Sentence examples for had persisted that from inspiring English sources

Amnesty's Northern Ireland director Patrick Corrigan said allegations had persisted that paedophilia at Kincora was linked to British intelligence services.

If that rate of increase has persisted, that salary today should be about $70,000.

Rumours have persisted that Anthopolous's differences with then-incoming Blue Jays President and CEO Mark Shapiro led to his departure.

For four hundred years, rumors have persisted that when all other options were exhausted, the settlers cannibalized the dead.

Newsweek, under the headline "History: Johnson Accused" reminded its readers that "suspicions have persisted that Lyndon Baines Johnson stole his way into the U.S. Senate".

He is in the second year of a four-year contract, yet the underground talk has persisted that he may be in trouble.

He has since become the Spanish club's all-time record goalscorer, but suggestions have persisted that he would be one day open to returning to United.

Although a forensic report named heart disease as Modotti's cause of death, suspicions have persisted that she was murdered by Vidali in the service of the communists.

Despite the horrifying evidence of the physical decomposition caused by death, the belief has persisted that something of the individual person survives the experience of dying.

For much of the past forty years, ever since it began to look as if Lee would not publish a second novel, a story has persisted that it was actually Capote who wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird".

Descendants of plantation owners may be dismayed to learn how many slaves lived at the properties; in some cases legends have persisted that the families only had loyal servants.