Meaning persists as a possibility that cannot be eliminated.
Only the outer layer of the outer integument generally persists as a membranous seed coat.
So this region persists as a northern version of the Confederacy: poor but proud of a distant, glorious past.
Still, to the extent that India, with its many languages and cultures, persists as a cohesive national entity, the language of Macaulay plays a large role.
Whether or not the Rhodes persists as a major force in jazz, for the moment its role is one of revitalization.
But the past persists, as a burden or opportunity, depending on one's perspective, more so here than perhaps anywhere else in Europe.
Nearly half a century on, the image persists as a reassuring definition of masculinity in a culture that is no longer quite so sure what masculinity is.
Ironically, though the urban crime wave is over, it still persists as a kind of zombified general terror, particularly in places where it was never particularly acute.
At concerts and in clubs, Queensbridge persists as a misnomer, evoked to represent the entire borough: a rogue symbol of Queens' scrappy tenacity and opaque borders.
The anal opening in some exceptional cases (urodele amphibians) is derived directly from the blastopore, which persists as a narrow canal after completion of gastrulation.
Slashdot persists as a must-read publication for the wizardly set, and especially those within the community of developers and fans of "open source" software like Linux, which is created and improved by legions of volunteers.
