Sentence examples for close and persistent from inspiring English sources

This first passage, the book's opening paragraph, establishes one of the great strengths of "Random Family": how close and persistent observation yields telling details.

Hulbert picks her way through the minefield of "spectrum" or "savant" kids and the question of whether what we call autism, with its bestowal of exceptionally close and persistent focus on some object, can be a help in the arts and sciences.

Such viruses are likely to arise in densely populated agricultural communities where contact between humans and birds or pigs are close and persistent (2 ).

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"These new international comparisons underscore the urgency of accelerating achievement in secondary school and the need to close large and persistent achievement gaps," Duncan said.

The turnover at governors' mansions and statehouses will have all kinds of implications for policy, including states' efforts to balance their budgets and close persistent deficits, and proposed legislation and regulations for major industries, like insurance.

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Terbuthylazine has been shown to be fairly immobile in the soil and to rapidly degrade and hexazinone shown to be very mobile in the soil and persistent (Close et al. 2005; Close et al. 2003; Close et al. 2006; James et al. 1998; Pang et al. 2005; Pang and Close 2001; Sarmah et al. 2005).

Penn GSE's Institute of Research on Higher Education IRHEembarkedked on its ambitious comparison of higher education policies by examining five states (Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Texas, and Washington) that have similar challenges as other states, such as the need to increase educational attainment and close persistent gaps in opportunity by race, ethnicity, income and geography.

Its closing stemmed from serious and persistent quality-of-care failures, some of which resulted in patient deaths.

If he has been consistent and persistent in getting close to you, then he likes you.