Sentence examples for focus has persisted from inspiring English sources

The rhetoric and the reality Despite the growing power of central government, the dominant rhetoric has been about autonomy, independence and liberation from bureaucracy (read local authorities) and this focus has persisted and grown stronger over the years.

"That this focus on exports has persisted through periods both of economic success, as during the 1950s and 1960s, and of economic decline, as during the last 25 years and thus cannot be said to be clearly associated with one or the other seems to have escaped notice".

This focus on the political has persisted in the West for decades, fostered in part by the journalists who reported on China in the nineteen-seventies and nineteen-eighties, when relatively few international art critics had visited the country.

The belief that water droplets on plants focus solar rays and burn foliage has persisted for generations.

Nonetheless poor air quality has persisted with officials continuing to focus on economic growth, and lax enforcement of environmental regulations remains rife.

Based on our review, research in eastern Africa has been focused on AMR prevalence and patterns; a trend that has persisted since the 1970s.

While this violence has persisted, Chicago police have also been the focus of a federal investigation as well as local efforts to reform the department.

It details the ingrained sexism and harassment that has persisted for decades in the workplace, and focuses mainly on the frequency of the issue in the media industry.

Despite educational policy shifts and student-focused interventions intended to help students of all backgrounds excel, the phenomenon has persisted.

Republicans are focusing anew on the party's disadvantage among women, a problem that has persisted through the beginning of the Bush administration.

The problem has persisted.