1.   At low enough Rayleigh number this pattern persists indefinitely.

2.   An uncommonly dry weather pattern will persist on Friday over a large area from the southern plains states to the interior Southeast.

3.   A lot of the Victorian back-to-back housing has gone now but ancient patterns persist.

4.   But some patterns actively persist because they adapt and change.

5.   Conservative economists question whether the new pattern will persist.

6.   Each vantage point offers a different scale of view, but at each scale, the same general pattern persists.

7.   Friday, the same pattern will persist, with slow-moving thunderstorms dousing the deserts.

8.   If that pattern persists Saturday, the three-time champion may find it far more difficult to become the four-time champion than he thinks.

9.   Not surprisingly, this pattern persisted with the Congress in washington.

10.   That pattern has persisted.