The act of persevering

Usage examples of persistence.

His energy pumps the blood round the brewery, and it is his persistence that makes sure that everything that ought to be done, is done.

In all the administration has been bad, the law and its officers have been regarded as dangers, if not as deliberate enemies, so that they have found little native help, and, what is not the least important cause of the persistence of brigandage, there have generally been local potentates who found it to their interest to protect the brigand.

He displayed a continuing erection which George estimated must exceed a foot in length, thus explaining his ability to exhibit such persistence.

Dekkeret himself had only the most casual interest in the persistence of the mantic arts as a phenomenon of modern culture, and no belief whatever in their predictive value.

Schacter catalogs them as transience, persistence, absentmindedness, blocking, bias, misattribution, and suggestibility.

Although their slow stagger was obviously no match for that of the van, the relentlessness and pointless persistence of the rotting gathering caused an icy chill to run the entire length of his spine.

Just as the master Arab calligraphers, commited to the notion of the endless persistence of tradition and books, had for five centuries been in the habit of resting their eyes as a precaution against blindness by turning their backs to the rising sun and looking toward the western horizon, Ibn Shakir ascended the minaret of the Caliphet Mosque in the coolness of morning, and from the balcony where the muezzin called the faithful to prayer, witnessed all that would end a five-centuries-long tradition of scribal art.

Without Sherk, Victory Smith was left with her own assets: courage, strength, persistence.

Freeman, realizing that there was certainly no chance for him of finishing his patients unless he gave way to her persistence, wrote a brief note certifying that in his opinion Mrs Dunwoody, who was suffering from mitral stenosis, would benefit from accommodation which did not involve the climbing of stairs.

He meant, of course, that he looked over his earlier works for roads unfollowed, trusting in the persistence of concerns and the renewal of old fascinations to stimulate some new ideas.

A second hypothesis might be that the unforeseen persistence of capitalism involves simply a continuation of the same processes of expansion and accumulation that we analyzed earlier, only that the complete depletion of the environment was not yet imminent, and that the moment of conf ronting limits and of ecological disaster is still to come.

The blacks had been torn from their land and culture, forced into a situation where the heritage of language, dress, custom, family relations, was bit by bit obliterated except for the remnants that blacks could hold on to by sheer, extraordinary persistence.

It was a true son of France who first had the persistence of courage and the endurance of imagination to enter the continent and see the gates close behind him--Jacques Cartier, a master pilot of St.

But that Endpoint spirit, that spirit of Hope and Persistence and all those other places where Endpointers have survived against all the odds, that spirit will see you through, help you survive.

The Sauropoda, on the other hand, constitute a dinosaur group which proved to be a great success not only due to their differentiation, but also due to their long persistence during Mesozoic time.