Prior had previously been picked apart for his persistent failure to convert starts into substantial scores.

More especially, what accounts for Labour's abject and persistent failures?

The 1996 law also gave the chancellor the power to fire a superintendent for "persistent educational failure."

His international career was blighted by his persistent failure to turn up to training.

It will introduce elements of privatization to deal with persistent failures in reading and math skills among the city's 214,000 students.

But the new measure would give chancellors the authority to step in when they show "persistent educational failure."

The result was persistent failure and defeat on every frontier.

The scandal is the persistent failure of the church hierarchy to comprehend, to care and to protect.

The 1996 school governance law grants him the power to remove principals from their schools for "persistent educational failure."

For principals, persistent failure could mean being ousted from the schools.