Sentence examples for low but persistent from inspiring English sources

Ms. Phillips was singing torch songs banked down to a low but persistent simmer, evading melodrama by keeping quiet.

There is a low but persistent level of verbal abuse of identifiably Jewish people on the street.

Ms. Stevens has concluded that "a low but persistent" percentage of the nearly 400,000 people held for deportation each year are citizens.

President Obama has the so-called birthers to contend with; Mr. Cruz, who was born in Canada, is swatting at a low but persistent buzz about whether he's got the right stuff, geographically, to be president.

Drawing on Japan's experiences with low but persistent deflation, Eric S. Rosengren, president of the Boston Fed, said it seemed that the disease was much easier to prevent than cure.

The group with the highest number of fishing days (75%% of fishing days) was Group C conducted at muddy shallow depths (30 100 m) all year round targeting mostly M. merluccius and to a lesser extent, a wide variety of species that ensured low but persistent production and income (Table 2).

Anthropogens incite a low level, but persistent immune response to a not-immediately life-threatening situation, which can become dysmetabolic when exposure is chronic.

The chatter is a cross between the talk in Hewlett and Chinatown: low-key but persistent, drifting from family news to stocks, from Mandarin to English.

Many people who are not at serious risk of suicide are nonetheless seeing their lives eroded by low-grade but persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness and stress-related illnesses, doctors and researchers say.

He had waged what The New York Times described at the time as a "low-key but persistent personal campaign" for a Supreme Court nomination since Nixon was elected in 1968.

IN AN attempt to keep North Africa's winds of change from buffeting his kingdom, King Abdullah of Jordan dismissed his government in his first political concession since non-violent, low-key but persistent protests erupted in the country a month ago.The move appears unlikely to stem mounting dissent.