Tragically, there was a persistent and eventually fatal imbalance of effectiveness between the Vietnamese Communists and their opponents.

Its persistent imbalance starts with the show's title characters.

Driving these persistent imbalances are what city officials portray as the hidden threat to the city's future fiscal health: the "nondiscretionary" costs, mostly for Medicaid, employee pensions and interest on municipal debt, that the mayor says are largely beyond his control.

Lubik and Rhodes argued that "TARGET2 merely reflects persistent imbalances in current accounts and capital accounts.

In its report on the Mayor's budget plan, the board, which monitors the city's finances, also said the city faced persistent imbalances in the years ahead because spending would continue to outpace revenues, leaving future budget gaps that will require still more austerity.

Rapid growth and a persistent imbalance in China's trade with the United States have turned Chinese exports into obvious targets during an American election year.

He criticised a reliance on models of economic theory rather than economic data, the fact that models ignored financial markets and assumed that persistent imbalances and mis-pricing of assets was very unlikely.

It is also true that neither the way in which the Stability and Growth Pact has been interpreted nor the opening of proceedings relating to excess deficit has been successful in preventing persistent imbalances in the public finances of the major European economies.

This is important in order to ascertain the impact of the monetary policy, and, in particular, to ensure that there are no persistent imbalances.

Madam President, paragraph 5 of the report from the meeting says that policy measures will be presented to correct harmful and persistent macroeconomic imbalances and improve competitiveness, but in the introduction the talk is of promoting trade with third countries.