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Third, the Aborigines were widely thought of as backward and uncivilised and, while this attitude persisted, their nomenclature carried no great recommendation.
This high expression in the luteolytic CL-I persisted through estrous of the next cycle.
According to the FAA, the record had shown that the longer a hijacking persisted, the more likely it was to end peacefully.
If infants persisted in bawling or shitting or generally irking, it could be assumed they were changelings--spawns of the devil--in which case they were turned out of doors or killed.
(Smokey Mountain persisted because the Philippines, until recently, did not share in the export-led growth of its neighbors.