In between, there was an incredible, tenacious rise to the top of the international skate scene, followed by a dramatic, very public fall from grace, which resulted in Tas' incarceration for drug trafficking, and Ben's killing of his girlfriend and then himself.
Tenacious rising senior rower Caroline Burke ran with the idea.
It takes a tenacious American spirit to rise from a people's legacy of Auschwitz and Dachau and run for the second highest office in the world.
The rise of a tenacious insurgency ultimately killed that hope, but at the start of his tour, the main problem was not the insurgency, which had not yet emerged in full force; it was the chaos that followed the invasion.
On the Island, these aggressive and prolific competitors include Oriental bittersweet, a tenacious vine; phragmites, a ubiquitous shoreline reed; multiflora rose, a thicket-like shrub; garlic mustard, a prolific seed-producer; and Norway maple and black locust, both introduced trees.
Print books may be under siege from the rise of e-books, but they have a tenacious hold on a particular group: children and toddlers.
While, at times, this distance shows in a dutiful assembly of images and references that fail to rise off the page, other moments reveal a tenacious imagination and maturing talent.
Subsidies attract a tenacious and vocal lobby.
Boston has a tenacious cultural memory.
"I'm a tenacious blocker," Shiancoe said.
