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The latest EPI report also highlights a persistent issue with students dropping out of courses early.

However, Mr Bailey said the prosecution's case was that Ms Riaz's injuries were caused by "sustained, persistent, deliberate, and intentional application of severe force".

This means that instead of moving through a region relatively quickly, they get blocked over the same area leading to persistent rainfall for several days.

As new attitudes and styles arrived — the avant-garde of the 1960s, the fusion of the ’70s and ’80s — he quickly grasped their techniques and incorporated them into his own persistent musical vision.

He notes that recent research suggests that the Northeast may continue to see more persistent weather systems—dry and wet—and thus more “weather whiplash.”