While many in the Party leadership resisted our efforts to debate Middle East issues, I persisted, believing that the debate was needed.
As it became clear that the former Allies were no longer interested in pursuing the work of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, Wiesenthal persisted, believing the survivors were obligated to take on the task.
Nevertheless, Creme's followers detected ambiguity in his syntax, and persisted in believing that Patel was Maitreya.
But Gwen persisted in believing that the more fortunate of the world had to set an example.
But I persisted in believing that I might one day come upon some technique, some set of tricks, that would vault me irreversibly onto the professional plane.
In between is a more conventional chronological narrative, but with frequent engaging interventions (like those of a 19th-century novelist) in which Bulgakov discusses such issues as why "my hero" daftly persisted in believing he was equipped to write tragedies.
When Neville Chamberlain persisted in believing in Hitler's good intentions, MI5 told him – more than once – in 1938 that the German leader privately called him an "arsehole", says the book.
The American general in charge wasn't convinced and publicly squashed the idea of militias, while Washington's ambassador persisted in believing the "only good Taliban is a caged Taliban".
And even then, until very near the end, I persisted in believing that the narrator was somehow omniscient, speaking perhaps from beyond the grave, as in another of Roth's recent novels, "Indignation".
This sudden and violent divergence in their tastes was shocking to Keisha, and she persisted in believing that Leah's new tastes were an affectation, unrelated to anything essential in her being and largely taken up to annoy her oldest friend.
And now let us return at last to the Metropolitan Samuel, who bought the first lot of scrolls and persisted in believing in their antiquity, who allowed them to be photographed by the scholars of the American School in Jerusalem, and was encouraged by these Americans to come to the United States in January , 1949
