Since neither the UN nor the troika had asked him to continue mediations in the face of Russia's persistent refusal to support independence for Kosovo, he said he would nonetheless be willing to take on " a role as consultant ", if requested.

In November 1895 he formed his own cabinet, distinctively radical, which fell as the result of a constitutional crisis arising from the persistent refusal of the senate to vote supply.

In time he grew increasingly out of step with the American Jewish community by his persistent refusal to recognize Jews as a people and despite obvious flaws in his view of American democracy.

Also merchant vessels which did demonstrate " persistent refusal to stop " or " active resistance " could be sunk without the ship's crew and passengers being first delivered to a " place of safety ".

Also, unarmed merchant vessels which did not demonstrate " persistent refusal to stop ... or active resistance to visit or search " could not be sunk without the ships ' crews and passengers being first delivered to " a place of safety " ( for which lifeboats did not qualify, except under particular circumstances ).

He had undoubtedly played a considerable role in the conspiracy of 1821, being the most influential and richest of the Milanese Liberals ; when first arrested his conduct may have been open to criticism, but he more than expiated any temporary weakness due to ill-health and to the barbarous methods of examination by his heroic attitude during his long imprisonment, and his persistent refusal to accept offers of pardon accompanied by dishonouring conditions.

The APSAC Taskforce ( 2006 ) gives examples of such lists ranging across multiple domains from some elements within the DSM-IV criteria to entirely non-specific behavior such as developmental lags, destructive behaviors, refusal to make eye contact, cruelty to animals and siblings, lack of cause and effect thinking, preoccupation with fire, blood and gore, poor peer relationships, stealing, lying, lack of a conscience, persistent nonsense questions or incessant chatter, poor impulse control, abnormal speech patterns, fighting for control over everything, and hoarding or gorging on food.

Coakley opposed with a brief stating that, under military law, a persistent refusal to work by two or more men — something that might be called a " strike " among civilians — was sufficient proof of a conspiracy to override superior military authority and was equivalent to mutiny.

" His behaviour included threats of violence, persistent insubordination, refusal to work and repeatedly absconding from work parties.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

One of the finest soft shoe tunes ever invented, `` Once In Love With Amy '' is also, of course, one of the most tantalizingly persistent of light love lyrics to come out of American musical comedy in our era.

Most recently the term persistent organic pollutant ( POP ) has come to describe a group of chemicals such as PBDEs and PFCs among others.

These women were persistent in striving to make their names known in the music industry and lead the way for many more women artists to come.

Because of persistent debate, answered and unanswered questions, and conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination and the possible related role of the grassy knoll, the term " grassy knoll " has come to also be a modern slang expression indicating suspicion, conspiracy, or a cover-up.

Without Bauer's persistent involvement, the Auschwitz trials in Frankfurt might never have come to fruition.

King Boleslaus and Boris were defeated near the Sajó River on 22 July, but Boris was to prove a persistent claimant for a number of years to come.

After Dupac is defeated and Fujin comes to invite Kongo to heaven later on, Fanya is very persistent to come with him as to stay by Kongo's side.

As a country that has been devastated by civil war and persistent ethnic violence since its independence in 1962, Burundi's new constitution ( approved in a February 2005 referendum ) requires that 60 % of the deputies be from the Hutu ethnic group, while the remaining 40 % come from the Tutsi ethnic group.

Overwhelmed with the care of five young children and concerned about persistent economic difficulties due to her husband's marginal income, her defense of denial was excessively strong.

Species can be recognized by their rosettes of more or less folded leaves with persistent bases and quite prominent nonglandular hairs.

Many species have an erect woody stem which is covered with persistent dried leaves unless there have been fires, topped by a crown of long thin leaves.

A persistent dry cough is a relatively common adverse effect believed to be associated with the increases in bradykinin levels produced by ACE inhibitors, although the role of bradykinin in producing these symptoms remains disputed by some authors.

The beer should be clear, and colour can range from light copper to brown, with a bountiful and persistent off-white head.

