Others merely rolled their eyes at the persistence of a tabloid trope.
The persistence of a quotation he insists is an "urban legend" is evidently infuriating Howard Dean.
It's there in the length of a song, the persistence of a scent, the flash of a light bulb.
Given the conditions, there is nothing surprising about the persistence of a clandestine drug trade in the region.
The violence across Iraq is unspeakable, and so is the persistence of a crass routine inside the Green Zone.
The Baltimore Ravens' defense came here with the persistence of a collection agency, exacting a painful payback from Chad Pennington for his almost supernatural regular season.
His friends call this "Rowan's Obama syndrome": the persistence of a commendable but not very realistic belief in the power of reason to turn your enemies into allies.
None of which would have come without the persistence of a minor league hitting coach who saw perfection when no one else did.
Addressing the column to his children doesn't make this better, but worse; it is a look at the mechanics behind the persistence of a racial divide.
The result is warfare in both Afghanistan and Iraq whose closest approximation to success is not victory over the insurgency, but rather the persistence of a US presence.
Black movements tend to refer to "institutionalised racism", a view endorsed, among others, by the Catholic church, which condemns discrimination and the persistence of a slave-based mindset.
