Persistently did run the classic distance of a mile and a quarter.
There are potential political benefits, in other words, to branding yourself as the candidate of compassion toward illegal immigrants, as George W. Bush persistently did.
One of the ways in which the Church of England persistently does this is by failing to include openly gay people from advisory groups: the latest being group chaired by Sir Joseph Pilling to advise the House of Bishops on the Church of England's approach to human sexuality.
When a young woman's roof leaked persistently, we didn't get off the phone until it was fixed.
"If a governor fails persistently to do this, then they will be in breach of the code of conduct and may bring the governing body or the office of a governor into disrepute - and as such provide grounds for the governing body to consider suspension," said a spokesman.
The subject who was persistently weak did not reconstitute his motor network.
In certain hosts, Campylobacter species colonize persistently and do not cause disease, while they cause acute intestinal disease in humans.
Raworth believes that our children will "deplore our persistently linear thinking and doing".
Non-persistently-transmitted and semi-persistently-transmitted viruses do not breach the gut barrier in the insect vector; rather they are retained in the insect stylet or foregut prior to transmission.
Financial problems will continue to dog him as persistently as controversy does.
