Sentence examples for what persist from inspiring English sources

What persist are ill-understood but unquestioned folk sayings.

But instead of humor, what persisted was the unfortunate image of Mr. Romney — who is worth an estimated $250 million — sitting next to unemployed workers and joking about being out of work himself.

Exactly what persisted in the state of nirvana has been the subject of considerable discussion over the history of the tradition, though it has been described as bliss unchanging, secure, and unconditioned.

For the passionate core of revolutionaries in both capitals, which includes Islamists, secular liberals, trade unionists and many in-between, what persists is a determination to ensure lasting change, amid worries over the lingering hold of the ancien régime.But many among the working poor and middle class are warier of economic pain than they are thirsty for political gain.

Scotus follows Aristotle in identifying matter as what persists through substantial change and substantial form as what makes a given parcel of matter the definite, unique, individual substance that it is.

At the risk of gross oversimplification of what is treated thoroughly elsewhere (see the entry on Aristotle's metaphysics, it can be said that early on he took the view that what persists over time and through change, the substrate, can be identified with matter, and that it is the form of matter which is acquired or lost (Physics I, 5 7).

What persists, more than anything, is the reality that we did.

What persists here is the dangerous notion that we don't have a problem with racism and it means that when prejudice is pointed out, white people aren't often ready to acknowledge the ways it hurts the rest of us.

Maybe not; what persists is the murky uncertainty.

What persists above all is the feeling of finally going to bed on a dark winter's night full of hope for what the morning will bring.

What persists is the one-state reality, the status quo, and, with it, the corrosive rhetoric and behavior that has turned Ruvi Rivlin into an unexpected prophet.