Sentence examples for persistent dents from inspiring English sources
Repeat for persistent dents.
My finding differs from that of Massey et al. [9] who documented significant mortality of birds around Venice Beach in association with the 1982 1983 El Niño warming event and a persistent dent in the age-structure of the local population due to lack of recruitment.
The overall improvement in household wealth also did little to make a dent in two persistent social problems: poverty and lack of health insurance.
Employment in the formal sector is up and wages have risen too.This, combined with Bolsa Familia, has made a dent on inequality, the most persistent symptom of Brazil's failure.
I wish I could give you a total fix in this one blog post, but it takes a lot of persistent hard work to really make a dent in this thing.
But civil rights have barely made a dent in today's most severe and persistent social injustices, such as the disproportionate incarceration of African-Americans, the glass ceiling that blocks career advancement for many women and high unemployment among the elderly; in fact, some of these problems have gotten worse despite civil rights laws intended to address them.
Richard Thompson Ford ("Moving Beyond Civil Rights," Op-Ed, Oct. 28) asserts that "civil rights have barely made a dent in today's most severe and persistent social injustices" and suggests that part of the problem is an inordinate focus on "individual injuries".
