The device that Conrad called "irony" persists across these variations.
Sporadic violence persists across the country, especially in the east.
Ethnic inequality – the political and economic disadvantages felt by racial minority groups – persists across the globe.
Fighting persists across much of northern and eastern Congo, and the potential for renewed violence elsewhere is high.
While the DoJ should be applauded for these efforts, they represent only a small drop in the vast ocean of criminal justice inequality that persists across the nation.
"Especially for boys, there is thought to be a relative-age effect that persists across sports and over time," said Friedman.
The current unemployment rate among black Americans is almost 16%; among whites the figure is under 10%.The yawning gap between blacks and whites persists across demographic lines.
"The gap persists across all income levels," said Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, who has written extensively on improving the academic achievement of black students.
Racial profiling of motorists by the police persists across Texas despite laws and regulations intended to discourage it, a report commissioned by human rights and civil liberties groups said.
Yet preventing the spread of the disease will also require tackling the stigma that persists across much of the developing world, and stops people from getting tested, seeking treatment and admitting their positive status to others.
Following Richard Dawkins, he sees the unit of selection, that which persists across generations, as the gene, a prime mover embedded like a computer program driving the "lumbering robot" that is the living organism.
