The technical literature suggests that structural factors may have been more important than price factors in explaining the persistent deficit.

The federal budget went into persistent, alarming, deficit.

The diocese cites persistent deficits and the need for $250,000 in repairs.

Dementia is often then the most likely explanation for a persistent or residual cognitive deficit.

The health care agency, which the county spun off as a separate entity in 1999, has a persistent deficit and is running out of money.

Even before the terrorist attack the Saudi system was looking wobbly, with persistent deficits, mounting debt and growing unemployment.

Faced with the railway's persistent deficit, the colonial authority decided to close the railways.

This practice created a persistent deficit that was constantly being rolled forward.

The persistent deficits (trade, current account, budget) are eating away at the strength of our currency.

At this point, it seems that nobody will complain as long as the budget as a whole doesn't go into persistent deficit.