Demonstrating the tenacity that firms expect of their associates, Mr. Purcell told his class: "There is no way I won't get a listing I go after.
Federer pushed and probed, Djokovic stood firm, both men delighting Centre Court with tenacity and athleticism and refusing to the last to offer certainty as to the result.
"It was a joint effort," Ms. Chen said, a combination of "a firm willing to expand its horizons" and "my tenacity".
Reuters news agency, which last year produced an excellent in-depth report on the project, has given one explanation of the combination of forces that persuaded the palm-oil company to change its approach.That Rimba Raya has persisted and won through these obstacles is a tribute to the tenacity of its promoters, a small Hong Kong firm called infiniteEARTH.
She joined the radical law firm run by Benedict Birnberg and soon demonstrated her hallmarks - tenacity, fastidious attention to detail, and a ferocious capacity for hard work.
Long a member and senior attorney at our firm, Irving will be remembered and admired for his strength, wisdom, tenacity, leadership and vision.
But her partner at Boston law firm Lichten & Liss-Riordan, Harold Lichten, describes her as having the heart of a grass-roots organizer with the tenacity of "a pit bull with a Chihuahua in its mouth".
It was that tenacity that kept her going for years after her diagnosis, said Lewis B. Kaye, president of the brokerage firm with which she was associated during two stints in the 1980's and 1990's.
Martina Garretti Janet Montgomeryy) finds her firm's cutthroat landscape challenging, but what she lacks in an Ivy League education she more than makes up for with tenacity and blue-collar insight.
John Purcell, who runs a financial recruitment firm in London, said some people were reacting with "Churchillian bravery and stoicism," referring to Winston Churchill, who was known for his tenacity and courage during World War II.
