Sentence examples for a way of persisting from inspiring English sources
(Burke) ★ Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People (Friday and Saturday) Mr. Gutierrez's work tends to unfold with bracing, almost destabilizing momentum, but even after that subsides, his potent images have a way of persisting in the mind.
Unlike portfolio performance, where Lady Luck plays a large role, a fund's expense burden has a way of persisting from year to year.
And even though all this false (and some true) information is being scrubbed away, rumors have a way of persisting on the social network even after individual Facebook reshares are discovered to be old or wrong.
The bill by Assemblywoman Catharine Baker (R-San Ramon) died in the Assembly Education Committee faster than you can say "opposed by the California Teachers Assn". But good ideas with broad support have a way of persisting, even in the toxic environment of partisan politics.
Cigarettes The tax on tobacco is seen as both a useful earner for the Treasury and a way of deterring people from persisting with a harmful habit, so another 17p of duty on a packet of cigarettes is to be expected.
All of Northup's friends, family, decent clothes and music have been stripped away, and he is left only with this, a way of life and an economic model which persisted until well into the 20th century.
In practice the nature-nurture model persists as a way of framing discussion on the causes of behaviour in genetic research papers, as well as in the media and lay debate.
Some think that music began as a way of fostering social cohesion, a 'tribal' role that still persists today.
Actually, I suspect this service persists mostly as a way of organizing you before you tumble out into the Yard.
