There's the uncertain smile and vacant gaze of someone who doesn't quite know how he found himself here, but suspects that they must, nonetheless, persist in attempts at ingratiation.
The board of the clean energy finance corporation is legally obliged to ignore a directive from the new treasurer, Joe Hockey, to cease its operation and could take the Coalition government to court if it persisted in attempts to shut the CEFC down before the parliament voted to abolish it, according to advice from a leading barrister.
In the First World War, the French, British, and German troops persisted in attempting to storm trenches before recognizing the defensive supremacy of the machine gun.
I just saw a fantastic footballer and luckily they listened to my opinion......".. Yet we in England still persist in attempting to produce players with an emphasis on physical ability rather than football/skills ability.
Despite her downfall, Houston persisted in attempting a comeback.
He persists in attempting to convince you of his viewpoint.
If it persists in attempting to pacify Afghanistan (vainly trying to prod the Germans and other reluctant allies into deploying more troops with fewer strings attached), it will only further expose its internal weakness.
In March 1936, he wrote to advertising mogul Albert Lasker, a Jew, complaining that "a large number of misguided Jews still persist in attempting to hamper the activities of the American Olympic Committee.
Moreover, it indicates the development of cognitive processing that allows subjects to have a definite goal, to persist in attempting to achieve it, and to produce a goal-directed behavior.
Despite being rebuffed repeatedly by the British advertising firm Aegis, he is persisting in his attempts to gain a place on the company's board.
Throughout the flogging the Caliph persisted in his attempts to obtain a recantation, but to no avail.
