She persisted, and a contest of wills followed.
43. that persisted in the imagination of the Egyptians longer than. It is not improbable, therefore, that the fall in wholesale prices which, with temporary interruptions, persisted between 1870 and 1900, in general harmony with the other movement, may have conduced to reluctance on the part of those who have enlarged their notions of the standard of comfort to endanger their prospects of enjoying it by incurring the additional expenses of family life. Hitherto, in the case of those who were brought before him, he had asked them three distinct times whether they were Christians, and, if they persisted in the admission, had ordered them to be taken to execution.
He was warned that if he persisted in disobeying the law he would be liable to banishment, and that if he were found in England after a certain time his neck would be stretched. I could see puppies the same age as he was, still chubby, Ookii was lean and lanky, the diarrhea persisted.
the Roman Catholic Church," heresy was defined as "error which is voluntarily held in contradiction to a doctrine which has been clearly stated in the creed, and has become part of the defined faith of the church," and which is "persisted in by a member of the church.".
The opening of the congress was postponed, and Sweden and Portugal were added to the European committee, but the Four still persisted in the informal meetings which were to decide the important questions. Bob Geldof himself has so clearly persisted that any temporary entanglement with the Living Dead can ultimately only demean him. We arrived into Montreal during a heavy snowstorm which persisted for well over a day.
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to strongly maintain or carry on. When Dean persisted, he heard movement, followed by a cough. However, he persisted in his dream, driven by his desire to build a better life for his family through his writing. The housewife long persisted in deceiving herself by purchasing filled calicoes, and the movement in favour of purer goods owes a good deal, strangely enough, to the increase in the making-up trade and the consequent inconveniences to workers of sewing machines, whose needles were constantly broken by hard filled calicoes. The value of the residual induction which persisted when the bobbin was drawn out was added to that of the induction measured, and thus the total induction in the iron was determined. Experiments with annealed iron gave less satisfactory results, on account of the slowness with which the metal settled down into a new magnetic state, thus causing a " drift " of the magnetometer needle, which sometimes persisted for several seconds. Synonym Discussion of persist.
that persisted in the imagination of the Egyptians longer than. Many co-operative dairies have persisted since the early days of farmers' granges. Examples of Persist in a sentence. This Arian form of Christianity was imparted by Ulfilas and his disciples to most of the tribes of the Gothic stock, and persisted among them, in spite of persecution, for two centuries. 4.
At one moment he withdrew from it, because Lord John Russell persisted in presenting a project of reform which appeared to him entirely out of season; and he advocated, with reason, measures 1 David Pacifico (1784-1854) was a Portuguese Jew, born a British subject at Gibraltar. 3.
www.use-in-a-sentence.com English words and Examples of Usage Example Sentences for "persist" If your son's fever persists more than a day or two, you'd better take him to the doctor againThis guy at work persists in asking me out even though I have told him very clearly that I am not interested in dating him.
114. No doubt, too, the preponderance of rainfall in the west has persisted for an enormous period. Dichotomous variables persisted of adverse california health insurance rating selection retiree health benefits. 2. But, unlike the pope, he gave ear to the popular cry for redress of political grievances; and persisted in associating with the baronial opposition, even after he was ordered by Innocent to excommunicate them as disturbers of the peace.
Once the detectives decided to persist with their interrogation for ten hours, the suspect finally confessed to the crime.
Positive antibody titers persisted for at least 3 to 18 months after treatment. People, however, persisted in the belief that the queen had used the countess as an instrument to satisfy her hatred of the cardinal de Rohan.
It is all the more remarkable that the scorpion proves to be the oldest animal form of high elaboration which has persisted to the present day. In fact, compliance with the Christian practice of inhumation in the cemeteries sanctioned by the church, was only enforced in Europe by capitularies denouncing the punishment of death on those who persisted in burying their dead after the pagan fashion or in the pagan mounds.
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and ultimately assumed the various exaggerated forms now extant. Britain scuppers all attempts at an agreed solution Meanwhile, the Zimbabwean government persisted in its efforts to solve the land question amicably.
(who were really a very remarkable body of men) distrusted democratic government; that their Sedition Law was outrageous in itself, and (as well as the Alien Law) bad as a party measure; that in disputes with Great Britain they were true English Tories when contrasted with the friendly attitude toward America held by many English Liberals; and that they persisted in New England as a pro-British, aristocratic social-cult long after they lost effective political influence.
, Due to her mother’s death, the memory of her mother seemed to persist in her mind every hour throughout the days. However, Quiksilver persisted with its plan, and Roxy's swimsuits debuted that same year.
In the monastery, however, she was held in high honour by the archimandrite; the nuns persisted in regarding her as the lawful empress; and she was permitted an extraordinary degree of latitude, unknown to Peter, who dragged her from her enforced retreat in 1718 on a charge of adultery. But soon the thought struck him that, if he persisted in such wickedness, the steeple would fall on his head; and he fled in terror from the accursed place. Faithful to the ancient tradition of Contarini and Pole at Trent, these good men persisted in supposing that the Reformation was nothing more than a protest against practical abuses: remove the abuses, and the rest would follow of itself. In spite, therefore, of the encyclopaedic tradition which has persisted from Aristotle through the Arab and medieval schools down to Herbert Spencer, it is forced upon us in our own day that in a pursuit so manysided as medicine, whether in its scientific or in its practical aspect, we have to submit more and more to that division of labour which has been a condition of advance in all other walks of life.
It persisted, and she looked down, jumping to see one of several curious cats nudging her leg. But the bishop did not persist in his obstruction. Phillips had persisted in starting for Benin despite the repeated request of the king. Since Weird Al, comedic song parodies have persisted, but no single artist has achieved his level of success. Though we may recognize in this poetical imagery the survival of ancient and, if we please, mythical notions, we should err if we inferred that Yahweh was originally a departmental god, presiding specifically over meteorological phenomena, and that this conception of him persisted among the Israelites till very late times.