Sentence examples for for a tenacious from inspiring English sources

Pagenaud, who didn't give up easily, held on for a tenacious second place, followed by Dario Franchitti and Will Power.

This year, she ran for the UK chairmanship at accountancy giant KPMG, and though she didn't win, she was praised for a tenacious campaign.

And there are just enough loose threads in both issues for a tenacious prosecutor like Gowdy to grab hold of.

Perhaps the "secondary" IBM accounts in part for the retention of a tenacious interaction between Smac60 and XIAP because the initial Ala of the IBM is critical for IAP binding [6], [19], [40].

The new case is the result of a tenacious search for a vehicle that might push the Supreme Court to resolve the question of whether a long-ignored 1968 law supplanted Miranda.

A retired police detective, Mr. Paroli has developed a reputation for being a tenacious, Boss Tweed-like party figure.

George Cruikshank was such a brilliant artist that his emotive illustrations for "Oliver Twist" retain a tenacious hold on the imagination.

Board members say Ms. Pearce, 46, has also been a powerful force for Long Wharf, a tenacious fund-raiser who is fiercely committed to the institution.

And although a British undercover documentary once captured him in mid-torrent, profanities flowing in a diatribe directed at a young intern, earning Ramsay the title of one of the country's "most unbearable bosses," the people who work for him show a tenacious, irrational-seeming loyalty verging on love.

Harrington is a good scorer down low; Weatherspoon, who has missed the past three games for personal reasons, is a tenacious rebounder.

Brian Haw, who has died aged 62 after being treated for lung cancer, was a tenacious peace campaigner who in 2001 took up residence in Parliament Square, beneath a banner that read "Stop Killing My Kids", and refused to relinquish his patch for nearly 10 years.