Sentence examples for I persisted for from inspiring English sources

He was the first person to see something in me--something I didn't trust myself to see--and I persisted for years on the strength of that recognition.

Since you've had the clinic, have you gained any insight on a question you asked as a young woman: why does female circumcision persist? A. I think it persists for complex reasons.

In fact, the sense of "I" persists even after liberation, for the self is truly the object of the notion of "I".

When I persisted in asking for the Hungarian socialist magazine, two older female librarians discreetly supplied it.

I persisted in my search for a definitive diagnosis for my symptoms.

I persisted, asking him not for an official projection, just for his best personal guess, a single number.

"I'm not sure," he replied, "I'm not an expert on the policy side". I persisted, asking him not for an official projection, just for his best personal guess, a single number.

I persisted with the wig for a few more days, but summer was approaching and it was just too hot and uncomfortable.

"I persisted," she later wrote, "for I saw clearly that the power to make the laws was the right through which all other rights could be secured".

Despite all the evidence and my own inner voice telling me what I knew to be true, I persisted with the diet for another few months, before suffering a spectacular Oreo-based relapse.

In accordance with our imaging results, the strong expression pattern for ICAM-I persisted also in the stages of early clinical remission (120 h).