Sentence examples for were persisting from inspiring English sources
verb
To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
The rush of emotion in this expectation took her by surprise: most of her feelings, over these past months, had been muted, as if she were persisting through grim effort.
Some experts said the failures were persisting largely because the E.P.A.'s Office of Air and Radiation, which is responsible for regulating air pollutants, lacked the money needed to meet its deadlines.
He accused the mission of being the "headquarters of the counter-revolution," although he conceded, "the cockroaches are brave" because they were persisting with their "little sign".
These accumulated watershed conditions were present even though both water supply reservoirs were at capacity, indicating that stresses in the tributaries were persisting, with implications for fisheries and late summer flows, and local groundwater declines were likely.
Frustrated by this insulated language, I asked a superior why we were persisting with these obstructive qualifications.
However, kiore (Polynesian rats) had recently become established on several of the islands, and tuatara were persisting, but not breeding, on these islands.
Still, Ms. Konrad is persisting.
Droughts also are persisting or intensifying elsewhere in the west.
We were told we couldn't appeal, but we're persisting hopefully.
The photographer is persisting with a shot that's not working.
"We're persisting," said Pam Africa, who directs the Abu-Jamal website.
