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Still Davis persisted and took any kind of work.
I suppose that the dinner table discussion in the film between Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Stefania Sandrelli and Irene Papas (bizarrely taking place in four languages, and everyone pretends to understand Papas's Greek!), must have been arranged as a tribute to the man who persisted in writing and directing this film despite being in his nineties.
But he persisted until his 3rd book PRISONER OF ZENDA and its sequel made him rich and famous.
But Turkey persisted.
But they have persisted on this course in the face of a fierce campaign to dissuade them – including threats of Israeli sanctions and a cut-off of financial support to the Palestinian Authority by the US Congress – owing to their wholly understandable lack of confidence that anything will move without some new spark.
After all, the current strategy has not really worked either as a deterrent against conventional attacks (which persisted throughout the years that Israel supposedly developed its nuclear arsenal) or as a warning to rivals (such as Iran) against developing a nuclear weapon.
Again and again, local and international economists have issued dire warnings about what would happen if it persisted in its heterodoxy.
Because the price slump has persisted, by 2015 capital controls were being tightened and currency pegs were being adjusted or abandoned.
But the undervaluation of the renminbi, which is currently 45%, has persisted for many years.
Mubarak has been re-elected four times, and rumors have persisted that he will either seek a fifth six-year term or establish a "hereditary republic" and groom his 41-year old son, Gamal, to succeed him, like Syria's Hafez al-Assad and son, Bashar.
But the myth of European supranationalism persisted.
These hypotheses (which are not mutually exclusive) are especially helpful in understanding both why rates were drifting lower prior to the crisis and why the downturn has persisted.
As I acknowledged at the time, that prediction certainly had merit; nonetheless, I persisted in contending that the tribunal could eventually bring to justice many of those most responsible.
Yet the group has persisted.
Some features of the old system eroded further after 1992, under the Maastricht Treaty, but others persisted.
Such extraordinary backlogs have persisted – and can undermine the rule of law.
That threat – or at least the threat of East and West Germany both being completely destroyed – persisted until the end of Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
When I asked people, during my visits to Buenos Aires, why Argentina persisted in this economic folly, a single answer came back: "Yes, when Brazil went off its peg, its inflation remained moderate; but Brazil is Brazil, and we are Argentina."
These differences have persisted in the most recent decade, even though tepid economic growth and labor displacement by smarter machines have weakened demand for high-skill, high-cognition occupations.
But the bigger issue in the region is the conflict between Shia and Sunni Muslims, a divide that has persisted for more than a thousand years.
Deflationary pressure in Japan – and only in Japan – has persisted for well over a decade.
Such claims have persisted, despite the ongoing monetary-policy-driven, low-inflation recoveries in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Employment growth persisted for the remainder of Obama’s time in office, reaching record-breaking levels: the US economy added more than 15 million jobs during Obama’s remaining years.
These gaps have persisted, because in the 1990s, when the MDGs were being formulated, most people, including me, did not adequately understand the scale or complexity of the problem.
Yet the US deficits have persisted, and even risen, since then.
For example, China persisted with its unannounced rare-earth embargo against Japan for seven weeks while continuing to claim in public that no export restrictions had been imposed.
Long before it became fashionable, Kaufman persisted with the idea that the US real estate boom was fueled in part by pervasive fraud within the mortgage-securitization-derivatives complex, effectively at the heart of Wall Street.
Yet Coubertin persisted in his dream of apolitical brotherhood.
This situation had persisted for two decades.
Only then would Yale and other institutions be forced to reckon publicly with a problem that has persisted for generations.
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