Persisted

Based on a NY Times article, Hurdles to Voting Persisted in 2008 excerpted below.

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Persisted into the first years of the Depression simply because people needed the money, which worked out to a little over a penny an hour.

Futures Imperfect Willis, Connie 1994

Behind the rope the crowd Persisted, open-eyed, chattering, pointing, coming to look and moving away to trail back over the fields.

Hot Money Francis, Dick 1987

Persisted to a point where any way of thought that conflicted with it must automatically seem wrong.

Way Station Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1963

Persisted in through years of married life, the ultimate result will be more and more closely approximated, while there will be less danger of diseases after childbirth and better and more vigorous children will be produced.

Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis

Persisted with long enough, enemas will clean the colon every bit as well as a colonic machine can.

How and When to Be Your Own Doctor Isabel Moser

Persisted in through years of married life, the ultimate result will be more and more closely approximated, while there will be less danger of diseases after childbirth and better and more vigorous children will be produced.

Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage B.G. Jefferis

And now, when she Persisted in repeating that it was time for him to marry, he felt so overwhelmed with shame, that he hardly knew which way to look.

Chapter XII 1917

Persisted in, the pupil acquires a permanent tendency to fumble, to gaze about aimlessly, to look for some clew of action beside that which the subject matter supplies.

democracy and Education : an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education 1916

Persisted in, the pupil acquires a permanent tendency to fumble, to gaze about aimlessly, to look for some clew of action beside that which the subject matter supplies.

Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education John Dewey 1905