Use "persist in" in a sentence

1. to the seeking heart, and you will find the truth as you persist in seeking Him

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2. Be warned! If you persist in the use of the Globe’s powers after you have completed your task, you may end up being consumed by it, for you will have no consequence to us and we will not be responsible

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3. When Elizabeth told him she did not want to discuss it further, Colling decided it was useless to persist in trying to convince her

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4. “My fear,” he continued, “is that if we persist in what we do now, many of us will not return, and another kind of victory will be theirs

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5. Colling debated whether he should persist in the masquerade

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6. You persist in the hearts of men

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7. persist in getting to Circular Quay, get on one of the numerous excursion ferries that frequently sail to navigate its inlets

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8. He feared that, in her expressed desire to have twelve children, she might now persist in achieving that goal

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9. tions of atoms would persist in arrangement

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10. So many so-called scholars persist in being blind and ignorant

11. And if indeed they themselves only aid such things it would be [the more] tolerable; but now they persist in imbuing innocent souls with their pernicious doctrines not knowing that they shall receive a double condemnation both they and those that hear them

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12. I will continue to represent you, but as usual, you persist in alienating and slandering the people who try hardest to assist you

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13. stupidity if we choose to persist in that stupidity long enough

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14. regard to the evolution of those special persons who persist in struggling

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15. received and heard if we are praying as God wants us, if we persist in our prayers, if we see what is profitable to our souls and the souls of others, if our motives are pure, and if we avoid focusing exclusively on material things

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16. And should not mankind, as the centuries pass, come the better to understand the true nature and loving character of the Father in heaven? What profit have you from successive generations of spiritual illumination if you persist in viewing God as Moses and the prophets saw him? I say to you, Jacob, under the bright light of this hour you should see the Father as none of those who have gone before ever beheld him

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17. ' These stories I tell you to encourage you to persist in praying and not to intimate that your petitions will change the just and righteous Father above

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18. While your Master and his companions, your brethren, ascended yonder mountain yesterday to seek for a larger knowledge of the Father's will and to ask for a richer endowment of wisdom effectively to do that divine will, you who remained on watch here with instructions to strive to acquire the mind of spiritual insight and to pray with us for a fuller revelation of the Father's will, failed to exercise the faith at your command but, instead, yielded to the temptation and fell into your old evil tendencies to seek for yourselves preferred places in the kingdom of heaven -- the material and temporal kingdom which you persist in contemplating

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19. 3 "No sooner does your faith grasp the identity of the Son of Man than your selfish desire for worldly preferment creeps back upon you, and you fall to discussing among yourselves as to who should be greatest in the kingdom of heaven, a kingdom which, as you persist in conceiving it, does not exist, nor ever shall

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20. You insist on clinging to the belief that I am the Messiah, and you will not abandon the idea that the Messiah must sit upon a throne in Jerusalem; wherefore do I persist in telling you that the Son of Man must presently go to Jerusalem, suffer many things, be rejected by the scribes, the elders, and the chief priests, and after all this be killed and raised from the dead

21. I must warn you that if you persist in these efforts I will be forced to

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22. His brown skin reminded her of the ignorant rural peasants that were still allowed to persist in parts of China, and the contrast with his pink palms seemed unnatural

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23. And, if anyone is familiar with loan sharks, if you persist in not paying them, you may sustain some physical injuries, or even death

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24. However, sometimes they will persist in trying to goad

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25. Toby stared at the floor helplessly, wondering what kind of god could make such a world and let it persist in such misery

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26. Why do you persist in asking questions about her?”

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27. The mishandling and violence continued, and Jereriah, still standing in the corner that he was forced to stand in, watched; and at times, as one would get tired from his protest, another would step up to persist in the rhetoric of their misguided ways

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28. ‘’If you persist in trying to defeat militarily the Vietminh, then you could well end up having to capitulate to them once your forces become overwhelmed in a few years, Admiral

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29. In time, society at large rose above animal sacrifices, but there are still a few that persist in the ways of evil ignorance

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30. "Sir, we hear you very plainly, and we understand the seriousness of the situation, and in spite of that, we have orders that if you persist in talking to us, we are to bind and gag you

31. Every decade has its characteristic folly, but the basic cause is the same: people persist in believing that what has happened in the recent past will go on happening into the indefinite future, even while the ground is shifting under their feet

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32. The healing gift manifested, so instead of thinking of it cut and dry, yes it happened or not, learn to just persist in prayer, and sow in prayer, and believe in prayer

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33. Young men, have you really made up your minds to this? Have you fairly looked into the gulf which is before you, if you persist in despising religion? Call to mind the words of David: "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God" (Ps

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34. Will they not all rise in judgment and condemn you, if you persist in saying it cannot be done?

