Sentence examples for Persist from inspiring English sources

The Americans can't be bothered, and the Europeans persist in dishing up ludicrous amounts of black tea.

Why do such myths persist – and who is responsible?

But fears persist that the election, thought to be the most expensive in African history, will be polarising and that the losing side will not accept the outcome.

"The participation of instructors and specialists from third countries on Ukrainian territory, where the internal conflict remains unregulated, where problems with realising the points of the Minsk agreements persist, definitely doesn't help resolve the conflict," president Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists after the US paratroopers first arrived in Ukraine on Friday.

Despite intense publicity surrounding the event, doubts persist over whether it will be able to take place.

Weale and McCafferty remained concerned about the longer-term inflationary outlook, but, "noted the risk that low inflation might persist for longer than the temporary factors implied and concluded that this risk would be increased by an increase in Bank Rate at the current juncture".

Will it be in any mood to persist with the Tory contaminant and to court extinction?

If symptoms persist, you should take your child to the GP for advice – hay fever is not a trivial problem.

Despite all that, serious failings of care still persist in some places.

These facts, if they persist, would mean that the government will need to pay for training three or four potential GPs for every full-time-equivalent who will eventually practise.

Pockets of unemployment and petty crime, often drug related, persist.