His album problems persist here.
These, of course, persist here as well as in Africa even if they are less dramatic and less visible.
As aid flows into northern Afghanistan and life starts to return to normal in the capital, Kabul, American air attacks, banditry and slow starvation persist here.
But many commentators have called it a sort of provocation, given the lingering hurt of the incident and the tensions that persist here over race, class and French identity.
Attacks against indigenous peoples persist here in Mato Grosso do Sul, a sprawling state in southwest Brazil where multinationals like Louis Dreyfus, the French commodities giant, have put down stakes.
As for the other X factor, funky's champions point to the broken rhythms and lo-tech grittiness of some productions as proof that the spirit of innovation does persist here, it just doesn't make such a big song'n'dance about da phuture like yer Photeks and Goldies did back in the day.
The same problems don't persist here, and anything that impresses John on the photography front is a rare gem certainly worth consideration.
What persists here is the dangerous notion that we don't have a problem with racism and it means that when prejudice is pointed out, white people aren't often ready to acknowledge the ways it hurts the rest of us.
Pockets of violence persisted here and there, especially on the country's wilder fringes.
"For a while, in my high school, I was also affected by the nationalist propaganda that persists here," Vučkovac said.
