Sentence examples for persistent case from inspiring English sources

A mandatory head check with the camp nurse that turned up a rather persistent case of head lice.

All was well for Mr. Swayze during the shooting in December, except for a minor but persistent case of indigestion.

He had a persistent case of scalp ringworm which was finally cured by X-ray treatment when he was home for Christmas.

Mr. Nzie, in his 50's, is renowned as a healer, but he had been unable to rid himself of a persistent case of malaria.

It did so mainly to combat a particularly persistent case of deflation, a broad-based decline in consumer prices, and to revive economic growth.

These may be Motown employees or retailers or people from radio stations, or they may simply be fans who have made an especially good or especially persistent case for themselves at the stage door.

Despite such efforts, there have been persistent cases of embarrassing investigative failures by the agency.

That is exactly the type of misguided reinforcement that worsens the homeless problem and enables chronic and persistent cases to live in a state of learned helplessness.

There are many medically serious reasons for bad breath — including poor dental hygiene, gastric reflux, infections, bowel obstruction, diabetes, kidney disease and cancer — that should be ruled out in persistent cases.

During President Lula's recent visit to the UN human rights council it called on his government "to review and resolve any inconsistencies in the positions it has adopted in regard to the severe and persistent cases of abuses and violations of human rights in specific countries".

Despite the occasional but persistent cases of international students arriving at university with suitcases full of cash to pay their fees, the vast majority of students pay electronically via banks, which, incidentally, charge universities a hefty commission for handling these transactions, a burden that costs the sector as a whole millions of pounds every year.