0 past simple and past participle of persist --
1 If an unpleasant feeling or situation persists, it continues to exist: --
However, the problem persisted that the flexibility was achieved only at a single point.
Psychotic beliefs persisted despite the realization they are not shared but not because patients cannot reflect on them and compare them with what others believe.
After application of the palliative option, approximately half of the patients persisted in their request.
Although voting in presidential elections became more partisan relative to congressional elections, cross-party voting in congressional elections persisted.
One should not, therefore, conclude from the fact that duelling persisted for so long that it was universally or even very widely supported.
In less than 1 %, symptoms persisted for several weeks.
By contrast, the political ambivalence between relieving distress and controlling threats and inefficiency has persisted throughout.
Yet, the same formal structures, informal relational ties, and coordination procedures that were present in the 1950s persisted through 1998.
