Sentence examples for a more tenacious from inspiring English sources

Martin was a more tenacious defender, Ford better on the drive.

And they have often been a more tenacious check on the government of the day than the official opposition.

That is because a more tenacious, better-funded lot is now beginning to take the problem seriously: big business.That may seem surprising, for heavy industry was the loudest critic of the Kyoto deal struck three years ago.

The Taliban has proved to be a more tenacious foe than the Pentagon had hoped, prompting prominent lawmakers here to advocate ways to increase the pressure, including the more extensive use of special operations forces and even major ground units.

Toys, it would seem, are a more tenacious consumer item during a recession than other products.

"I've learned that I'm a lot more tenacious and have a lot more guts than I knew I had," said Mr. Margules.

If you've ever skinned a rabbit, the pulling the skin down a raccoon is similar, but a little more tenacious.

The three-door Vauxhall would be a much more tenacious handler with the optional Performance Pack, but without this it struggles to control body roll and stick to the track surface when pushed really hard.

Having applied no skepticism to the claims of the two QFADs, Wallace now turns to this Pollack person, and I suspect that the interlocutions will become a lot more tenacious.

The Man in the Picture takes the opposite course: Oliver, a young medieval scholar, visits the college rooms of Theo Parmitter, his former tutor, who is in thrall to a supernatural curse exerted by a creepy Venetian painting, and shows himself to be an even more tenacious narrator than the Ancient Mariner.

They brainstormed, as they have done after each downing, for ways to confound an ever more tenacious enemy.