Humans have a pretty persistent habit of paving over nature to create cities. (treehugger.com)
10:37 - You can add to that some really rather odd behaviour, not least the company's persistent habit of paying out massive severance payments (in Rebekah Brooks» case something like # 1.7 million) to former employees who are being interviewed by police and have run the company's reputation into the mud. (politics.co.uk)
At the same time we are held back by what often amounts to nothing more than a buzzing horde of small, persistent habits. (religion-online.org)