Sentence examples for persisting not from inspiring English sources

Memories of the evening had remained fresh through the decades, persisting not over a complex philosophical theory or a clash of ideologies, but over a quip and the waving - or otherwise - of a short metal rod.

Memories of the evening had remained fresh through the decades, persisting not over a complex philosophical theory or a clash of ideologies, but over a quip and the waving -- or otherwise — of a short metal rod.

I realized I was obtuse in persisting, not grasping how Tom was patiently assembling a ­performance-art project in slow motion over nearly a quarter-century, that of an unreal friendship more real than many things.

Though free from some difficulties inherent in Lewis's theoretical machinery, modal dimensionalism has its own obstacles to overcome, not the least of which is to make substantive sense of the idea of an object's persisting not just in physical space and time but in modal space.

I always felt obliged to persist, not to simply chuck them out.

And it will persist, not least because the absolute numbers of minorities will increase too.

The question persists not merely because of the inanity or the collapse of his policies.

But passwords will persist, not least because we're hugely resistant to anything more complex.

Tattered agricultural shanties persist not far from grand new vinyl palaces with brick facades and brass doorknobs.

What if depression-like conditions are on track to persist, not for another year or two, but for decades?

The difference was these were models of status transmission from parents to children; they sought to explain why inequalities persist, not the exceptions when they do not.