Running in parallel with the stories of ordinary people, The Blitz also considers how the government responded to the persistent air raids.
Thirdly, the persistent livestock raids that existed in the region prior to the 2000 to 2007 peaceful and forceful disarmament led to a high number of pastoralist dropouts.
The persistent Ottoman raids brought devastation, hunger and depopulation which led to a sharp decline in the cultivated lands.
The deposed Prince Sihanouk then threw his support to the Khmer Rouge, which began its five-year drive to Phnom Penh and a bloody war punctuated by persistent B-52 raids, as well as an American invasion.
Still, as distinct from revisionist historians and environmentalists hellbent on trampling any triumphalist frontier memory, McMurtry keeps a soft spot in his heart for the pain and courage of plain people who endured the killing work, the shattering loneliness, the persistent threat of Indian raids.
Tens of thousands of Gazans protested Israel's repeated raids to halt persistent Palestinian rocket attacks; the Israeli deputy defense minister threatened Hamas with a catastrophe; the Hamas prime minister, Ismail Haniya, brushed aside Israeli threats to aim at political leaders; and another Palestinian died from wounds received Thursday.
Marcus Mietzner, a senior lecturer at Australian National University in Canberra and author of "The Politics of Military Reform in Post-Suharto Indonesia," said the prison raid exposed a persistent culture of impunity within the armed forces and in particular Kopassus, because soldiers have little to fear from military courts.
In Destiny, for example, the setting is a vast open galaxy, a persistent online environment, where players can carry out narrative missions, strikes and raids with friends, but where at times, they will stumble into the activities of other groups.
A routine raid of the Plainfield brothel by the local police and persistent questioning by investigators eventually uncovered an organized ring that trafficked in such unworldly girls.
They had recently begun to raid maize crops and steal chickens, causing such serious and persistent damage that many Ghanaians were keeping their young children out of school to help guard family farms.
