After persistent urging from supporters to leave the government, she refused to do so until the latest scandal broke.
The persistent urging of educators, parents, and advocacy groups for the provision of early childhood services to be viewed as a government obligation has also forced the government to change its laissez-faire attitude.
Despite persistent urging from Alexander Martin and others, Sumner resigned from his militia command in October 1780, and returned to the Continental service.
In BC, a public health emergency was declared last year a move no other Canadian province has yet to match, despite persistent urging from health and harm reduction professionals.
The WAVES, an all-female unit which was created in 1942 thanks in some measure to persistent urging from first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, helped women in the armed services to break new ground.
There is, too, his persistent urge to create a perfect fit between found objects and precious (or not so precious) materials.
The fact that Iranian authorities must still, 27 years after the Islamic revolution, forcibly impose dress codes suggests a persistent urge to challenge them.
P. W. Marlow: Unrest in much of Tibet (with West intervening) is seen by Chinese as intrigue (W in anag. less t + Ch).. C. J. Morse: The internet's regressive with a persistent urge to spell badly (Web (rev).
The persistent urge in comedy to push boundaries would have surely meant such daring elements would have come to light eventually: David and Seinfeld were just either lucky or inspired enough to get there first.
But I can't count the number of women I've talked with who assume that because their desire is responsive, rather than spontaneous, they have 'low desire'; that their ability to enjoy sex with their partner is meaningless if they don't also feel a persistent urge for it; in short, that they are broken, because their desire isn't what it's 'supposed' to be.
