"Did you say something?" I ask vaguely, persisting with my strategy of evasion.
With few Israeli analysts demonstrating any confidence that Israel could muster the two-thirds support in Congress needed to overcome a presidential veto, a chorus of voices warned against persisting with a strategy they fear has left Israel increasingly marginalised.
For all the changes in Virginia and elsewhere, vestiges of the Southern strategy persist in some Republican quarters.
He could have persisted with that strategy or recommended spinal fusion, a major operation in which the surgeon removes the parts of the disk that are torn or degenerated and fuses bone to stabilize the trouble spot.
In particular, differences in contemporary discussions of strategy persist between optimists, who think that the wisely instructed strategist has a better than even chance (other things being equal) to control his fate, and pessimists (such as Clausewitz), who believe that error, muddle, and uncertainty are the norm in war and therefore that chance plays a more substantial role.
I refer also to the complex institutional arrangements that have developed in the U.S. to prevent company managers from persisting with mistaken strategies.
England seem determined not to pick five bowlers, but you wonder whether they can really persist with the strategy, because they really have nothing beyond their frontline four at the moment.
He had persisted with his strategy of standing his ground attacking the Bodyline bowling, but was unsuccessful.
However, this subject persisted in her strategy during the control condition, in which the trap was inverted 180 degrees, rendering it non-functional.
Closer examination showed that alternative stable states were possible, one with either all cheaters (n* = 0) or all cooperators (n* = 1), and a second with both strategies persisting (0 < n* < 1).
