrives on a hectic pace, but persists in offering work of uneven quality.
He is guilt-ridden by his rapaciousness, but persists nonetheless, molesting his granddaughter and betraying his political mentor to save his own skin in the aftermath of Rajiv Gandhi's assassination.
However, Tam Fry, of the National Obesity Forum, said: "The junk food and drinks industry has known for years just what it has do to make its products healthy, but persists in not doing it.
According to Dr. Beltrani, it disappears in 3 to 12 months in up to half of patients, but persists for up to five years in 20 percent of patients and for 20 or more years in 1.5 percent.
Dr. Kent Campbell, a malaria expert for Unicef, said chloroquine was still effective against vivax malaria, which is less fatal than more predominant falciparum malaria, but persists in Ethiopia.
But nor should it be forced to follow the dictates of an international agenda which claims a focus on poverty but persists in applying policy priorities that make sense only in the world's wealthiest societies.
As John Updike noted in a 1981 review, "Mr. Trevor knows, and dramatizes, two principal truths about low life: it never utterly lies down, but persists in asserting claims and values of its own derivation; and it cannot be fenced off and disowned by the fortunate".
The result was a play that combines sardonic humor, blood-boiling anger and heartbreaking tragedy to draw attention to a world that may have vanished from the gentrified Lower East Side but persists in other parts of the city and country.
