Sentence examples for persistent advances from inspiring English sources

Clare has a strange and not entirely explained yearning for closeness with Irene, but Irene's reflex is to reject what amount to persistent advances.

At other times, Liu's persistent advances and Wu's conscience- stricken refusals recall the buffoonery of Henry Fielding's "Joseph Andrews," in which the title character, a handsome, virtuous young footman, resists the indelicate overtures of his employer — that proto-cougar, Lady Booby.

"We were best friends for five years, and he always wanted to be more," says the natural-foods chef, who eventually accepted Peter's persistent advances.

A more subtle benefit might accrue to a young female if a relative's false oestrus served to deflect the persistent advances of young male elephants, which often appear stressful to young females.

Those who suffered ruin or heavy loss when the stock market collapsed were speculators who had been carried away by the long, persistent advance in security prices.

Magnuson alleged that after she rejected the Volkswagen manager's persistent sexual advances, he had her removed by Peak Technical.

The British forces slowly retreated, suffering significant casualties under the persistent American advance.

"If every woman who was the subject of a "gentle", "non-aggressive" although persistent sexual advance… could respond with brutal violence rising to an intention to kill or inflict grievous bodily harm on the male importuning her, and then claim provocation after a homicide, the law of provocation would be sorely tested and undesirably extended," Kirby wrote.

Persistent during these advances has been the desire to develop design strategies that address multiple simultaneous engineering goals, such as maximizing productivity, while minimizing raw material costs.

As the pathology in persistent HPV infection advances to precancer and cancer, the viral load per abnormal cell tends to decrease while the HPV-rich koilocytes are progressively replaced by dysplastic cells with a higher nuclear/cytoplasmic ratio in the epithelum [ 33– 33].

Add to this noise, the recent Mandiant report attributing advanced persistent threat to one country, the PRC (though we collectively know there are other countries which have advanced cyber capabilities) the 800-pound gorilla has never been more evident -- it is standing in front of us.