By now, 20 years into the North Korean nuclear saga, it should be apparent that Pyongyang has persistently sought to gain the upper hand over its adversaries through periodic military provocations and peace ploys.
"He was persistently blocked by officials for a long period from gaining access to the room where the questioning was taking place.
Achieving the goal of the best possible care for the care recipient seem to depend on the ability of the informal caregivers to manage a complex reality, relentlessly and persistently navigating the health care services on behalf of their older relatives and having the resources to choose appropriate strategies for gaining influence over decisions.
And bluntly, if not arrogantly, in the face of such persistently widespread criticism, condemnation and demand, is it asking too much to express the hope that you will choose the correct way that is gaining momentum, to consider stepping down?
Now, as throughout history, organised Anousia has repeatedly been dangerous, destabilising, and persistently retrogressive, and as one of the most backward forces in today's world it ought not to be supported from public funds in gaining access to children: yet our own government is actively promoting it.
By contrast, the Geithner Treasury has persistently frustrated every attempt to gain better understanding of the causes of the financial crisis via endless court challenges, obfuscation, lies and delaying tactics.
Ariel Ezrahi, the director of infrastructure in the Office of the Quartet, the international body set up in 2002 to aid Palestinian development, told me that the P.A. has worked "persistently and constructively" with Israel and international sponsors to gain independent sources of power generation.
In our sample, boys increasing MVPA category gained more BMI and FFM compared to their peers with a persistently low MVPA.
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the first wave of feminist activists argued persistently for women's rights to relieve their own suffering, and hence to gain control over the birthing process, the right of extended choices during childbirth, and full control over their body, as well as their reproductive life.
In contrast, those who have only lost earners, or both lost and gained earners, respectively, show a 12.3 and 7.5%% higher probability of being persistently poor.
By persistently ignoring that obligation, Israel has chipped away at the belief of even the most doveish Palestinians that they will ever gain the state they are promised.
