Sentence examples similar to the activist persisted from inspiring English sources

That, or more conventional tortures, usually elicited temporary confessions, yet for years or decades those activists persisted in struggling for democracy.

Charb wonders why activists persist in using the word Islamophobia — which means "fear of Islam" — to denounce anti-Muslim hatred, rather than Muslimophobia, and challenges the concept of defending a religion over people.

Political reforms are slow in the communist system, where detention and harassment of activists persist amid U.S. pressure for greater freedom.

KHMELNYTSKY, Ukraine — Back in her hometown, Alexandra Shevchenko stood by, uncharacteristically calm, as her mother, Lyudmila, laid out her near-total opposition to her daughter's life choices, bewilderment over why she is still single at age 25, and especially why she persists with Femen, the activist women's group famous for guerrilla-style, bare-breasted political protests.

But a small movement of activists persists in the belief that vaccinations might somehow harm children.

Although Caldicott and others may have brought many to the movement by taking them into the eye of the nuclear hurricane, grassroots activists say they persisted because of their sense that they are responsible for something larger than themselves.

The problem persisted.

But the problems persisted.

The caller persisted.

But the group persisted.

The mother persisted.