"With the economy in a persistent state of below-trend growth, the Fed has cover" to cut interest rates, DeKaser says.
Banishing Japan's persistent state of mild deflation has been a key policy pledge of prime minister Shinzo Abe, whose conservative Liberal Democratic Party returned to power last month after three years in opposition.
Her parents rejected the doctors' diagnosis that Terri was in a persistent vegetative state, and insisted she could recover.
At the extreme end of the scale, the consequences of head injury are death, persistent vegetative state or severe physical and mental disablement.
Since 1993, a total of 43 patients in a persistent vegetative state, or PVS, have died after a judge ordered that treatment could be withdrawn.
In her petition, Pinki Virani said that Ms Shanbaug had been in a "persistent vegetative state" for 37 years and was "virtually a dead person".
The new law, however, provides for death penalty in cases of rape that leads to death or leaves the victim in a "persistent vegetative state".
The person may enter a persistent vegetative state or brain death.
Weeks after the accident, the diagnosis became clear: Ryan was in a persistent vegetative state because he had been deprived of oxygen for 15 to 20 minutes.
Claire Watson, appearing for the trust, said it was the unanimous view of clinicians and independent experts that the patient, from Greater Manchester, was in a persistent vegetative state.
Florida's statute-suggested living will, for example, directs life-prolonging treatments to be stopped if there is "no reasonable medical probability" of recovery from a terminal condition or persistent vegetative state.
The powers conferred nearly always include the power to forgo or terminate medical care if, in the opinion of your physician, you are in a persistent vegetative state without hope of recovery, and medical care would only artificially delay your death.
Your health care durable power of attorney should express whether you wish to receive medical care if, in the opinion of your physician, you are in a persistent vegetative state without hope of recovery, and medical care would only artificially delay your death.
Keeping as much state persistent across sessions as possible.
For example, Gov. Chris Christie has been a persistent critic of the state's practice of sending more aid to 31 districts identified by courts as being particularly poor or underfunded.
Many governments were already on a heightened state of alert due to vague but persistent intelligence suggesting an attack may be imminent in Europe or elsewhere.
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Attorneys for Cunningham and the state are scheduled to argue over allegations of persistent false advertising Tuesday in Hamilton County.
The government's answer to years of persistent inflation has been price controls and Mercal, a state-owned and subsidised grocery chain that offers a limited selection of staples at discounts of up to 40%.
Nattress, who lives in Snohomish, Washington state, believes US Janeism is an expression of a persistent Anglophile streak in American society.
In the neighbouring state of New South Wales, rivers swollen by weeks of persistent rain are expected to start bursting their banks this weekend amid downpours across the region.
The Russian state may never be able to regain parity with the West, but it can be a powerful and persistent nuisance.
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