Sentence examples for persisted in seeking from inspiring English sources

When his aides fought over diametrically opposite policies, he persisted in seeking consensus.

Her parents persisted in seeking evaluation and diagnosis, which can be, for Ehlers-Danlos patients, a long and difficult journey.

Philip persisted in seeking such reforms, which strengthened the monarchy's position but angered the nobles, townsmen, and ecclesiastics who had profited from the laxer policies of earlier kings.

But there was even then a little band of brothers, hardly larger in number than the original pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, that persisted in seeking that these artists were true poets, mostly underrated and destined for resuscitation when good sense prevailed again.

"How do you try not to be insensitive while still getting what you want?" ArvinMeritor's chairman, Larry Yost, has persisted in seeking a combination of his company, with $6.9 billion in 2002 revenue, and the larger Dana, with $9.5 billion, despite being rebuffed several times by Dana and Mr. Magliochetti.

The Web site of the trade publication Broadcasting & Cable reported on Wednesday that Fox told General Motors and Carat that if they persisted in seeking such large rate cuts Fox would not sell G.M. any commercial time in National Football League games and would not make deals with other Carat clients.

We may be confident that the litigants will persist in seeking some eventual resolution to the court case.

The police fail to take preventive action or respond adequately to reports of attacks, have discouraged victims from filing official complaints and threatened undocumented migrants with detention if they persist in seeking justice.

It was, their statement added, intended "to take the life of the journalist" and "create a climate of terrorism for all those journalists who persist in seeking the truth".

I have a strong belief that Soviet self-interest will be their guide". Still, given Eisenhower's opposition, Churchill did not persist in seeking a meeting with the Russians for the time being.

The official line on the Modernising Medical Careers (www.mmc.nhs.uk) is that no one should be left in a dead-end situation but it does warn that "junior doctors who persist in seeking a career in a highly competitive speciality, where they are not the most competitive candidate, will have to rethink their career aspirations".