Publications such as the Daily Telegraph persist in pursuing a similar editorial policy.
When Watson asks why he persists in pursuing a case that seems solved, Holmes replies: "It is art for art's sake.
The author is merciless: "By cowardice as much as by blindness, he persists in pursuing policies which, for over 20 years, have been leading the country to ruin".
Nevertheless, methodologically speaking, future research must persist in pursuing the license-attractiveness relationship, analyzing this longitudinal type of data with more advanced inferential statistical techniques, such as structural equation modeling, to explore and understand the causal relationships better and even more rigorously.
Even though the outcomes that people achieve may bear no resemblance to the ones that they intended, it is still important to know what they thought they were doing when they chose to pursue to course of action that they chose – not least because it is important to know why they persist in pursuing that course of action, despite the fact that it is not producing the intended consequences.
Similarly, Rep. Berman threatened the Palestine Authority by saying, "If they persist in pursuing a unilateralist path... there will be consequences".
Above all, does the world's most powerful nation have no other choice but to persist in pursuing a manifestly futile endeavor?
He added, "If they persist in pursuing marijuana users, they should do so with caution and not in a reckless, cowboy-like manner as was done in this case.
The real hero of this film is a strong-jawed FBI agent, played very well by Kyle Chandler, from Zero Dark Thirty, who is today's Inspector Javert, persisting in pursuing the drug-crazed Leo character until he takes him down.
Nevertheless, prosecutors persisted this week in pursuing charges against the 61-year-old woman the rookie had taken into custody.
