Sentence examples for persevered for years from inspiring English sources

The auto industry has persevered for years despite being a favorite punching bag of both the right and the left.

It requires committed people, in touch with grassroots reality, to persevere for years on end.

Despite strong official opposition, Peter persevered for 38 years, baptizing an estimated 300,000 slaves.

In fact, it's astonishing that Morrisons persevered for six years with an obviously duff idea.

Despite this, she persevered for three years – a decision she now regrets.

Field persevered for 12 years and through four failed attempts to lay a working telegraph cable across the Atlantic before succeeding in 1866.

The film's heroes are Elizabeth Fink, the lawyer who persevered for 26 years to win, finally, that $12 million award for the Attica Brothers Defense Fund; and Frank Smith, an Attica inmate who was tortured after the uprising but who became a paralegal and Ms. Fink's assistant in the long, weary class-action suit against an unrepentant state.

Monica Roberts is doing a particularly good job on this issue, having persevered for many years to gain greater public exposure.

Women persevered for seventy-two years to obtain the right to vote in a country where all men were declared equal at its birth.

I explained to her that I had persevered for two years.

This paradigm has persevered for several years until experiments in the chemically mutated fibrosarcoma P2.1 cell line demonstrated that NF-κB was not required for dsRNA-induced IFN-β transcription (Peters et al, 2002).