But their persistent presence over several days had betrayed them.
But there are areas of the province where the Americans have not established a persistent presence, the assessment says.
He energized the attack with his ball-handling and persistent presence in the middle of the action.
The persistent, though sometimes oblique presence of the body is still a vital concern of many sculptors.
Mary's persistent presence in the line of men would soon lead to her being known to them by the nickname Bloody Mary.
Their small but persistent presence was a constant reminder that you were no longer in the frontier generation.
But everyone agreed the Hurricanes have been a persistent presence.
Gennadi Saveliev was a quiet, yet persistent, presence in this role.
The dead were a persistent presence because of the limitations of the technology of the day.
Because of the persistent presence of the ice sheet, the island is sometimes taken to be part of Antarctica.