Now someone on the line — he is 81 and persistent — wants to talk to the attorney general, whom he calls Andy.
If you are dealing with someone who is persistent in wanting to discuss religion, say something like "I understand that you see your beliefs as the truth, but I feel the same way about mine".
A small but persistent chorus wants to scrap the cent entirely.
But the persistent oligarch wants to know if there is a price that could change Guardiola's mind and persuade him to change his colors to Chelsea blue — and start the process of making the London club play like Barcelona.
In the 1990s and 2000s, we heard a lot from men who were striving to be the good guy: Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson, Clint Black and others wrote and sang songs expressing various facets of a persistent theme about wanting to be better men, even when they failed to live up to their own expectations.
First, because large numbers of women can be infected with HPV but not have persistent disease, we wanted to maximize chances that any identified lesions would likely represent real disease versus squamous metaplasia, inflammation or transient infection with HPV.
Confronting ethical problems in research was a persistent theme: 'I want to say that sex workers should be responsible for denouncing bad and unethical research but in reality, in most places, sex workers don't have the support required for that'.
Decide and be persistent where you want to focus your energy.
There is strength, there is the feeling of a persistent and constant effort in wanting to hope or not wanting to give up.
"I'm sort of quite persistent about what I want to achieve.
Such a perception does not fit at all comfortably with Shearer's merciless edge, or the persistent rumour that he wanted to join another United, Manchester, in 1996.
