Iran has persistently rejected talks during the past few years.
Ministers have persistently rejected claims that the rise in referrals to food banks has been driven by sanctions and delays in benefit payments, but Hatton said the link was incontrovertible.
Dr Jim Anderson from the University of Stirling, who led the research team, said: "We found the monkeys accepted food less frequently from the human performers who persistently rejected the other person's requests for help.
"Anyone who persistently rejects God's revelation about sexual holiness and virtue is rejecting Christianity altogether, even if they claim otherwise".
Although allograft rejection can be delayed if the recipient's immune system is persistently suppressed, a significant fraction of allografts are still rejected within 5 years of transplantation [ 75].
Israel's propaganda machine persistently purveyed the notion that the Palestinians are terrorists, that they reject coexistence with the Jewish state, that their nationalism is little more than antisemitism, that Hamas is just a bunch of religious fanatics and that Islam is incompatible with democracy.
In other words he rejected the timetable that Putin and his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, persistently put forward: that Ukrainian forces should withdraw from the eastern provinces and then, and only when they were out or at least fully stood down, could negotiations begin.
It remains controversial whether Berlin's view of culture was holistic, and, if so, to what extent and in what way; but it has been maintained most notably and persistently by Steven Lukes that pluralism can be rescued from the shoals of relativism if the pluralist rejects a holistic conception of culture, which, Lukes maintains, is fundamentally mistaken (Lukes 1994, 1995, 1998, 2001).
Alan Bennett has rejected both a knighthood and a CBE for services to literature, but the most persistently ungrateful nominee was the painter LS Lowry, who turned down five awards, including a knighthood.
Judge Charles Wide, rejected her appeal and ordered her to pay £4,080 in costs, saying she had been persistently untruthful as well as corrupt.
