Sentence examples for surprisingly enduring from inspiring English sources

These cultures are surprisingly enduring, Li notes, even with all the cross-pollination that goes on in the world today.

Reduced field Gender discrimination at the Olympics has been surprisingly enduring: as recently as 1992 some 35 countries entered only male athletes.

Family businesses were supposed to lose ground as public companies raised money from millions of small investors.This never happened partly because many advantages of kinship proved surprisingly enduring.

Those who take this view cite an equilibrium -- brittle, but surprisingly enduring through the past five years -- that has developed between the Kurdish territory and Mr. Hussein's Iraq.

Although they are composed of loose or only moderately consolidated cinder, many of them are surprisingly enduring features of the landscape because rain falling on them sinks into the highly permeable cinder instead of running off down their slopes to erode them.

Even if we remember that in the 1920s, when Woolf went for him, she was just an upstart Bloomsbury neophyte and Bennett had been in the bastion of British publishing for 20 years – she had a point to prove – and it's a verdict that's proved surprisingly enduring.

What you hear ultimately turns out to be moving and, more surprisingly, of enduring relevance on the subject of sex and the sexes.

After 10 years on air, the annual talent show has created surprisingly few enduring stars, of whom even fewer actually won the contest.

(Incidentally, "too Camden Market" was one of the ultimate disses at my school back in the 1990s and one I have found to be surprisingly useful and enduring).

Perhaps not surprisingly, Ford has been enduring a roasting in the local press.

He slept in caves and lean-tos, rarely spoke, accepted food and then moved on, but became a figure of mystery and some affection during his life and then, surprisingly, a source of enduring fascination long after his death on March 20 , 1889