Sentence examples for the former persist from inspiring English sources

We looked back 12 months for diagnoses, but 3 months for medication dispensings because the former persist longer than the latter.

But the former persisted, maintaining 50 soldiers on the Isla Portillos [3], along the southern bank of the San Juan's main channel.

But as the months of winter went by and the former champion persisted in his determination, I began to remember how Patterson, badly beaten by a Swede named Ingemar Johansson in 1959, had beaten Johansson just as badly in 1960.

The old persists.

Rumours persist that the former Chelsea and Sheffield Wednesday player Dan Petrescu may be brought in to try to rescue a season rapidly heading south.

For example, large fans have built in the Ötz Valley and knickpoints persist at the former dam sites even though the Ötz River has eroded through the deposits during the past thousands of years; exact age-constraints of rockslide dam failure, however, are still scarce.

He would see what worked and what did not, abandoning the latter and persisting with the former until the crisis was overcome.

The former Speaker of the House persisted with his campaign despite the setback, and it seems the work is starting to pay off.

Importantly, colon cancer cells were far more susceptible than non-cancer cells to ITC-induced DNA damage, which persisted in the former case but was scarcely detectable in non-cancer colonic epithelial cells under the same conditions.

In answer to a question about whether Falluja was a decisive battle, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday on MSNBC's "Hardball," "Well, there's no question that, for success in Iraq, you can't have a city taken over by a bunch of terrorists and the former regime elements and have that persist over a sustained period of time".

John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, persisted with the argument for extraditing Megrahi to the US.