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do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop
We continued our research into the cause of the illness
The landlord persists in asking us to move
How To Use persist in In A Sentence
- Most of them persist in setting strict demands on themselves.
- But if it shall be otherwise -- if they stubbornly, sullenly persist in cherishing and manifesting the spirit of treason, making their motto to read, Bound, but not broken, then let the severities of immutable justice be meted out to them: let them die the death. A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
- If people persist in baselessly tarring the mainstream American left with the specter of communism, then every reference to communism is going to be interpreted as yet another shot at the mainstream left. The Volokh Conspiracy » Victims of Communism Day
- There was a lot of baffle or difficulties in all this way, I stayed in a dark abysm , but I've seen hope when persist in writing.
- What I find both amazing and aggravating is that those who insist on what they euphemistically call “single payer healthcare” refuse to even discuss the propriety of those who have preexisting conditions, or persist in the negative behaviors that lead to diseased conditions, paying higher premiums in exchange for their not being denied coverage. The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Lipstick on the Health-Reform Pig:
- Today, only a few hundred individuals of the Persian wild ass subpsecies (E.h. onager) persist in Bahram-e-Goor in the Iranian portion of the hotspot, while another subspecies of wild ass, known as the kulan or Turkmenian wild ass (E.h. kulan, CR), survives only in a single population in and around the Badkhyz Nature Reserve in south Turkmenistan, just marginally outside the hotspot. Biological diversity in the Irano-Anatolian
- The hustle and hurry of the job persist in a surreal atmosphere of expectation and denial.
- I am not at all frightened by your threats, and I shall know how to deal with you if you persist in interfering with me or persecuting Kilmeny. Kilmeny of the Orchard
- Picture phone users will be asked to hand in their mobiles at reception, and will even be asked to leave if they persist in using the handsets.
- It is time we do ask - for so long as we persist in seeing the problem as theirs alone, the solution will elude us.