Three factors all likely to persist this year are driving these unsettling trends.

Given the current level of peacekeeping activity, those difficulties were likely to persist.

Afghanistan has been challenged by the influx of returnees, a trend that is likely to persist following the successful holding of elections.

Third, the corporate sector faces a glut of capacity, and a weak recovery of profitability is likely if growth is anemic and deflationary pressures still persist. As a result, businesses are not likely to increase capital spending.

You gotta persist through failure. You gotta persist through crap!

They want their shape to persist.

Conflicts are much more likely to arise or persist when those with the means to prevent or end them cannot or will not do so. Unfortunately, this will be borne out in 2013.

After the election, the kind of factional disputes that have long paralyzed policymaking in Iran will likely persist. But stalemate over Iran s nuclear policy could have serious consequences.

If the disbelievers persist in their disbelief, We shall also persist in punishing them.

If the disbelievers persist in their disbelief, We shall also persist in punishing them.

The establishment of marine reserves appears to result in significant increases in average levels of density, biomass, and likely diversity within 1 3 y years , and these values persist through time, they conclude.

And they used to persist in immense wrongdoing.

And they used to persist in immense wrongdoing.

And used to persist in the awful sin.

And used to persist in the awful sin.

Wars persist. Power persists.

But man desires to persist in his evil ways.

But man desires to persist in his evil ways.

and they used to persist in the great sin.

and they used to persist in the great sin.

And they used to persist in the great violation,

And they used to persist in the great violation,

Do you persist in it?

He didn't persist and left.

She'll persist in this till...

Yet the infidels persist in denial.

Yet the infidels persist in denial.

And yet, conflicts erupt and persist.

Problems thus persist, impeding the process.

Payment for ecosystem services could be a solution, though there are likely to be simpler options. But whichever mechanism is eventually adopted, we must also address the governance question today s inadequate system allows both economic and ecological losses to persist.

The fact remains that two years later these conditions seem to persist.

The Board is concerned that these control weaknesses were allowed to persist.

But to persist in obstinate condolement is a course of impious stubbornness.

And yet, I persist in this quixotic endeavor.

Significant differences persist between developed and developing countries.

The reasons that prevented their ratification persist today.

Must you persist in the face of everything?

Secondly, media campaigns to incite hatred and spread disinformation persist in Côte d'Ivoire.

But borders do persist in some parts of cyberspace.

Yet those who deny the truth persist in denial.

Yet those who deny the truth persist in denial.

And yet the Unbelievers (persist) in rejecting (the Truth)!

And yet the Unbelievers (persist) in rejecting (the Truth)!

But there are even more obstacles that stubbornly persist.

Equally though, we have noted that great challenges persist