Sentence examples for persist by from inspiring English sources

Cultures function and persist by consensus.

Tells how old state-run firms managed to persist by cooperating in sometime bizarre ways with each other.

Some plants with an odd number of chromosome sets persist by means of asexual reproduction, particularly through human cultivation; the triploid banana is one example.

A person must also persist by virtue of psychological continuity.

If this is what you are, then you persist by virtue of psychological continuity.

It's not clear how long the mountain lions can persist by themselves in the park.

But, devilishly, Wigg persisted by talking about missing models and whether Spain was the best place to find one.

"But you're enabling the criminal to achieve the object of his criminality," Justice Scalia persisted, by becoming the "essential instrument" in disseminating the information to others.

Neil persisted by suggesting the party would cut fuel duty, and Farage replied: "No, I'm not talking about any of those things.

Because the guerrilla attacks persisted, by the end of September Sherman seems to have given up the idea of converting Southerners outside Memphis to the Union cause.

An 18-year-old boy devises a new product that his elders initially dismiss; he persists by searching for venture capital; and then, battling litigation for patent infringement, he founds an industry that creates a new world scientific order.