11.   Since then, he said, it has persisted at a lower level.

12.   The deficits persisted at high levels.

13.   This rage persists at some levels.

14.   Three current or former employees of Kelly Air Force Base say racial tension persists at the complex, with one worker accusing his supervisors of complicity.

15.   When questions about the matter persisted at a news conference a day later, he abruptly ended the session and left the room.

16.   Yet the Buckley influence persists at Yale.

17.   You wonder if he would persist at making that point if Pitino were not going to be his coach.

18.   Clear to partly cloudy skies prevailed across the northeast Caribbean this morning as very weak high pressure persisted at the lower levels of the atmosphere.

19.   Despite the smiles, some difficulties also persisted at the Grbavica crossing.

20.   Human rights organizations say torture and long-term detentions persist at secret prisons.