Sentence examples for powerful persistent from inspiring English sources

Still, the stele's journey out of Egypt illuminates the powerful, persistent tension between efforts to stanch the trade in loot and the raw instincts of the marketplace.

The best Dr Francis could offer was a theory as to why a warmer Arctic might be expected to lead to wilder weather in mid-latitudes, and some tentative but suggestive evidence that this is already happening.Her idea rests on the jet stream, a powerful, persistent, high-altitude "river of air" which flows around the world from west to east, affecting the weather as it goes.

However, it is possible that anger against the rich who benefited from those corrupt policies is a powerful, persistent force leading people to vote for interventionist policies that are designed to bring about "fairness" rather than maximize material income.

He cited conversations and memorandums suggesting that the firings had occurred because White House aides understood that that was the outcome desired by a powerful and persistent first lady.

To topple them, and prevent them from taking over again, you need a powerful and persistent threat, which nonhuman primates don't have.

The Russian state may never be able to regain parity with the West, but it can be a powerful and persistent nuisance.So which quadrant beckons?

That spurred the creation of America's Environmental Protection Agency.The idea that environmental concerns are mainly for the rich is still powerful and persistent.

His myth is linked to the most powerful and persistent myth in American history -- the disappearing frontier -- and he is closer to Kit Carson and other figures of that lore than to other actors.

Although this winter was not as bad as the last big El Niño, in 1982-83, the waves were powerful and persistent, pounding the coastline from December well into April.

Her research into bereavement after the loss of a twin, compared with the loss of other relatives, with the exception of children, indicated that identical twins felt a more powerful and persistent grief than fraternal twins, but that both kinds of twins felt that the loss of their sibling was more severe than any other loss.

Lise Lindstrom was Salome, secure and silvery of tone, never overwhelmingly powerful but persistent and intense; Kim Begley was the pliable Herod, Birgit Remmert the severe Herodias and James Rutherford the Jokanaan, wrapping his burnished tone around the prophet's phrases and communicating meaning in a way that mostly defeated other singers.