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 Translation for 'to persist' from English to French
VERB   to persist | persisted | persisted
persisting | persists
SYNO to die hard | to endure | to hang in | ...
persisterto persist
subsister [rester, persister]to persist
se prolonger [maladie, symptôme]to persist
méd.
persévérer [fièvre]
to persist
2 Words
s'obstiner dans qc.to persist in sth.
traverser qc. [générations] to persist through sth. [e.g. traditions through generations]
3 Words
persister à faire qc.to persist in doing sth.
s'entêter à faire qc.to persist in doing sth.
persévérer à faire qc.to persist in doing sth.
ne pas démordre de qc.to persist on doing sth.
5+ Words
L'erreur est humaine, persévérer [dans son erreur] est diabolique. To err is human, (but) to persist is diabolical. [Citation : Seneca]
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Usage Examples English
  • For example, for a manager who wishes to be perceived as persevering in the face of adversity, or to avoid blame for earlier mistakes, it may be rational to persist with a project for personal reasons even if it is not the benefit of their company.
  • A few companies have tried to persist in the face of competition from lower cost-labor in Eastern Europe and Asia.
  • Opposition to vaccination has posed a challenge to herd immunity, allowing preventable diseases to persist in or return to populations with inadequate vaccination rates.
  • The parasite also influences an anti-apoptotic mechanism, allowing the infected host cells to persist and replicate.
  • In other words, the niche is the sum of the habitat requirements and behaviors that allow a species to persist and produce offspring.

  • These conditions favor the growth of more evergreens and make it more difficult for deciduous plants to persist.
  • Blocks that need to persist outside of the scope they are created in may need to be copied.
  • In 2012, persistent spin helices of synchronized electrons were made to persist for more than a nanosecond, a 30-fold increase over earlier efforts, and longer than the duration of a modern processor clock cycle.
  • The repeating stage allows the disease to persist in wheat even though the alternate host may be removed.
  • Integration problems arising from the incorporation of various rebel factions into the FRCI, as well as former Gbagbo loyalists, continue to persist.

  • After she chose to persist with her religious vocation and entered a convent, he remained celibate for the rest of his life.
  • Thus, a relict neuter gender can arguably be said to persist in Italian and Romanian.
  • Nonetheless, the opinion that the 1909 ruling is legally binding continues to persist, even among the better-read and moderate Parsis.
  • "Salmonella" species lead predominantly host-associated lifestyles, but the bacteria were found to be able to persist in a bathroom setting for weeks following contamination, and are frequently isolated from water sources, which act as bacterial reservoirs and may help to facilitate transmission between hosts.
  • These negative effects tend to persist, and even escalate after the divorce or separation occurs.

  • Sober and Wilson argue that the belief also must be true and constantly reinforced, or it would not be likely enough to persist.
  • The fact that the manual override is present and widely used hinders the adoption of accurate encoding declarations on the Web; therefore the problem is likely to persist.
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