Sentence examples for persistent crime from inspiring English sources

Her goal "was to get out of Newark," a city with persistent crime.

The widow of the title, Jean Taylor, is being doorstepped by a particularly persistent crime reporter.

The antics of the high-flying connected unfold against a backdrop of widespread AIDS, insufficient growth and persistent crime.

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

By the time we upped sticks and headed back north we still loved the energy and diversity of our home in the capital but were fed up with the lack of real community, persistent crime and impatient rudeness.

Re "Schiavo Case Highlights an Alliance Between Catholics and Evangelicals" (news article, March 24): This alliance would be best served if it focused more of its energy and resources on true "life" issues -- inadequate health care, faltering education, persistent crime and poverty.

But three blights on black America have proved persistent: violent crime, family breakdown and a failure by black children to fulfil their academic potential.Crime doesn't pay"If you were black," said the cabdriver, "I wouldn't take you there.

The appointment also presents a broader opportunity, according to some industry and labor experts and law enforcement officials, to begin to root out what they say has been decades of corruption in the construction industry, stemming from persistent organized crime infiltration and ingrained labor bribery.

Four years ago, in a head-to-head battle with Ms. Shiller, Mr. Cappleman spoke in a far more aggressive tone as he asserted that she viewed "the persistent street crime, gang-related murders and international drug trafficking as facts of urban life that residents should simply get used to".

It's a popular destination for Mexico City weekenders that has also faced persistent drug crime in recent years.

While the murder rate has dropped to all-time lows in many other parts of New York City, this precinct, a mostly black and Hispanic community, has seen persistent violent crime. .