persistent failure

collocation in English

meaningsofpersistentandfailure

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persistent
adjective
uk
/pəˈsɪs.tənt/us
/pɚˈsɪs.tənt/
lasting for a long time or difficult to get ...
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failure
noun
uk
/ˈfeɪ.ljər/us
/ˈfeɪ.ljɚ/
the fact of someone or something ...
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(Definition ofpersistentandfailurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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An equally important factor was thepersistentfailureof the federal government to check the activities of the vigilantes or their political patrons.
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Persistentfailurewill result in parenting orders, fines or fast-track court action.
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The remaining cases each involved a variety of reasons, principally thepersistentfailureto comply with regulations applying to employment agencies.
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How could suchpersistentfailurebe established unless a police officer was permanently stationed in the shop?
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In cases ofpersistentfailure, it is likely that a range of measures will have already been tried.
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In any ordinary campaign when a commander is dogged withpersistentfailurehe is relieved.
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Urgent intervention would occur only in exceptional circumstances where there is clear evidence of serious orpersistentfailure.
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Thispersistentfailureto provide an acceptable standard of education cannot be tolerated.
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Persistentfailureto deal with leakage levels might even result in a review of existing licences.
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Another example that she gave was thepersistentfailureto restore supplies after predictable power outages in winter.
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Will he try to appreciate that the home producers of alkyd resins cannot understand hispersistentfailureto consider the position?
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The problem is that there has been apersistentfailureto implement those reports in the national health service.
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We are now paying the price forpersistentfailureto get our unit costs down to competitive levels.
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Take thepersistentfailurein schools, hospitals, universities, tower blocks, roads, pensions, police, and so much else.
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The other cause for censure waspersistentfailureto pay out housing benefit for a long time.
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There comes a point where a continuous andpersistentfailureto do so becomes an urgent matter.
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Such sanctions as are available apply topersistentfailureto file accounts.
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The penalties would not in practice be levied, except in the most blatant case ofpersistentfailure.
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Is that an example of an authority with apersistentfailureto raise standards of education?
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I addition, the agency has the power to revoke an authorization—in effect, to shut down the process—where, for example, there has beenpersistentfailureto comply with conditions.
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