Sentence examples for small but enduring from inspiring English sources

One more strike from Rodriguez, and the Mets would have expunged several small but enduring annoyances regarding their inept road record.

Halley's conception of the subterranean realm spawned a recurring theme in science fiction (Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and L. Frank Baum all set novels inside the earth), as well as a small but enduring strain of true believers.

"Not infrequently, I'd pick up the phone," he told me, "and someone would say, 'I'd like to tell the Speaker to go straight to hell.' And I'd say, 'Well, I'll be sure to get him the message.' ") Regardless of how they choose to do so, most people who contact Congress have legitimate concerns — but, as any staffer can tell you, there is a small but enduring subgroup of wiseacres and crackpots.

There was however a small but enduring effect on school achievement.

The Andalusian, a high-stepping spirited horse, and the small but enduring Barb produced the Lipizzaner, which was named after the stud farm founded near Trieste, Italy, in 1580.

By the simple expedient of only emerging in public once a decade, Mike Scott has managed to chisel himself a small but enduring niche in the cobwebby vault of the rock biz.

The outcome of the fighting in Mali carries major implications not only for France, but also for the Obama administration, which is worried that Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and other militant groups could retain a smaller but enduring haven in remote mountain redoubts in the Malian desert.

In the much smaller classes, modest but enduring gains were observed among poor African-American kindergarteners and first-graders.

But enduring political differences intruded.

They married and had a stormy but enduring relationship.

At 37 °C, GABA production of BL21 DE3)/pET20b-torA-gadB was slower but enduring.