The persistent fight has acted as an irritant, bringing divisions to the surface.
Fourth District (Nassau County): Representative Carolyn McCarthy, a moderate Democrat in Republican suburbs, is always a target of the gun lobby for her brave and persistent fight for gun control issues.
Human trafficking has ever since received increased national and societal concern [3] but still demands persistent fight against from all over the globe.
But the International Union of Sheet Metal Workers, representing 6,000 railroad em ployes, has fought a persistent battle against new work rules in the contract that would relax their exclusive jurisdic tion in certain r ailroad repairs.
Nevertheless, because individuals with the contest strategy are more persistent in fights (due to a higher giving-up threshold), they are able to obtain the resource on average more often than turn-taking individuals.
She could be doggedly persistent and fought majestically for those who had had few breaks in life.
In his persistent legal fight, which reached the Supreme Court four times, he won 10 delays of execution.
Specifically, turn-taking is only stable for small-benefit values because with increasing benefits, the contest strategy, but not the turn-taking strategy, evolves more persistent within-fight behaviour, which makes the contest strategy more successful.
Also in agreement with findings of Enquist and Leimar [ 26], we observed that for the contest strategy increasing benefits lead to more persistent within-fight behaviour, as indicated by higher values of the giving-up threshold T (figure 2 b).
In Russia, the battle is diptheria, and in other countries persistent battles are fought with malaria, yellow fever, dengue, and filarisis.
New York is searching for new ways to fight persistent poverty, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Commission for Economic Opportunity has recommended useful reforms.
