Definition of persistant

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

These my grandmother left in their places ( they are still there , more persistent and longer-lived than the generations of man ) and planted others like them , that flourished without careful tending .

(Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)

The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at_least since John_Pendleton_Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank_Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature .

(Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)

The Aristotelian notion of catharsis , the purging of emotion , is a persistent and viable one .

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between , on_the_one_hand , her arranging the ventilation of the common living_room to her own liking , or turning the television off or on without regard_to the wishes of the others , and on_the_other_hand , my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections , bringing my big easy_chair with me , usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state , and plunking myself down in my chair - in_short , behaving as if I owned her room .

(Committee for Economic Development, Distressed...)

Some of this trend toward area vocational_schools has been related to the problems of persistent labor surplus areas and their desire to attract new industry .