Sentence examples for were less persistent from inspiring English sources

According to the Fulani custom of sharo (test of young manhood), rival suitors underwent the ordeal of caning as a means of eliminating those who were less persistent.

The hearing was less a grilling and more a question-and-answer session, and the British lawmakers were less persistent than their American counterparts at a hearing in June.

When Di Xu, an economist at Columbia University's Teachers College, analyzed data from more than forty thousand students who had enrolled in online courses at thirty-four colleges throughout Washington state, she found that, relative to face-to-face courses, online students earned lower grades and were less persistent.

All R mutants were less persistent than the parental strains, with differences that allowed classifying them into four broad attenuation patterns (Figure 7A).

However, protrusions were less persistent in vitro without methylcellulose compared with in vivo, and speed of lamellipodial protrusion was increased (supplementary material Table S1).

HPVs 16, 33, 59, 66, 69, and 83 (HR) were the most persistent types whereas HPVs 31, 45, and 58 were less persistent.

The condition is less persistent than vestibular neuronitis, in which severe vertigo persists for days, probably as a result of viral infection of the inner ear or vestibular nerve.

It's just more acidic than the others, so it's less persistent.

He was less persistent with Ms. Deen, and instead of following up her assertion, wrapped up the interview.

He said it can't reason and hence can have any ideas, and though its memory is more reliable than the human memory, it is less persistent.

Psychologist Roy Baumeister and others have found that people who successfully accomplish one task requiring self-control are less persistent on a second, seemingly unrelated task.