Sentence examples for rather persistent from inspiring English sources

He concludes: The problem in America today is therefore not wealth but rather persistent poverty.

A mandatory head check with the camp nurse that turned up a rather persistent case of head lice.

But he comes from an old and prominent Hudson Valley family, is reasonably well-connected, has been active in protecting the Hudson and has become rather persistent in pushing his solution to one of the region's vehicular Rubik's Cubes.

A slowdown is not a sign of failure, they say; rather, persistent rapid growth suggests unusually good fortune or policy.In China that has meant a broad move toward more liberal markets.

Anomalies in the position of the Gulf Stream Labrador Current boundary, which produce a greater or lesser extent of warm water near the Grand Banks, so affect the energy supply to the atmosphere and the development and steering of weather systems from that region that they are associated with rather persistent anomalies of weather pattern over the British Isles and northern Europe.

As Frede argues, skeptics find themselves with a rather persistent thought, without having accepted it as true in actual fact.

They don't always require an excessive amount of time, but rather a persistent and unrelenting focus.

The latest forecasts for the Paris area late this afternoon suggested that the track, already described as "soft", will receive showers rather than persistent rain over the weekend.

It would be interesting to see more such oddly doctored chairs, but the exhibition samples the variety of Mr. Peteran's output rather than persistent themes.

The story that Warren told gave the Party an answer, because she did not see a collapse of institutional authority or politics but, rather, a persistent set of corruptions in which the systems of regulation bent toward a very few, very wealthy people.

I have also faced rather smaller, persistent frustrations, such as never being able to find a pair of site boots less than three sizes too big and the seemingly minor yet critical issue of forgetting a site visit and wearing a skirt to work.