Sentence examples for could have persisted from inspiring English sources
This error is an incredibly dangerous one, and it could have persisted.
Nor have they explained how the attacks could have persisted without attracting scrutiny.
Scanlon estimates they could have persisted for hundreds or even a few thousand years.
This fact makes it seem unlikely that methane could have persisted long enough to have caused an equable climate.
"Ten or 20 years ago, it's hard to imagine the movement could have persisted in China after 18 months of a government campaign," he said.
He could have persisted with that strategy or recommended spinal fusion, a major operation in which the surgeon removes the parts of the disk that are torn or degenerated and fuses bone to stabilize the trouble spot.
Clearly, a lineage of naturally occurring influenza virus could not have persisted from 1933 to the 1990s, nor could an ancient putative recombinant lineage survive from 1933 to the 1990s.
But assuming all of this is true, how could it have persisted for so long, and without more people stepping forward and speaking out?
The scheme "could not have persisted for so long, or defrauded so many of so much, without a network of financial institutions, feeder funds and individuals who participated in his fraud or acquiesced in it — just like any large-scale financial fraud".
Without caliphal encouragement Averroës could hardly have persisted all his life in his fight for philosophy against the theologians, as reflected in his Commentary on Plato's Republic, in such works as the Faṣl al-Maḳāl and Tahāfut al-Tahāfut, and in original philosophical treatises (e.g., about the union of the active intellect with the human intellect).
