American commanders say they are getting better cooperation in some areas, while pockets of hostility persist in others.
Nevertheless, the hostility persisted.
She has a hard time explaining her motives — "It's a defense mechanism" — but her hostility persisted after she enrolled at the University of Virginia.
The quarantine had done little to alleviate popular skepticism of the government's Ebola-containment policies, however, and, for a while, hostility persisted.
In his blog, he writes: It represents a striking potential turnaround in our dealings with Iran, which have by and large been marked by extreme hostility for a generation … This hostility persisted up until last week.
Even after women arrived on campus, in 1972, hostility persisted, with female students derided as cohogs, rather than coeds; and menaced with letters that called them "the enemy" and objects for sexual conquest.
Several other states and local jurisdictions banned evolution, and widespread hostility persisted among fundamentalist churches and the teachers, parents and students who attended them, leading to the suppression of evolution in textbooks and biology curricula for generations.
On Iran, for instance, America has pursued a much harsher line than other westerners (and remains the Great Satan to hardline Iranians who, involved in political civil war with their own government, are at least as determined as some Americans that the inter-state hostility should persist).
Widespread ambivalence, bordering at times on hostility, persists in Colombian society over the role of unions.
Hostilities between France and Spain persisted, marked by further losses of territory on the southern border (Artois in 1640 and parts of Flanders in the later 17th century).
