By using torture, the country relinquishes the very ideological advantage -- the promotion of democracy, freedom and human rights -- that the president has so persistently claimed is America's most powerful weapon in defeating Islamic extremism.
The tabloids thought they were "untouchable", Hugh Grant explained during powerful and persuasive testimony which persistently sought to put the Daily Mail and its Sunday sister into the phone-hacking and paparazzi frame.
Their styles of fighting are also completely different – cats prefer to use their sharp claws (kept that way by being pulled back into sheaths when not required), whereas dogs, who continually blunt their claws by using them for traction when running, persistently try to bring their teeth and powerful jaws into play.
In the past, new Colossus aficionados have persistently run up against the objections of Greece's powerful lobby of archaeologists.
And such an extended, open press conference, where reporters can assertively assume the right to persistently follow up on their questions to the most powerful politician in the country, would never have taken place at all.
Again and again the polls proclaim the United States to be a profoundly and persistently religious nation, one in which faith remains a powerful force despite the temptations of secularism and the decline of religion's influence in most other countries of the developed world.
As a result of what the cognitive sciences call "the awareness heuristic" — a mental shortcut we use to quickly assess the likely frequency of things we don't know much about — the more readily an event leaps to mind from our memory, or the more persistently it's in the news, the more emotionally powerful and probable it feels.
The ability to persistently modulate splicing of a target gene using ASOs provides a powerful method to model and characterize diseases in animals.
"It's like a quilt -- it leads you to another patch, and another". The most persistently nebulous element of the case, analysts say, is how much Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency knew about the events surrounding Pearl's capture and execution.
Meanwhile, they have been persistently building a network of about a thousand volunteers across the country and have won allies in the Catholic Church, a powerful institution in Congo.
