When Bar Kamza showed up, the host refused to let him stay, persisting in his rudeness even when Bar Kamza offered to pay for all the food and drink.
So while a normal young adult might have accepted that gardening was for retirement, bought a larger television, and stayed indoors, I persisted year after year.
Akerman responded sharply, "Is that how you talk to your friends?" The woman stayed silent; Akerman persisted, asking whether the question represented the way that the young woman talks in real life and wondering why that's the way she chose to talk to Akerman.
However, for those populations that persisted and stayed isolated in these refugia for long enough, they would diverge and eventually speciate (Vrba 1980 , 1985 1992) (the Pulse phase of her hypothesis).
For a time, they report, "it looked as if they now saw the hazards in the debt trap and persisted in staying out of it".
In chronic infection, anti-worm antibodies stayed high, reflecting persisting worm burdens, whereas anti-egg IgG remained high despite minimized egg excretion.
International NGOs went in to provide emergency assistance but stayed as poverty and inequality persisted after the war.
These stay-at-home tendencies persisted through at least the 1950s.
By staying focused and persisting with this goal, will I have a meaningful impact on the problem I'm trying to solve?
For anyone who has lived through the epic growth and renovation of the city that began after its near death in the mid-'70s, as I have, the opposite is also true: the very act of staying the same, preserving, persisting, is the defiant act.
