"I had never thought that much about the Confederate flag because I grew up in California," he said, alluding to a segment on persistent controversy around the symbol.
In the absence of a witness's testimony, there has been a persistent controversy about what actually happened on the video — who the other shooter was and, in some quarters, whether a killing happened at all.
Teachers and Visas Around the country, the most persistent controversy involving the schools — and the one most covered in the news — centers on the hundreds of Turkish teachers and administrators working on special visas.
Persistent controversy over GM crops and foods, longstanding in Europe and on the rise in the United States, indicate that legitimate public concerns about the benefits of these technologies could not simply be wished away.
In March, shaken by the persistent controversy over comments pulled from the sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, an icon in Chicago's black community and Obama's former pastor, Obama gave his now famous speech on race.
And the Mets were pestered by a persistent controversy involving a fringe player.
The clinical consequences of storage lesions, however, remain a matter of persistent controversy.
Management of patients with giant hemangiomas of the liver encounters persistent controversy.
A persistent controversy surrounds the flightless island hen of Tristan da Cunha, Gallinula nesiotis.
On the whole, though, the discussion between these two camps resembles recurring disagreements between "splitters" and "lumpers" in pain research (e.g., see Berkley, 1980) as well as, more generally, the persistent controversy about functional localization in brain research.