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35. But we yet persist in asserting that all the worldly business in which men are engaged is action

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36. “Prostrate yourself”: that is, persist in approaching towards your Provider’s by your communication with Him and seek His Favor and the bestowal of His Grace upon you

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37. That is he wants his spirit to persist in the same state it lives

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38. That is, “as long as you persist in your current state – whereby you have a lack of gratitude for God’s Graces, a lack of thankfulness for His Favour, and distance from Him in spiritual terms – you will never follow my way; nor will your spirits be satisfied with doing good actions

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39. To the case of such man the Noble Verse refers, God says: {And though We had mercy on them and removed the distress which is on them, still they would obstinately persist in their transgression, wandering blindly

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40. ((Prostrate yourself)): that is, ((persist in approaching your Provider through your communication with Him, and seek His Favor and the bestowal of His Grace upon you

41. Anyone who does not stop false word, persist in telling lies, and commit sins and wrong will never benefit from his fasting and will never get the content of God the Al-Mighty

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42. If you do not seek radical equality now, but rather persist in competing against one another, insist on distinct classes of winners and losers, then you will forever have eternal wars in the quest to sequester immortality

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43. "Until We mowed them down and left them gone out": if man keeps being attached to the lowly life, he will not think of death, the matter which causes him to persist in denying the truth

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44. Emerson wrote, “That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the thing has changed but our ability to do has increased

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45. I feel a sort of shame when you make so much of me, when you persist in telling me that the outer conditions of my life are unworthy

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46. Well, I'm thoroughly ashamed, and that at least is a good thing; and now that you know how badly I too need lecturing and how I am torn by particularly ungenerous emotions perhaps you'll see what a worthless person I am and will take me down from the absurd high pinnacle on which you persist in keeping me and on which I have felt so desperately uncomfortable for months past

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47. He was having differences of a personal nature with the village schoolmaster, who refused with a steadiness that annoyed Herr Dremmel to recognise that he was a _Schafskopf_, while Herr Dremmel held, and patiently explained, that a person who is born a _Schafskopf_ should be simple and frank about it, and not persist in behaving as if he were not one; and as for a teacher in the house, that was altogether impossible, because there was no room

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48. It was all very well, it was charming to be like a boy for a little while, but to persist in it was tiresome

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49. If the marriages turned out happy, how absurd to persist in an antiquated disapproval; if they turned out wretched, then how urgent the special need for love

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50. Remember: that which you insistently resist, continues to persist in a greater degree

51. If you persist in regarding the desired thing as if it belonged to another, instead of to

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52. But this does not stop guilty people even after they are proven guilty, to persist in protesting their own innocence

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53. the willpower to persist in our endeavor

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54. Initiate in action, persist in trouble, wait in trust, sooner or later the day will come when you will be paid back with all interest and much more will come from the supreme Lord

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55. The definition of perseverance is to persist in anything

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56. continuum of inspirations, thoughts, deeds and results that cause things to exist and persist in this

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57. It represents those patterns and things that persist in the collective motivations,

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58. Illuminati that the Khiltoi persist in hiding in that accursed

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59. ‘It is to be hoped so but even then, enemies still persist in the

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60. You cannot come with ME if you persist in following the wide path of

61. waits patiently while you persist in handling the evil things of the

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62. At last, those who persist in the course of evil must answer to the demands of justice, and that penalty is death

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63. But if they persist in disobedience they bring it upon themselves contrary to his will, and he assures us the execution of the sentence will be absolute and without remedy

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64. His apostles persist in this classification

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65. But the wrongdoers persist in denying the truth

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66. Even if We had mercy on them, and relieved their problems, they would still blindly persist in their defiance

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67. We have circulated it among them, that they may reflect, but most people persist in thanklessness

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68. Or who is this that will provide for you, if He withholds His provision? Yet they persist in defiance and aversion

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69. ’ The idea is that headstrong sinners, both men and women, deeply committed to a life of vice and crime, will be sure to say, 'Oh, there is to be an end to hell-torments, is there? Very well, we are glad to hear it; and we will, therefore, persist in our enjoyments, and risk the consequences

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70. Paul, in the second letter to the Thessalonians, that the personal advent of Christ will occur for the purpose of destroying 'the Man of Sin’;—the doctrine of the prophet Daniel, that the 'Son of Man will come in the clouds of heaven’ for the destruction of the 'fourth kingdom,’ and of that 'horn that has eyes, and a mouth speaking marvelous things;’—the doctrine that Christ Himself will come to punish 'with flaming fire’ an antichristian clergy that has perverted Revelation until men can no longer believe in it, and to judge nations that persist in Idolatry after due summons to repentance;—this doctrine of Christ’s ever-impending Advent, under the influence of which the gospel was spread in the first century, is denied by the missionary societies and the generality of their agents

