Word: persists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no abatement in the practice of the Serbs in imprisoning, torturing and murdering Montenegrin men, in mistreating and even violating women, in persecuting old men merely because they have refused to swear allegiance to the new Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and persist in maintaining that they are Montenegrins and that the sovereign rights of their country shall not be violated...
Canned salmon: numbers of seizures, because a few of the smaller canners persist in putting up rotten salmon...
...then added: "I declare that as long as the Powers, including the American Government, persist in recognition of the Wu Pei Fu clique as the Chinese Government, there will and must be disorder and strife in China...
...that they can render useful service to the nation." Of Mussolinismo-a term implying disapproval of Fascism and approval of Benito-the Premier said: "I can understand such a phenomenon, but I do not accept it. Certain people use my name to fight Fascismo. I warn them not to persist, because they might find that they have done it once too often. ... I am pictured as being surrounded by barbed wire nettings. This is a fairy story of desolating stupidity. During the 15 months of my Government one can say that the whole of Italy has passed through my office...
Every year there is more or less complaint and recrimination about the use of reserved books in the Library Reading Rooms. A few students persist in taking unfair advantage of the liberal rules; and by hiding themselves or using some other sort of strategy, defeat the purpose of the "reserved" book system, which is to give everyone the same opportunity to use books which are in great demand. Obviously, when there are two or three books which have to be read by a whole class no individual is justified in carrying off one of those rare volumes...