Western governments and the United Nations have persistently pressed China to release Mr. Gao, 47, who once defended practitioners of Falun Gong, a religious group banned in China.
Indeed, ministers refused to give an estimate of the total cost when persistently pressed to do so by Angus Robertson, the SNP leader at Westminster, in the recent Commons debate on renewing Trident.
Mr. Mubarak, who is eager to resume an important position in the Middle East peace efforts, has persistently pressed the White House for an American-led peace plan, saying that was the only way to stop the violence.
Terence McKenna, who so playfully and persistently pressed his message that psychedelic drugs are mankind's salvation that Timothy Leary himself christened him "the Timothy Leary of the 90's," died on Monday at a friend's home in San Rafael, Calif.
But every now and then during one of those New York soirées, when anti-Mormon prejudice is persistently pressed and expressed, and I perhaps feel momentarily and un-Mormonly emboldened by wine, I begin to try and share my slim understanding of Joseph Smith and my fascination with the Latter-day Saints. Latter-day Saints
At the same time, he persistently, unostentatiously pressed on with the preparation of the book that he knew would be a masterpiece.
Hypertension is diagnosed as persistently high pressure in the arteries.
But the steely Mr Kloppers, his reputation restored, looks likely to press on as persistently as the trains rumbling across the Pilbara.
Russian press reports have persistently suggested that the Kursk submarine, which went down in the Barents Sea in August with the loss of 118 lives, was testing a new variation of the torpedo.
It's a persistently controversial story, and with international press and government attention currently fixed on how best to treat transgender children and how schools should set policies about them, Maines's story cuts straight through to the heart of what it means to live as a trans child.
