This translated into exports persistently higher than imports.

The telephone on my desk rang persistently and loudly.

Gradually and persistently, the fundamentalism of money must be eliminated.

MOSCOW Western leaders and observers persistently repeat, like a mantra, that Russia is weak.

Monetarists insist that economies experience inflation when money supply growth persistently exceeds output growth.

And the student that persistently turns out the best visual product did not disappoint.

Why seemingly healthy body areas can hurt persistently, and thereby disable a person, still eludes explanation.

Moreover, persistently low oil prices induce a fall in investment in new capacity, further undermining global demand.

Both schools have tried and failed to overcome the high income economies persistently weak performance in recent years.

In fact, Israel persistently conflates self defense and deterrence, while employing collective punishment to advance its strategic aims.

Growth momentum has fizzled and, with inflation persistently high, Indian producers are struggling to compete in world markets.

WASHINGTON, DC The financial crisis that began in 2007 has been persistently marked by muddled thinking and haphazard policymaking.

Persistently low interest rates have been particularly challenging for pension funds, which face rising liabilities (calculated on a discounted basis).

I have been writing for the past five years persistently trying to understand how words slide and fall and play.

Although US politicians focus on the bilateral trade deficit with China which is persistently large what matters is the multilateral balance.

Though CBC journalists confirmed that the IMSI catchers were being persistently used around Parliament, they were not able to determine who was using them.

Persistently weak labor productivity growth has created a situation in which unit labor costs do not fall, even if real wages remain stagnant or decline.

The Communal Police chief, who persistently defended the proven misconduct of his subordinates, simply MUST know the regulations of the office and must apply them.

It was primarily for this reason that the regime persistently shelled the mosque, destroying its minaret, in an attempt to crush the spirits of protestors.

Of course, if two economies have persistently different rates of inflation, then the exchange rate between their currencies will not tend to return to its historic level.

But Southern Europe s economies remain depressed, and the eurozone as a whole is suffering from stagnant growth, deflationary pressure, and, in the crisis countries, persistently high unemployment.

Australia has a balance of payments that is more than 7 of GDP negative, and has had persistently large current account deficits for more than 50 years.

Despite recent hopes of recovery in the US, including an inventory catch up in the fourth quarter of 2011, real US GDP growth has remained persistently below trend.

Persistently high unemployment forced workers to accept lower wages and longer working hours, while wages continued to increase by 2 3 per year in the eurozone s booming peripheral countries.

Customary land rights have not been respected, with families without formal land title being persistently disadvantaged in the compensation process despite Rio Tinto s commitment to respecting traditional land tenure .

By persistently adhering to a planned economy and obsolete ideology, North Korea is trapped in a vicious cycle, suffering from unstable food supplies and low, or sometimes negative, economic growth.

But sub prime mortgages would probably not have been supplied on the same scale if central banks had not created an environment of ample liquidity and persistently low interest rates.

The little girl, sitting at the table, persistently and firmly hammered on it with the stopper of a bottle, gazing blankly at her mother with her two black currants of eyes.

The Maoists enter the government still with their own army confined to cantonments, with their weapons stored under UN monitoring and a Young Communist League that has persistently acted outside the law.

The Syrian regime, backed by its Russian and Iranian allies, persistently targeted the mosque in the battle for control of the city that raged following its capture by rebel forces in 2012.

The International Monetary Fund has persistently warned Ukraine that its dollar peg could cause a financial crisis because of over or undervaluation, and for years has called on Ukraine to free its exchange rate.

They were often the first to lose their jobs in the early 1990's, and they have been persistently blocked from reentering the labor force due to their often inadequate skills and pervasive discrimination.

In a letter to members released on Twitter on Thursday night, the JDC's chair Ellen McCourt said the government had remained persistently silent on issues which, she said, had resulted in the contract being rejected.

Even those who dislike him sometimes conclude that he is the best all the possible options, and he has improved his position by persistently weeding out Chechen military forces that are not directly under his command.

The United States Federal Reserve Board has done a much better job, though it, too, has moved in fits and starts, repeatedly playing catch up with a crisis that has persistently remained one step ahead of policy.

Medical and public health advances have increased longevity in developed countries, while persistently low fertility levels and the end of the post WWII baby boom mean that the number of native born workers will fall in the coming years.

It now seems clear that the structural and balance sheet impediments to growth have been persistently underestimated, but it is far less clear whether officials have the capacity to identify the critical issues and the political will to address them.

Growth momentum has fizzled and, with inflation persistently high, Indian producers are struggling to compete in world markets. The current account deficit is increasing relentlessly, owing to a widening trade deficit (now at 13 of GDP), raising the danger of a balance of payments crisis.

Europe also must at last grasp the nettle of immigration policy something that has persistently eluded generations of political leaders. Agreed EU wide immigration rules are needed to reconcile shrinking Europe s hunger for imported labor with widespread fears of cultural tensions and social unrest.

Despite recent hopes of recovery in the US, including an inventory catch up in the fourth quarter of 2011, real US GDP growth has remained persistently below trend. Moreover, although seasonally adjusted January employment data have brought the unemployment rate down to 8.3 (while total jobs were actually lost in January), the more realistic rate of underemployment remains over 15 and the labor force participation rate is at a record 30 year low.