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I hope some people will persist in the journey to unravelling this mystery.
Such ideas of shared ancestry with Americans, and especially Afro-Americans, persist to the present.
Whether you're experienced or inexperienced at prayer, just persist in doing it.
It's like a compelling bad dream whose inscrutable images persist in the traumatised moments after waking.
He retreated to the ground and did not continue to persist in creating hostile assaults.
It is striking how resiliently such ideas persist in the face of inconsistent evidence.
Local authorities have the power to evict people who persist in their life of crime and anti-social behaviour.
The European Council encouraged both countries to persist in their efforts.
Wild white clovers persist better under heavy, continuous grazing because they are prolific reseeders.
The higher you go, the colder it is, and the more likely that weak layers persist underneath a thickening slab of snow.
Why do they persist in risking their lives in cramped conditions aboard unseaworthy vessels?
Only an ever-dwindling, anti-social minority still persist in drinking and driving.
It says on the packet to consult your doctor if symptoms persist for more than seven days.
O'Connor said the symptoms usually persist for a few days and then ease up.
It is this alteration in the diffusivity of the mesopause region that allows structures in the electron density to persist at observable scales.
However, I would not have expected the symptoms to persist for over 12 months.
What allows this metastable state to persist is the existence of an energy barrier.
Since most pesticides are not biodegradable, once they enter the food chain they persist in plant or animal bodies.
Why does Dolan persist in five at the back when it clearly doesn't suit York's style of play?
Instead, we must persist in the quest for united action to counter both global warming and a weaponized world.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The most serious deficiencies will persist in the fields of residential housing, building materials, and consumers' durable goods.
They will persist in quoting Mill's farfetched eulogy, without referring to other passages in the essay On Liberty.
This may exist in the breeding season only, as in the fresh-water lampreys, or it may persist through life as in some gobies.
Whatever the cause, the result did not persist long as a guide to hand-tool design.
They do not long persist in the embryo, but disappear, and the area each one occupied becomes part of the sternite.
Nevertheless, traces of the notochord persist in the back-bone of these fishes.
Why do so many marriages persist when the love knot slips, and bandages fall away from the eyes?
Why should she persist in this eternal search for this impossible condition?
But what you do not know is that the type once established does not persist of its own accord.
A thing to be forgotten always is the off-color story with which some people persist in polluting the atmosphere.
This, the second or persecutory stage of delusional insanity, may persist through life.
You may persist, if you will, in attributing to me wrongs I never inflicted.
By the way, I was wrong in recommending you to persist in your averment that Protection is dead and coffined.
Blind pigs hardly exist, and bootleggers are rare birds who, if they persist in bootlegging, are rapidly converted into jailbirds.
No nation can long persist that does not have this kind of citizenry in the background.
The bulls, contrarily, persist in behaving as if they had inside information of a superior value.
The computer sends the pattern to the CRT only once, and the display can persist until erased.
With these there occur a few disputed leaves, which I must persist in regarding as dicotyledonous.
Then thou dost persist in thy refusal to confess thy guilt, and in that bold challenge which thou hast made?
Let us see then if you'll dare to persist in this nefarious scheme.
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