Sentence examples for become tenacious from inspiring English sources

Then their staples seemed to lengthen and to become tenacious, so that only a prolonged struggle pried open the brown pods, with a lavish dissemination of the ominous fluff.

David Cameron, whose prime ministerial style was at first that of a hands-off chairman, has become tenacious in backing his education secretary's fight with what some Tories now bitterly call "the machine" of Whitehall.The numbers are up: 357 schools have converted into academies since September and 547 secondary schools, one in six, now have academy status.

The insurgency has also become increasingly tenacious in the neighboring provinces of Herat and Faryab.

"We need to take advantage of that and become more tenacious in asserting the importance of this kind of music.

Prust, a frequent fighter, useful third-line checking wing and personable presence in the dressing room, helped the Rangers become the tenacious team they were for the two and a half seasons he was in New York.

As with Wallander and The Killing, the bleakness of place and circumstance has become a tenacious character itself, those iron skies against the matching greys of sea and land, Saga's snot-green Porsche steadily tooling over that great bridge between one sort of people and another.

One recent change: Russians have become more tenacious.

I felt an increasing hostility toward him that became more tenacious the more unreasonable I felt it to be.

Having lost Jason to a brain tumor, Lois became a tenacious advocate of early detection and with that, BTF's Road to Early Detection campaign was launched.

He became a tenacious holdout in the neighborhood, as all around him buildings were being condemned and demolished for an urban renewal project.

But in his hands, the ideology has fast became a tenacious memebrid — as Tim Hwang, a sociologist and the director of the Web Ecology Project, calls memes that unite two or more cultural phenomena.