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How to use the word persisting in a Sentence?

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You are doing an excellent thing, one which will be wholesome for you, if, as you write me, you are persisting in your effort to attain sound understanding; it is foolish to pray for this when you can acquire it from yourself. We do not need to uplift our hands towards heaven, or to beg the keeper of a temple to let us approach his idol's ear, as if in this way our prayers were more likely to be heard. A god is near you, with you, and in you. This is what I mean, Lucilius: there sits a holy spirit within us, one who marks our good and bad deeds, and is our a guardian.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

added by Normando
3 months ago

Patients with mild Covid-19 had an increased risk for a small number of health outcomes, with only a few symptoms persisting a year from SARS-CoV-2 infection and their risk decreased with time from infection.

Barak Mizrahi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is very unusual very unusual that this is persisting over several months, and it may be for the remainder of the year.

Lawrence Yun

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We continued to see the Chinese Mainland drive our overall sales growth with a strong double-digit increase, offset by the persisting declines in the Hong Kong market and, to a lesser degree, Japan, we are happy to see sales growth in the Americas, a momentum shift in the region.

Chief Executive Officer Alessandro Bogliolo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The market environment remains challenging, cyclical pressures are persisting, and we continue to steer our course through what feels like the bottom of an ordinary semi downcycle.

Chief Executive Reinhard Ploss

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The legislative and administrative measures taken so far to limit this persisting non-compliance have been deemed insufficient by the Commission.

The European Commission

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's again worse than what most people had expected, especially on the investment side. All of this suggests that the downward pressures on growth in China are persisting, especially in the industrial part of the economy, this type of data will motivate policymakers to further ease on the monetary and fiscal sides.

Louis Kuijs

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We share Afghanistan's pain over persisting terrorism and extremist violence that destroy lives and derail progress.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Russia has engaged in a rather remarkable period of the most overt and extensive propaganda exercise that I've seen since the very height of cold war, and they have been persisting in their misrepresentations, lies -- whatever you want to call them -- about their activities there to my face, to the face of others, on many different occasions.

State John Kerry

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Santos' government has a dilemma of persisting with the policy of war and pacification or dare to take a true path to peace.

The ELN

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.

Spanish Proverb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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