Word: persistive
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...continued, “Churches and creeds and metaphysical complexities persist, and we have need of them still...
...Spoken Word Society member Okechukwu W. Iweala ’06 had performed a sprawling spoken word piece, and a pair of sibling Harvard graduates now working as independent journalists for Democracy Now! encouraged the onlooking students to persist in their activist efforts...
...early to declare that we will be unsuccessful in Iraq if we strenuously persist in pursuing important goals. But the basis for believing these can be achieved is eroding. There is a growing belief in the U.S. that we do not know what we are doing in Iraq, that the U.S. is drifting and losing Iraqi support, and to use another once familiar term, that we are in a "quagmire." Regrettably, there is reason for the increasing skepticism. The Administration's basis for going to war has come to look shaky, and it clearly had little idea of what...
...vast loss of prestige and influence in the Arab world, encouragement to terrorists, and a serious decline in our unrivaled political ability to use force. But these must be matched against the costs of staying, a debate which is all too little done in public. If the worst does persist and the Administration wants to stay the course, the President must come forth and candidly tell the public not only the costs of leaving but also those of staying--the casualties, the expense, the continuing abrasions with allies, the polarization of our public life, the sidelining of other domestic...
...there was no promise that [benefits] would persist for the lifetime of any one participant,” he wrote...