Persisting

Once more / a limber sapling from the soil I tore; / once more, persisting, I resolved in mind / with inmost search the causes to explore / and probe the mystery that lurked behind; / dark drops of blood once more come trickling from the rind.

WHO’s director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, Kate O’Brien warns measles outbreaks are not just persisting, but are increasing.

The persisting stigma of leprosy often presents a barrier to otherwise highly effective medical treatment.

Gustavo kept persisting.

She's persisting with it.

If you try hard and manage to laugh, it's worth persisting a little because you might end up really enjoying yourself.

Still, in the very fullest blaze of gospel light, while we see that both Christ and His work are most ungratefully and flagrantly dishonoured, by our persistings in the attempt to do for ourselves what He has told us we cannot do, […]