Sentence examples for a persistent habit from inspiring English sources

Still, the first-team defense could not shed a persistent habit — an inability to get off the field.

A persistent habit of self-pollination apparently has been adopted successfully by some plant species whose natural pollinators have died out.

But in the dwindling months of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's tenure, his administration has been charged with a final, 11th-hour transportation heave: ensuring that its fleetwide Taxi of Tomorrow — with a spacious back seat, "low-annoyance" horn and a persistent habit of attracting lawsuits and political opposition — reaches the road.

History has a persistent habit of making scientists look like fools – so while they now fire atoms at each other at high speed in tunnels under the Swiss Alps, how can they criticise religion when their own beliefs sometimes turn out to be wrong?

It is about recognition that over-speculation is a persistent habit of markets and should be restrained but with ample room for market price setting.

The weapons and salaries provided and troops trained by the United States and European Union have a persistent habit of slipping out of control.

Having this experience of other people (or of fictional simulacra of people) is an annoyingly persistent habit of actual humans, no matter how many convincing theoretical arguments attempt to bracket and contain the impulse, to carefully unhook it from transcendental ideas, or simply to curse it by one of its many names: realism, humanism, naturalism, figuration.

It's quite distracting when somebody has a nervous or persistent habit that involves chewing, touching or pulling of the body and hair.

If your picking habit is actually a persistent bad habit or nervous tic, it'll take more than conditioning your lips to fix the problem.

While some commentators have rejoiced in his persistent habit of "getting into a problem" only to sculpt his way out, others have been left cold.

We imagined he might be tall, or at least not small, and that, though physically robust, he might have looked crumpled owing to decades of ordering whiskies and half pints at the Oxford and a persistent nicotine habit.