Sentence examples for have been tenacious from inspiring English sources

It is true that they have been tenacious in hanging on to, and turning out, their traditional constituencies trade union voters, blacks, teachers and others.

But the family members of the four churchwomen, as well as some Salvadorans who barely survived prolonged torture during the war, have been tenacious in seeking to hold General Vides responsible for crimes of that era.

Because of their high tolerance to a wide range of biotic and abiotic conditions, fescues have been tenacious invaders of terrestrial habitats, colonising every continent on the Earth in greater abundance and distribution than any other group of higher plants [30].

Particularly since her marriage to a Jewish man (philosemites love 'em so much they marry 'em!) she has been tenacious in her defence of the Jewish people, like an American expat in Paris who rails against the padlocks on the city bridges for not being sufficiently Parisian.

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Nonetheless, Platonism has been tenacious, with much of the debate centering around what variety of abstract object musical works are.

Alongside companies like Google, and Apple doubling down on its own mapping activities, Nokia has been tenacious in carving out and growing a position for itself as well.

The hitting has been tenacious with the Ducks leading, 220-116, in that department.

Since the campaign, however, Obama has been tenacious in his passivity, opting to not take direct action to end the regulation, preferring to let Congress decide the matter.

No wonder the Salome legend and its twentieth-century variants have been so tenacious.

But none have been more tenacious than the belief that the gift of comedy is developed, or at least refined, by a traumatic childhood.