1.   And this economy persists to a substantial degree, courtesy of both the climate and exploitable migrant and illegal-alien labor.

2.   In one patient symptoms became much less marked after one month but persisted to death at three months.

3.   But there is only injustice when preventable suffering is allowed to persist to the point where a person would rather be dead.

4.   The process which Peter had set in motion persisted to a considerable extent after his death.

5.   The first ship, Murex, was named after a shell, a tradition which has persisted to the present.

6.   After the virus has been irradiated for the most part, damage may persist to the nerves that were infected in the first place, and discomfort can persist.

7.   But he said U.S. troops may finally snuff out the threat posed by Muslim insurgents, which has persisted to varying degrees for decades.

8.   Patterns played at the beginning of a song tend to persist to the end.