Sentence examples for in his persistence from inspiring English sources

There was something valiant and futile in his persistence.

Competition with his arch-rival John Varley, who runs Barclays, could have been a factor in his persistence.

As the critic William Feaver wrote of him: There is no need to label Atkins 'heroic' in his persistence.

By a brilliant combination of basic and applied medical research, Edwards overcame one technical hurdle after another in his persistence to discover a method that would help to alleviate infertility.

In this letter to Adelaide Sam Mase, the sister-in-law of his first wife, Evelyn Mandela, he reflects on the loss of his son, and on his reading of Christian scriptures, during which he refers to St. Paul as a "perfect pest" who would not quit in his persistence and mission.

Professor Richard Wakeford, of the University of Manchester, said the engineers building the plant would have seen Sir John as "sticking his nose in" but he was vindicated in his persistence.

Among these films, you tell your non-Daily-Telegraph-reading friends, were Hell's Angels (1930), Scarface (1932), and The Outlaw (1943), in which "his persistence with the Russell decolletage did for cleavage what Scarface had done for the machine-gun".

But six months later, in June 1986, it finally gave in to his persistence.

Having been promoted to captain, Wrigley was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his "exceptional devotion to duty", in particular his persistence in pressing home an attack against enemy infantry on 29 October 1918 in the face of "intense machine gun and rifle fire"; the honour was promulgated in the London Gazette on 3 June 1919.

In time his persistence paid off.

In 1967, his persistence led to the company's discovery of the largest pool of usable crude oil in North America at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope.