Sentence examples for to persist about from inspiring English sources

Despite the fact that several letters on the subject of Gore Vidal and his biographer, Fred Kaplan, have appeared in your letters column, some confusion still seems to persist about how Kaplan became Vidal's biographer.

"I believe there is a basic misunderstanding which has existed for hundreds of years and will continue to persist about the 'creationist problem,' " he said in an interview with The New York Times after receiving the prize, "because in intellectual life we do not solve such dilemmas to the satisfaction of everybody".

Age-old debates continue to persist about the legitimacy of hip-hop in the classroom.

Improvement of swallowing occurs in 90 95% of patients, and tends to persist in about 75% of patients 10 years after the procedure.

While the president paid tribute to Owens, questions persist about the fateful mission in which the serviceman lost his life.

Despite the sharpened appetite for all things pertaining to Hollywood, questions persist about the broad, popular appeal of series set in the entertainment industry.

In recommending absolute mental resistance to the enemy, the book is honest about the strength of will necessary to persist in it and about the human cost it can exact.

It appears to persist into adulthood in about two thirds of individuals, either as the full diagnosis (15%) or in partial remission (50%) [ 3].

And not only wrong but dangerous, in that it allowed Britain's supermarkets, their executives and their shareholders, to persist in their inflated illusions about themselves.

It is critical to begin prevention during childhood as childhood obesity tends to persist into adulthood [ 7]; about 70% of obese children continue to be obese into their adulthood [ 8].

Waldheim's offence was to lie, and when exposed for lying, to persist - even as the truth about his war service emerged piecemeal.