Sentence examples for he has persisted from inspiring English sources

The Mayor's aides insist that he has persisted in the low-key style he has always favored.

He has persisted in arguing for tax cuts long after many Republicans, especially the cautionary voices of big business, have started worrying more about the deficit.

He has persisted so long, as both icon and mystery, that this year, in honor of his sixty-eighth birthday, it seemed time to treat the old guy to a face-lift.

Through all the decades since Chaplin's arrival in Hollywood in the early years of motion pictures, he has persisted as a gigantic, incomparable figure.At the age of 54 he married Oona O'Neill, the daughter of Eugene O'Neill, and with her settled down into a period of serenity, which lasted until his death on Christmas Day 1977 at age 88.

He has yearned to raise Japan's standing in the world; yet he has persisted in making annual visits to the Yasukuni shrine where the souls of Japan's war dead are venerated, and that has destroyed much of Japan's standing with its neighbours.When Mr Koizumi won the party presidency, and thus the prime ministership, in April 2001, the LDP had ruled for all but 11 months of the previous 46 years.

It is that he has persisted in taking measures that are patently counterproductive.

The Ministry of Culture had pressed Álvarez to stop meeting the Mashco, but he had persisted, bringing them bananas.

The engineer, Allan J. McDonald, director of the company's solid-fuel rocket motor program, said he had persisted in his "somewhat heated" arguments even after his superior, Joseph Kilminster, gave NASA officials written approval to proceed with the launching.

It was admitted that plaintiff was of good moral character; that he had a diploma from a reputable dental college; that he had submitted himself to the dental board for examination; that he had been examined, but had not passed the examination; and that, although refused a license, he had persisted in practicing dentistry.

He had persisted with his strategy of standing his ground attacking the Bodyline bowling, but was unsuccessful.

Lody told the tribunal that he was not pressured but that "I have never been a coward in my life and I certainly would not be a shirker", and that he had persisted with his mission because "once a man has promised to do a thing he does it, that is the understanding".