"persist strongly" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to emphasize that someone or something is continuing to stay the same despite attempts to change them. For example, "The protesters persisted strongly in their demands for social equality despite the police's attempts to disperse the crowd."
This negative association between ΔDE and mutation frequency also persists strongly in noncoding regions of the yeast genome (r = −0.940, P < 0.001 at dyad) indicating that this pattern is not driven by any mutational bias imposed by the genetic code.
And why do they persist so strongly in the face of science?
This is especially the case in the UK, where relative unemployment levels persist very strongly over long periods of time.
Cook examines why many traditional aspects of Islam — such as the separation of men and women — persist so strongly from pre-modern times.
Either there is little selection for fast or slow growth up to a few weeks post-settlement, or such effects do not persist sufficiently strongly to influence later growth.
Under certain conditions, memories including affective content persist more strongly over time than memories lacking emotional tone (Kensinger 2004).
These studies show that memories associated with the evocation of emotion persist more strongly than memories lacking affective tone (LaBar and Phelps 1998; Cahill 2000; Kensinger 2004; McGaugh 2004; Phelps 2004).
However, the belief persists strongly among a minority, even with U.S. allies like Turkey or in the U.S. itself.
At E9.5, expression of both Nkx2- 5 and Meis1 persists strongly in the AHF while levels of Meis1 in the distal OFT are reduced.
The finding of disproportionate integrations into this intron of BACH2 in proliferating and persisting cells strongly suggest that this event favors cell survival: HIV integration just upstream of the start of the coding sequence could lead to promoter insertion-mediated activation (16) and thus dysregulation of the BACH2 gene.
One-year HR-HPV persistence strongly predicts which infection will continue to persist [ 17] and progress to CIN2/3 [ 18].
