All of these challenges have been made bigger, more powerful, more complex and more persistent as a result of globalization.
Charismatic, indefatigable and reviled in many quarters, Mr. Bergson was "as persistent as a force of nature," Mr. Hecht later wrote.
The phrase was coined shortly after the Civil War, by the writer John W. De Forest, and, although it has taken on an ironic tint, it has been remarkably persistent as a measuring stick for American literature.
And crucial to the vision has been the idea of Britain (or England, for the confusion is persistent) as a haven of freedom, an exception to the pattern of continental despotism.
She gives us the insider's scoop, in, for example, a wonderful point about the male behavior of male patients: "They do not mention families, except for offhand, curiously shy references to 'the wife'... or bragging about a son's athletic prowess -- always a son, never a daughter, and always sport, with the bragging discreet but persistent as a mosquito's whine".
The pattern of trace metal contamination in fugitive dust from VT district roads is similar to trace metal concentrations patterns observed for soils measured more than 40 years ago indicating that Pb contamination in the region is persistent as a long-term soil contaminant.
It was hypothesised that results would depend on the treatment history of the patient (new in care, 2-3 years in care or chronic; hereafter 'level of chronicity'), because chronic patients are more likely to present with needs that are persistent as a result of lack of treatment response.
