"She knew full well the enormity of her offense," Finch tells the jury, in his summation, "but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it".
Despite this, Democrats and pundits persist in believing that there is a breaking point for the Republican Party.
We talked about my girlfriend, who had recently broken up with me for what turned out not to be the last time, and about his girlfriend, who persisted in refusing to break up with him, and about other people we knew.
In this situation, the base damage and/or strand breaks in DNA persist in the genome, but their potential for interfering with DNA replication and transcription is somehow mitigated.
Infective virions persist in the environment and enter through breaks in the skin, and are mechanically vectored by biting insects.
Interestingly, while the bulk cells have repaired most of their damage 3 h after bleomycin treatment, as judged by the disappearance of comet tails, DNA strand breaks appeared to persist in TICs, suggesting that the DNA repair capacity of TICs may be diminished.
All ruins say this, yet we strangely persist in pretending that books are not ruins, not broken columns.
Organochlorine pesticides break down slowly and can persist in the environment long after application and in organisms long after exposure (Botwe 2007; Dikshith 2008; Darko et al. 2008).
When things persist in our bodies, it tells us that we are not very good at breaking them down.
If introgressive hybridization is important, pre-existing correlations may be broken down by gene flow in sympatry but still persist in allopatry.
But to persist in my work, I must believe that holiness is inviolable even as the body itself breaks open and bleeds.
