Sentence examples for persistent country from inspiring English sources

It doesn't, for instance, know how to deal with Marshall Taylor Will Fortee doing clueless), a persistent country club swain with a yen for Mickey who has a habit of showing up at the least opportune time.

The persistent country differences in adult height even among recent birth cohorts indicate the intergenerational continuity in differences in childhood living conditions.

Yet from poverty indexes to risk-of-rape assessments, from childhood mortality figures to drug-use stats, just about every available measure of Afghan wellbeing paints a grim picture of a country in a persistent state of humanitarian crisis, often involving reconstruction and military failures on an epic scale.

Last week, in the latest example of the persistent differences, countries failed for a third time to break a deadlock over whether to allow imports of six varieties of bioengineered corn for food and feed made by Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences, Pioneer and Syngenta.

(What does that say about S.& P.'s credibility in the bond market?) The downgrade may point up the enormous challenges facing the country — persistent unemployment and the possibility of slower economic growth is a hard truth that may ultimately force the cost of borrowing to rise for the nation over the long term.

"With state legislatures hellbent on restricting women's health choices and options, a slew of so-called personhood amendments set to appear on ballot boxes across the country, persistent and widespread media sexism against women candidates, 2012 promises to be a critical year for women".

Thanks to a lack of diversity (patterns of residential segregation persistent throughout the country), there were no black people around to correct my false impressions.

There are complicated political, economic, social, and cultural causes for this shift, but all of them in one way or another grow out of a persistent racism the country has yet to address (despite the election of America's first black president).

In spite of Polish leaders' persistent denials, the country's collaboration with the CIA interrogations has been disclosed through independent investigations by media and human rights groups, as well as a judgment by the European Court of Human Rights in July that Poland was liable for injuries to a former CIA detainee committed on its soil.

In Russia, the battle is diptheria, and in other countries persistent battles are fought with malaria, yellow fever, dengue, and filarisis.

And in many developing countries, persistent crime, lousy education and a lack of opportunities for energetic people to prosper without graft and political connections.