The violence raged for days and persisted for more than two months, claiming almost 1,000 lives.

The longer the violence persists, the more Iraqis are running out of money and options.

The region has been relatively quiet for two weeks, but daily violence persists.

This violence persisted long after the 1992 election with postelection violence reports in 1998, 2002, and 2007.

"If the violence persists, who's going to be left to have a relationship with?"

Neighborhood watch groups do their best, but violence persists.

But political violence, sometimes deadly, is persisting, threatening to disrupt any voting.

Political violence persisted, heightened and made more intense by the fact that the elections of 1987 were approaching.

And as long as the violence in Iraq persists, they must be protected from attack.

Since the end of the civil war in 1970, some ethnic violence has persisted.