Mr. Fisher said that if deficits persist, it would be easy for the government to return to selling 30-year bonds.

Despite the government's efforts to increase poultry and livestock production, deficits in meat supply persist.

People do not expect the deficits to persist.

The deficit has persisted since November.

Although their neurological deficits frequently persist, disease progression in these patients remits.

But, he said, deficits that "cumulate to ever-increasing net external debt, with its attendant rise in serving costs, cannot persist indefinitely."

Without enough savings, the deficit will persist, and with it, the need to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars from abroad.

The patient could use the robot until he recovered, or perhaps for the rest of his life, if the deficit persisted.

Since 1951 the West German economy had greatly expanded, while in France a deficit had persisted.

A multimillion-dollar deficit persists, and county officials are demanding a major reorganization.