Colour can range from deep gold to light amber with a large, creamy, persistent white head, and moderate to moderately high carbonation, while alcohol content ranges from 6. 3 % to 7. 4 % by volume.

Signs and symptoms of the depressive phase of bipolar disorder include persistent feelings of sadness, anxiety, guilt, anger, isolation, or hopelessness ; disturbances in sleep and appetite ; fatigue and loss of interest in usually enjoyable activities ; problems concentrating ; loneliness, self-loathing, apathy or indifference ; depersonalization ; loss of interest in sexual activity ; shyness or social anxiety ; irritability, chronic pain ( with or without a known cause ); lack of motivation ; and morbid suicidal ideation.

A mesothermal climate lacks persistent heat or persistent cold, with potential evaporation between and.

A megathermal climate is one with persistent high temperatures and abundant rainfall, with potential annual evaporation in excess of.

Coyotes are persistent hunters, with successful attacks sometimes lasting as long as 21 hours ; even unsuccessful ones can continue more than eight hours before the coyotes give up.

He surrounded Donald Duck and nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie with a cast of eccentric and colorful characters, such as the aforementioned Scrooge McDuck, the wealthiest duck in the world ; Gladstone Gander, Donald's obscenely lucky cousin ; inventor Gyro Gearloose ; the persistent Beagle Boys ; the sorceress Magica De Spell ; Scrooge's rivals Flintheart Glomgold and John D. Rockerduck ; Daisy's nieces April, May and June ; Donald's neighbor Jones, and The Junior Woodchucks organization.

A persistent rumor is that debossed ( imprinted with stamped in letters ) dog tags were issued from World War II till the end of the Vietnam War and that currently the U. S. military is issuing embossed ( imprinted with raised letters ) dog tags.

For instance, Winter cites the example of a patient with a persistent headache supposedly tracing the problem to a doctor saying " Take him now " during the preclear's birth.

Contemporary issues include problems with border controls causing persistent truck queues at the border, airspace violations, pollution of the Baltic Sea, and Russian duties on exported wood to Finland's pulp and paper industry.

Like many post-Soviet countries, Georgia went through a period of sharp economic decline during 1990s, with high inflation and large budget deficits, due to persistent tax evasion.

Initially, the President was merely a symbolic figure with the Reichstag dominant ; however, persistent political instability, in which governments often lasted only a few months, led to a change in the power structure of the republic, with the president's emergency powers called increasingly into use to prop up governments challenged by critical or even hostile Reichstag votes.

These homes would share toilet facilities, have open sewers and would be at risk of developing pathologies associated with persistent dampness.

Likewise, schooling attainment is often persistent across generations and families with higher amounts of inheritance are able to acquire and transmit higher amounts of human capital.

Libertarian socialism has frequently linked its anti-authoritarian political aspirations with this theoretical differentiation from orthodoxy ... Karl Korsch ... remained a libertarian socialist for a large part of his life and because of the persistent urge towards theoretical openness in his work.

Although he was aware of the persistent desertions that were reducing the size of his army and that the army was running short of food and other critical supplies, he did not know that the American army was also daily growing in size, or that Gates had intelligence on how dire the situation was in his camp.

Rome: Total War was released to critical acclaim, and has been well received by gamers, going on to generate a persistent and loyal modding fanbase.

The democratic orientation of Kramskoi ’ s art, his acute critical judgments about it, and his persistent quest for objective public criteria for the evaluation of art exerted an essential influence on the development of democratic art and aesthetics in Russia in the last third of the nineteenth century.

: The wrong view of science betrays itself in the craving to be right ; for it is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.

He wrote: " we are aware of our precarious imbalance: of our persistent and ever-increasing production of power and our inadequacy of purpose ; of our critical analytic ability and our creative paucity ; of our triumphantly efficient technical education and our ineffective, irrelevant education for values, for meaning, for the training of the will, the lifting of the heart, and the illumination of the mind.