Persist in sentence

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So how did this defective gene persist at all?

So heterozygote advantage can help explain why problematic versions of genes persist at high frequencies in certain populations.

You've got to persist through failure.

You've got to persist through crap!

And to say that such changes can persist after death is itself a factual claim, which, of course, may or may not be true.

Not only are economic motivations and intrinsic motivations incompatible, that incompatibility can persist over long periods.

And yet, I persist in this quixotic endeavor.

This film suggests a satisfying compromise between Science and Religion though plenty of closed heads will persist on both sides.

The plot is conventional in general but told through the perspective of a single black woman on welfare who has 6 children and trying to deal with all the problems that persist.

Even when Ogilvy and Company get fried by the Martians' 'Heat Ray'(?), they flounce and mince in some weird kind of dance, even when they're theoretically DEAD and reduced to skeletons, which persist in unseemly dancing and writhing.

The devil worshippers are a joke compared to the satanic cults in other horror films (and, although they clearly outnumber the heroes, they persist in attacking them one by one), and I hope Patrick Bergin knows that, after a role like this, his career has little hope of reviving.

Those who persist in their viewing will eventually encounter a chilling repetitiveness in this film (the fires are still burning!)

If movie studios are going to get celebrities to be the voices of characters and are still willing to persist with silly songs - the least they could do is make the actual actors sing the songs - or alternatively let the singers SPEAK the parts.

Heroes and villains are splintered into categories of those who are punished for their crimes unto mortal eternity, and those who persist in petty, under-the-table wrongdoings within society's aegis.

They always persist in running off alone on pointless errands, instead of sticking together and overwhelming an often vulnerable looking killer (such as the "Redeemer" here) through the sheer force of a mass attack while they still have the advantage of superior numbers.

Many images from the film persist in my memory too.

Funny that these things persist in times of post-modernity, might be related to who's got the means to make movies?

Somehow people seem to persist in interpreting the story as a Second Coming narrative, whereas the character played by Anna Magnani only believes she is to bear a "special" child as a reward for her piety.

To the extent that German products compete on quality rather than price, the surplus might persist even if domestic prices in Germany rise.

That is why conflicts like that between Cuba and the United States persist for so long.

The Japanese work ethic would persist, the reasoning went, and Japan’s high savings rate and slow population growth would give it a substantial edge in capital intensity – and thus in labor productivity – on top of whatever economy-wide advantage it might develop in total factor productivity.

Will Greece, the twenty-first century’s “sick man of Europe,” persist in refusing to reform?

The shrine, which honors more than a thousand indicted war criminals who took part in Japan’s disastrous war in Asia, remains a place of fascination for Japanese rightists, who persist in claiming that Japan’s war in Asia was a war of liberation against Western imperialism.

History will tell whether a recessive strand of openness may persist.

Unfortunately, too many corporate leaders persist in viewing the world as “us" versus “them," rather than attempting to understand why, in the absence of vigorous action, no one trusts them.

The best chance truth has is if writers and authors persist in presenting readers with facts; every now and then, we are rewarded for these efforts.

The mere fact that they have emerged in no way suggests that China is headed for disaster; that would be the case only if these problems were allowed to persist.

The economic fundamentals of supply and demand remain the key factors in driving the direction of commodity prices and determining whether the commodity super-cycle will persist.

Of course, spin, propaganda, and censorship persist in journalism, but with one big difference: Almost anyone can now operate as a reporter.

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