The last Neanderthal died out 30,000 years ago, so any persistent influence suggests that they have done no harm and almost certainly have been beneficial.
More specifically, our analysis yields no support for the hypothesis that the Texas medical malpractice reforms had and substantial, persistent influence on levels of health insurance losses.
Still, Saudi Arabia is an oil power with persistent influence over prices.
Nature versus nurture: The environment's persistent influence through the modernization of American agriculture.
In part because of the Haqqanis' persistent influence, Khost province remains one of the most dangerous places in Afghanistan.
"Their persistent influence on the river system is like slow-release fertilizer capsules" feeding plants, she said.
Despite its persistent influence, the role of state media receives precious little attention from outsiders.
Riles, citing the persistent influence of Greek, Roman, and Christian thought in western culture, questioned whether China could really do away with its tradition of normative dualism.
Mukherjee splits the narrative between Supratik's escalating involvement in violent Naxalite campaigns and domestic unrest in Calcutta, creating a vivid portrait of India in the nineteen-sixties and of the persistent influence of colonial rule.
During collision, the lobate shape of the indentor (Superior craton) formed an orogenic template that, along with the smaller Sask craton, exerted a persistent influence on the tectonic evolution of the region resulting in anomalous preservation of juvenile Proterozoic crust.
Luciano Berio has been a persistent influence on Thomas's work, and that's most obvious in the vivid imagery of the earliest piece in this collection, the purely orchestral Words of the Sea, from 1995, inspired by a Wallace Stevens poem; the sonorities are both pungent and transparent, and each movement has its own distinctive dramatic profile.
