Parents from Shanghai, for example, seem to be the most insistent, as they persistently harp at their children.
Students give up easily and can't behold on consistently and persistently.
Now I know that I cannot pursue a worthy goal, steadily and persistently, with all the powers of my mind and yet fail.
One day, an owl flew persistently towards the east till it was completely exhausted, so it stopped in a forest to take a rest.
Believing that personal enmities must be forgotten at a time of national crisis, he gets rid of old grudges and joins the imperial army of Ming Dynasty resolutely and persistently.
The man searched her persistently without eating and resting.
"Strong action and political leadership is needed to ensure growth in the region does not settle on to a persistently weak path," said Joe Oliver, Canada's finance minister.
Follow your plan accurately and persistently.
We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
At first the old man declined, but was persuaded to enter the room, to sit down on the edge of the sofa nearest the door, and at last to draw closer and to seat himself by the beautiful Persian, who urged him so persistently to drink her health that at length he yielded, and took the cup she offered.
