Sentence examples for mere persistence from inspiring English sources
Mere persistence is not, in itself, that great a feat.
So he became a character actor, granted that any actor pledged to mere persistence may run short on character.
[A] homicide conceived in passion constitutes murder in the first degree only if the jury is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that there was an appreciable time after the design was conceived and that in this interval there was a further thought, and a turning over in the mindand not a mere persistence of the initial impulse of passion.
But because nature's contrivances are imperfect, because omnipotence could altogether dispense with contrivances, and because organisms are principally contrived for the mere persistence of the individual or species and not for pleasure or happiness, the evidence not only fails to point to a being of unlimited power, intelligence, and benevolence, it is actually incompatible with it.
In interviews with Al-Akhbar, ISIS sources "speak of a strategy of resistance that the Crusaders have no capacity for, [and say that] the mere persistence of IS, and its survival after the [air]strike, definitely means its victory".
The syfB and syfH genes are the last remaining tRNA synthetase genes in primary (B and H) and secondary (B only) red plastids, so their mere persistence in diatom plastid genomes is probably more noteworthy than the seemingly inevitable losses recorded here.
Understanding the nature of nontreponemal antibodies in syphilis patients who do not have an appropriate serological response could shed light on their origins, and allow differentiation between antibodies indicative of persistent infection or mere antibody persistence in the absence of infection.
Many consider the new gay visibility a sign of social acceptance, while others charge that it is mere window dressing, obscuring the dogged persistence of discrimination.
But for all the advances made under Crowe's stewardship, Sunday, above all, is a tribute to the mere act of survival, a celebration of the persistence of one club in the face of mortal danger.
In Experiment 3, mere contact with beneficiaries and task significance interacted to increase persistence, mediated by affective commitment to beneficiaries.
Persistence is not characterised consistently in the different frameworks, but, as suggested by Boethling et al. [15] and in [9], it is the degradation half-life (DegT50) which should be compared to the trigger values in the various compartments, as a mere transfer (dissipation) from one compartment to the other does not affect the persistence of a substance.
