But they also believe that racism in France is a persistent fact of life -- one that has markedly narrowed the choices for many of them.
Mr. Talele's misfortune, and that of many other farmers here, is a grim reminder of a persistent fact: India, despite its ambitions as an emerging economic giant, still struggles to feed its 1.1 billion people.
Mr. DeStefano said Tuesday that Mr. Pryor was an effective leader because he took a persistent, fact-based approach to issues, adding that "he is not one to default to preconceived notions".
Browse a bookstore these days, and you will find a similar crop of titles, of course, but, as Kirby pointed out in a speech in Shanghai yesterday, the enduring sense that China is in the throes of pivotal change is less a cliché than it is a startlingly persistent fact.
The divestment underscores a persistent fact in the bigger market for online food delivery: the logistics involved plus the investment needed to acquire and keep customers in competitive markets makes food delivery a very cost-intensive business that has proven challenging for many to bring into the black.
Residential segregation is an insidious and persistent fact of American life.
Expanding into another territory, occupying that territory, and dealing harshly with people who resist occupation has been a persistent fact of American history.
It seemed impossible miraculous, in a way that the country was suddenly engaged in a full-throated debate over the use of lethal force against unarmed persons by police officers, and the troublingly persistent fact that a profoundly disproportionate number of people dying at the hands of police officers are black.
Large disparities between rich and poor are a persistent fact of life in Ecuador.
According to Mason, there is "a distinct south-east English identity forming around a persistent economic fact: asset wealth".
