"persistent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In my childhood I was known as an extremely persistent questioner, so much that in school I was allowed to ask no more than three per period so that I would not take up all the time.
- Hope asked the greatest number of questions, 782, while Tite, who seems to have been anxious to display his professional knowledge as well as counteract Hope's stylistic bias, was a persistent questioner, with 426 questions.
- Their safety lay in the fact that they were Spanish; they could (and would) roundly abuse and probably draw a knife on any persistent questioner.
- At another rally, Howe dismissed a persistent Liberal questioner, saying "Look here, my good man, when the election comes, why don't you just go away and vote for the party you support?
- A diversion of some sort was needed to keep the more persistent questioners at bay.
- The impeachment provision "exists to deal with issues that are determined to be impeachable," Mr. Collins replied to a persistent questioner.
- The other Yank is Jim Courier, who fires off the odd obscenity in public and kicked a tennis ball like a soccer midfielder and yesterday offered to do a little "one-on-one interview" with a persistent questioner.
- AT his home in Manhattan, Sidney Thrake was seated behind a table in an upstairs room, facing two persistent questioners - Commissioner Weston and Joe Cardona.
- "What the hell, yes," was Mr. Noziger's reply to the persistent questioner, Joseph Alioto, the former mayor of San Francisco who was the attorney for a number of California rice cooperatives.
- Lesley Stahl, who manages "Face the Nation," has developed into a admirably persistent questioner who doesn't mind being a touch offensive in the interests of dredging forth a comprehensible answer from a reluctant biggie.
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