71. I am continually amazed that dermatologists persist in viewing the skin as merely a protective envelope for the body, ascribing its eruptions to 'viruses' and imprecise malfunctions and supporting the myth that 'diet has nothing to do with acne

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72. " Instead of improving the soil, they persist in keeping up the pasture lands, however depreciated they may be in value, and the lazy borough, growing away from the plain, has naturally spread riverwards

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73. "I am surprised that in our days, in this century of enlightenment, anyone should still persist in proscribing an intellectual relaxation that is inoffensive, moralising, and sometimes even hygienic; is it not, doctor?"

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74. How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and humanity! From pity and charity! He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares! Let us settle it at once: will you stay here, and am I to fight my way to Catherine over Linton and his footman? Or will you be my friend, as you have been hitherto, and do what I request? Decide! because there is no reason for my lingering another minute, if you persist in your stubborn ill-nature!"

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75. The events which have taken place in my house, though they now occupy the public mind, will be forgotten in time, or if, indeed, a few enemies should persist in remembering them, why then I will add them to my list of crimes

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76. To Pocock, this unflagging resilience—this readiness to bounce back, to keep coming, to persist in the face of resistance—was the magic in cedar, the unseen force that imparted life to the shell

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77. The Pasqualate might be—was—tragically wrong about the consequences of the false kindness that encouraged a heretic to persist in his heresy, but he was sincere

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78. "If you really persist in your generous view," said the Professor, "I should found a private museum, which has long been one of my dreams

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79. Why did these people persist in

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80. To persist in a project you know seems crazy: Did this mean you were crazy, or the opposite?

81. Farebrother's approach along the grass, and had just stooped down to lecture a small black-and-tan terrier, which would persist in walking on the sheet and smelling at the rose-leaves as Mary sprinkled them

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82. Perhaps if he had been strong enough to persist in his determination to be the more because she was less, that evening might have had a better issue

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83. I now refer to this as “tick syndrome” in traders when they persist in digging into a rock; essentially continuing with the same strategy or trade that the market continues to punish

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84. In this manner, “residual” bullish sentiment in a former leader will persist in bringing money into the stock and bouncing it back up within its pattern

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85. Brevet, take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on your soul and conscience, if you persist in recognizing this man as your former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?"

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86. All those places which you no longer behold, which you may never behold again, perchance, and whose memory you have cherished, take on a melancholy charm, recur to your mind with the melancholy of an apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, the very form of France, and you love them; and you call them up as they are, as they were, and you persist in this, and you will submit to no change: for you are attached to the figure of your fatherland as to the face of your mother

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87. The obstinacy of antiquated institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the spoiled fish which should persist in being eaten, the persecution of the child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness of corpses which should return to embrace the living

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88. Could these societies have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice which destroyed them? What is the amount of suicide in these terrible deaths of a nation and a race? Questions to which there exists no reply

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89. A positive trend, or momentum, does tend to persist in most asset classes, but the historical window matters

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90. The same is true for the open interest, which may be inflated by a few large trades that have been executed in the past and should not be expected to persist in the future

91. In this way she realized not only that her husband was in a state of mortal sin but that he had resolved to persist in it, since he did not go to his confessor for help

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92. On the other hand, it seemed strange to her that Florentino Ariza would persist in his mystic attire and his rare lotions, and that he would continue to be so enigmatic after making his way in life in so spectacular and honorable a manner

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93. The main reason why money is lost in stock speculations is not because Wall Street is dishonest, but because so many people persist in thinking that you can make money without working for it and that the stock exchange is the place were this miracle can be per- formed

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94. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true

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95. He will, for example, persist in declaring, ' I am a prince and descended from Pairik ; but there's no reason why I shouldn't be a shoemaker if I have to earn my living ; I am not fit for any other calling

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96. You do not even offer an apology, but persist in asserting that' you are ready to answer for it when and how he pleases

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97. You persist in thinking that it's the same as it was at Touchard's, and that I'm as stupid as at Touchard's

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98. Oh, these people did not persist in trying to make me understand them, they loved me without that, but I knew that they would never understand me, and so I hardly spoke to them about our earth

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99. “Though you assure him you are sorry to lose a friend in him, you persist in telling him to his face that it's fortunate he is going,” said Alyosha breathlessly

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100. And when I walked away from her, she at once put her handkerchief to her eyes again and wiped away rebellious tears, which would persist in rising again and again from her heart and dropping from her poor eyes