The reality is we have stubbornly high levels of unemployment, with a small increase in the last quarter.

Unemployment remains stubbornly high and our economy continues to struggle.

Nevertheless, levels of teenage drinking and drug use remain stubbornly high.

Though economic growth has resumed, unemployment remains stubbornly high, at 11 percent.

He voiced a concern that stubbornly high long-term rates would hold the economy back.

Yet today's numbers reinforced the sense that unemployment in Europe will remain stubbornly high.

But a stubbornly high American trade deficit implies failure as well.

For example, about 12,000 of us die every year in an accident, and that figure remains stubbornly high.

Despite the cost of living remaining stubbornly high during 2010, analysts believe the Bank is in no rush to raise interest rates.

Since the 1980s, the level of female unemployment has remained stubbornly high and is still on the increase.