Sentence examples for persisted largely from inspiring English sources

The hukou system has persisted largely because officials fear that major relaxation would result in a flood of poor farmers to cities, straining resources and producing crime.

That can't last forever, but ultralow yields and remarkably rich prices have persisted largely because of the Fed's daring experiments and interventions.

The club persisted, largely as a social club, until 1765 and in 1828 became, after merging with other groups, the Cork Yacht Club (later the Royal Cork Yacht Club).

In contrast, this paper looks beyond the "grammatocentric", and analyzes a practice of oral accounting – the Account of Conscience – that began in the Society of Jesus in the sixteenth century, and has persisted largely unchanged to the present day.

And, for a while, Ben Carson had momentum but did nothing with it; he showed no growth as a candidate and has persisted largely on account of a valued but depreciating direct mail donor base.

These symptoms had persisted largely unchanged despite in-patient management and compliance with antipsychotic and mood stabilising medications for the previous 6 months.

It persists largely because of a persistent rumor that the vaccine is a Western plot to sterilize Muslim girls.

Yet, they persist largely uninhibited.

He finds parents who persist largely in the spirit of an arduous hike: by the time they feel ragged, they've gone too far to turn around.

Instead, the worries persist largely because of anecdotal reports of cases like Ms. Dunbrook's, and the fact that uterine cancer is the most commonly diagnosed gynecologic cancer.

Some experts said the failures were persisting largely because the E.P.A.'s Office of Air and Radiation, which is responsible for regulating air pollutants, lacked the money needed to meet its deadlines.