He drew his superiors' attention to the problem but after receiving a letter from a senior official warning that he would face disciplinary action if he persisted in asking "inappropriate questions", passed documents to MEP Chris Heaton-Harris in 2003.
Soon after, a security guard, who was joined by two men wearing Foxconn shirts, threatened to "beat up" a journalist's translator if she persisted in asking the family questions.
Dinesh told me, after I persisted in asking, that he had done time as a prisoner awaiting trial.
When a dozen reporters persisted in asking questions, Rocker said he "was not going to say another word" and then asked them to find another spot to stand in the clubhouse.
Moorehead relates how one new contact, not yet up on the code and baffled by being told that he was about to be sent a "livre", persisted in asking, "What book?" "An Old Testament, you idiot!" came the exasperated reply.
If I had persisted in asking my surgeon about the fate of the stents that he had implanted in my body, he might have remembered to remove them.
Reporters persisted in asking questions about the city's budget crisis.
So Lisette had persisted in asking her mother, Was it Daddy she was going away with?
When I persisted in asking for the Hungarian socialist magazine, two older female librarians discreetly supplied it.
People persist in asking Delphine, "Why are you crying?" She spends much of the film running from people.
Some older people do not understand what "partner" means, for instance, and persist in asking about a neighbor's husband or wife.
