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persist English

Meaning persist meaning

What does persist mean?
Definitions in simple English

persist Verb

— To persist is to continue to do something even if people want you to stop. — If something is said to persist, it continues to happen beyond expected.

persist

— verb (= die hard, endure) continue to exist These stories die hard The legend of Elvis endures — verb be persistent, refuse to stop he persisted to call me every night The child persisted and kept asking questions — verb (= remain, stay) stay behind The smell stayed in the room The hostility remained long after they made up

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persist English » English

persevere continue endure insist last hold out maintain keep stand keep on stubborn stay remain obstinate insist on go on abide wear urge sustain stand firm run resist put up with hold on weather unyielding stick to put up resistance proceed with prevail overwork linger hang on hang in firm die hard carry on be steadfast withstand try persistently try one’s best tolerate threap take survive support struggle stress straddle

Topics persist topics

What do people use persist to talk about?
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Determined
Social behavior Behavior Good, moral

Patient
Grammar General words Be

Exist

Conjugation persist conjugation

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persist · verb

Examples persist examples

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Simple sentences

Most aspects of climate change will persist for many centuries even if emissions are stopped.
The anthropologist says odd customs do persist in the region.
To err is human, but to persist in error is diabolical.
We intend to persist.

Movie subtitles

The key question is; how far down does the water persist beneath the surface and if you go far enough, is the pressure and temperature high enough that the water would be liquid, not in the form of ice?
Your health will be ruined if you persist in this madness.
Oh, why do you persist?
Do you still persist in your intentions?
Do you persist in it?
But to persist in obstinate condolement is a course of impious stubbornness.
If you persist in your attitude, if give way to that commandment.
So you persist in lying about that, too.
Why do you persist in embarrassing me?
They won't be able to go on if you persist in driving.
Must you persist in the face of everything?
If you persist in denying us our landings, then we must only accept that you do not want us on friendly terms.
If you persist in continuing, I cannot answer for the consequences.
And you persist in declaring your occupation as being a librarian.
But deep within me would still persist something, understand me, something like an aching consolation.
Or rather, if they had let him persist. my son would be today a great painter, or a great sculptor.
You persist in trying to provoke me.
If we persist and follow them, and wait for the opportunity their guard will be down some time during the long journey.
Then I am not joking when I tell you that if you persist in this ridiculous notion of joining our profession your wisest course is to register at once for unemployment pay.
Do not persist against who no longer exists.
And it is good you've inhaled a little of the spirit of the West, for it has become necessary that our aged Nippon can persist in the struggle for the space of the earth.
Cornusse and the Baron persist in their contradictory statements and the body remains unindentified.
If you persist, there's one thing I shall have to do.
If you persist in thinking I am, you're going to be terribly disappointed.
I assure you that it is absolutely useless for you to persist in this sentiment.
If you persist in denying us our landings,.then we must only accept that you do not want us on friendly terms.
Why do you persist, Muratova?
To the men on both sides, exhausted for want of food and rest, the doubt began to come whether they should still persist in slaughtering one another.
Captain, may I enquire if you intend to persist in your unusual course of action regarding the Halkans?
Yes, I persist.
Yet you persist?
The readings persist.
If they persist, they will be so charged and forever barred from Eden.

News and current affairs

Otherwise, speculation on member states' national debt will persist, keeping borrowing costs at levels that are inconsistent with the conditions required to sustain economic recovery.
Moreover, political gridlock over fiscal adjustment is likely to persist, regardless of whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney wins November's presidential election.
Yet without shareholder pressure, all the signs are that the problem will persist.
Instead of leaving the world's most vulnerable people without access to family planning, education, and basic health care, we need to end extreme poverty and reduce the soaring fertility rates that persist in the poorest parts of the world.
They also explained why shocks to the economy might be amplified, and their effects persist, well after the original disturbance disappeared.
The costs would also come much sooner than the benefits and persist much longer.
But, while this disconnect could continue for some time if no alternative program emerges, the huge gap between financial markets' performance and most people's well-being is unlikely to persist in the longer term.
But no progress is possible as long as the Bush administration and Ehud Olmert's Israeli government persist in refusing to recognize a unity government that includes Hamas.
The stakes for a peaceful regional order are too high for Israel and the United States to persist in refusing to put Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's current peace offensive to the test.
As a result, structural unemployment in France and Southern Europe would persist.
The status quo will also likely persist in Colombia.
Pockets of polio transmission also persist in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
Not only are key issues such as Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees insoluble without an all-Arab consensus, but any country that is left out of the peace process is bound to persist in its role as a revolutionary power bent on regional destabilization.
Surely, elements of corporatist thinking persist today.
Third, the corporate sector faces a glut of capacity, and a weak recovery of profitability is likely if growth is anemic and deflationary pressures still persist.
The conference ground rules exclude radical forces - Syria and Hamas - thus encouraging them to persist in their role as spoilers.
Nonetheless, the child-liberation movement that Satyarthi, Yousafzai, and others have helped to mobilize is growing by the day, and new, courageous voices are speaking out against injustices that cannot be allowed to persist for another generation.
To the extent that those fears persist, additional monetary easing can be expected.
The positive correlation between income and democracy that one sees across countries could be due to reverse causation: democracy is more likely to persist as a country grows richer.
If Fretilin persists in its decision to obstruct the government, instability will persist.
Even more important, inflation expectations have started to de-anchor: forecasters and investors expect the undershooting of the target to persist over the medium term.
But Europe should move more decisively in this direction. Otherwise, speculation on member states' national debt will persist, keeping borrowing costs at levels that are inconsistent with the conditions required to sustain economic recovery.
Such subsidies are a global scandal, yet large payments to largely wealthy American and Greek cotton growers seem likely to persist for many years.
As a result, America's cold war with Iran is likely to persist.
The Bush administration may be correct in arguing that the extremely high costs and risks of promoting democracy are less than the costs and risks of allowing the authoritarian status quo in the Middle east to persist indefinitely.
Anti-Americanism, they say, will persist because some people see America as a cultural threat.

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