"persistent power" is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
It typically refers to continuous or enduring influence or control. Example: Despite facing numerous challenges, the company's persistent power in the market allowed them to maintain their position as an industry leader.
And yet modern history provides enormous evidence for the persistent power of unreason.
Kiria said Tanzania's widening budget deficit and persistent power cuts have damaged Kikwete's relations with donors.
Such a schedule is not by choice; the persistent power shortages make round-the-clock operations all but impossible.
And, like them, he has utterly underestimated the persistent power of that dream in Paris and Berlin.
Slowly, as I began to work, it was clear to me how much persistent power those views of Mary have.
In a country of persistent power shortages and blackouts, street lamps brightly illuminate the night, like strings of pearls running up and down scrub-covered hills.
Thus, in most settings men are more likely than women to report having had multiple or multiple and concurrent partners ([ 78, 84]) and given persistent gendered-power structures, women are more likely than men to report having received goods or money in exchange for sex (but see [ 79, 85]).
The constant bruising from the persistent wrestling for power and position eventually erodes the effectiveness of the Speaker.
Clive Sinclair strongly denied any problem with reliability: The higher failure rate of the kits was put down to customers breaking the components by inserting or soldering them the wrong way, though Sinclair admitted that there was a persistent problem with power supplies that affected both kits and pre-assembled ZX81s.
As for psychology, the cool, persistent logic that powers Sachs's prose doesn't account for the many irrationalities embedded in personal economic choices, and hence in the global system at large.
We're trying to open up a very different kind of platform around low-power, persistent, large display on the body.
