More vexing to Mrs. Phair was the persistent notion that she had taken the name from the Disney character.
A persistent notion in American kitchens is that pasta, to be good, must be freshly made by hand, preferably by a venerable grandmother wielding a rolling pin.
At the same time, this Gaza episode may finally finish off the stubbornly persistent notion that Israel should negotiate a peace settlement with the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority without Hamas's involvement.
A persistent notion among reporters and newsmakers is that the Journal, which has published for the last 134 years, will eventually be shut down, and that The Star-Ledger will begin covering Hudson County.
The pieces looked like movement exercises at times, created on the spot while playing with a particular piece of music, gesture or persistent notion in a cleared-away space.
Rejecting the dangerously persistent notion that she simply wanted to be president because it was her turn, Clinton also used much of the packed speech to describe her real motivation.
The array of subjects tackled in "Principles" included memory, attention, emotions, instinct, imagination, habit, the consciousness of self, and "automaton theory," the persistent notion, of which James disapproved, that within our neural machinery lies some sort of homunculus, or mini-man, "that offers a living counterpart for every shading, however fine, of the history of its owner's mind".
"We can see them in the increasing importance of transnational migrant labor and the rapid flow of capital around the globe, in the persistent notion that citizens deserve certain rights that are denied to aliens, and in the sentimental and idealistic ways Americans sometimes approach the exercise of U.S. power around the world".
More likely, it's because they placed them in that precise way because that's the only way they have found (and they will have tried everything else) to ease the trauma of a persistent notion that, if they don't, their children will be killed in a car accident.
That makes the debate over HR so unnecessarily difficult, as there is still a persistent notion in the Valley that as long as you know everyone you work with, you don't need these programs and trainings.
Second, heel-dragging comes from a persistent notion that America's hydrocarbons are somehow uniquely precious, so rare in fact that, unlike any other commodity, the U.S. government should not allow American crude oil to be sold to other nations.
