Sentence examples for they have persisted from inspiring English sources

They have persisted during the years when they together modernized the party and took the reins of government.

But it is very hard for some individuals to take part at all or, if they have persisted for five months, to continue.

"Traditions" is a word with rather conservative connotations, often used to justify injustices on the grounds that they have persisted for centuries.

They have sometimes been shot at, and once his group was held hostage, but they have persisted and become witnesses to systematic crimes against humanity.

The fashion for hoary stage devices waxes and wanes, although they have persisted more steadily in European theater than in our own.

Though the protesters lack the huge numbers of past months — tens of thousands turned out in some towns this summer — they have persisted despite the violence.

(As it happened, each failed, but my guess is that if they had persisted they would eventually have struck lucky).

Remarkably, they've persisted as a durable act, adroitly integrating various electronic and global strains through a dub sensibility.

"They have been around since long before I made 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' in 1977, and they've persisted way after".

H. has not accepted that these sensations are here to stay — the prospect is too depressing — but they've persisted for eleven years now.

He concedes that Agassiz's worst ideas are hopelessly discredited, but perhaps the more interesting question is why they've persisted.