0 to try to do or continue doing something in a determined way, despite having problems: --
Despite receiving little support, the women are persevering with their crusade to fight crime.
The education director is persevering in his attempt to obtain additional funding for the school.
It looks as if the policy will be a success, providing that the government perseveres and does not give in to its critics.
1 to try to do or continue doing something in a determined way, despite difficulties: --
But it is worth persevering because this is one of the first accounts of an island that was then terra incognita.
These problems should not prevent us from persevering, but it is useful to recognise that they are still there and need attention.
Furthermore, these themes tended to persevere as recognisable self-contained packages, eminently suitable to a self-conscious and manipulative deployment within a rhetorically conceived iconographic scheme.
Women are to remain silent and persevere in the face of a difficult home life.
Nevertheless, this edition does offer some minor benefits to those willing to persevere.
However, for the reader who perseveres or who has previous acquaintance with advanced formal logic, there is clearly a great deal of valuable material here.
It encourages them to persevere with life, kindling hopes that a brighter future is around the corner.
They incited the public to persevere in the boycott.
