And it showed that sometimes in politics, the most effective advocates are not the professional lobbyists, but the persistent amateurs with wrenching tales to tell.
One of the more persistent and most scurrilous tales told in the years after Mozart's death involved Salieri as his murderer.
But the tales were persistent enough, widely disseminated enough, and serious enough, that this morning NZ Police took the highly unusual step of publishing a formal statement to quash them.
It's been said often that the show succeeds in large part because it subverts all cliches and tropes: yet this is surely one of the most persistent folk tales of all, the beauty who has been falsely modifying herself.
That would be a tale of the persistent conflict between the public's right to information and that same public's desire to silence the fraudulent, the obscene and the treacherous.
Most of the allegations are unproved, but they are persistent; Iraqi and U.S. officials, both current and former, tell tales of extortion, bribery, kickbacks, and theft.
His most persistent memory is that of a family friend and the captivating tale of her intense but ill-fated affair with the alluring French fighter pilot Jacques Dorme.
They were, mostly, survivor's tales, the best of them crafted with wonderful comic reserve out of the persistent anxiety and sporadic wreckage of his life.
We are so used to tales of diplomacy ignored or even scorned that it comes almost as a shock that a skilled, persistent and patient diplomat can achieve great things for our country and the world.
A Tale of Persistence JERRY BERNS, an owner and the greeter for many decades at the celebrated "21" Club, was a persistent man.
