Sentence examples for which persisted in from inspiring English sources

The Sudanese were historically associated with the slave trade, which persisted in parts of Central Africa into the nineteen-thirties.

With them, they took Aramaic, Jesus' tongue and once the lingua franca of the Middle East, which persisted in Kurdistan even after Arabic conquered the region.

The Egyptian penchant for repeating lines of animals and figures, which persisted in reliefs for centuries,  is evident in a small ceramic box nearby that is painted with rows of flamingoes.

Traditional Japanese bedding, the use of which persisted in the late 20th century, consisted of quilted padding and coverlets called futons arranged directly on the floor, which was covered with tatami, or resilient mats of woven fibre.

By E. M. Woody and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, April 20 , 1935P. 12 A pretty important conference of the officers of a big trust company was interrupted by a pigeon which persisted in trying to carry off, for nesting material, the cord of a window shade in the conference room.

In his letter, recovered from the house in northern Pakistan where Bin Laden was staying when he was killed in 2011 by US Navy Seals, Gadahn also offered 20 pages of advice on a range of other topics, from media strategy and the agendas of various global TV networks, to how to rein in off-message local groups around the world which persisted in killing large numbers of fellow Muslims.

Nor do they affect its meaning, which persists in a manner that is independent of biology.

But there will be no such program without the consent of Congress, which persists in a policy of reckless inaction.

Although those involved in mass hysteria experience real symptoms, which persist in some, the individuals are usually not re-examined to determine the long-term effects.

Graffiti daubed on walls around this town call for independence and guerrilla war, which persists in large parts of the province.

But São Paulo's hilly geography and its patchwork of squatter settlements, which persist in areas close to the rivers, make this a forbidding task.