Many southerners have held tenaciously to this view, mounting resistance to challenges to the status quo.
People throughout Europe held tenaciously to the dream of ecumenism, although no attempt at union was successful.
Whether or not you believe the story, you believe in Ms. Danner's Corinne, an insecure and flawed woman who holds tenaciously to the spark of life.
The waters near the border have been a frequent point of debate on sovereignty over an islet northeast of Pusan held tenaciously by South Korea but claimed by Japan.
Although Québec was a highly industrialized, urban, and relatively outward-looking society in 1960, the Union Nationale party, in power since 1944, seemed increasingly anachronistic as it held tenaciously to a conservative ideology and relentlessly defended outdated traditional values.
Nägeli, a stubborn man who held tenaciously to such ideas as spontaneous generation, did not accept environmental factors acting on variations in species, believing instead that evolution occurred in jumps.
One of the authors, Prof Richard Lathe from Edinburgh University, says: "The obstacle to progress – and to funding – is that outdated theories are held tenaciously by the protagonists, and they decry any alternatives".
Americans may be holding tenaciously to a strict view of personal morality, but they say that they do not want to impose their views on others (abortion seems to be the big exception).The fact that there was a substantial religious-moral vote is not by itself evidence of a political breakthrough by religious conservatives.
Though only in his mid-30's, Mr. Calderazzo, the new pianist for the Branford Marsalis band and a longtime associate of Michael Brecker, is one of those 60's-era burners: he holds tenaciously to the reins of a tune, shaking intensity into it.
He recalled having served as vicar for education in the New York archdiocese for three and a half years in the 1980's, and said he had been "continually captivated by the wonder and goodness" of a community of faith that educated its children, aided the sick and needy, held tenaciously to church teachings and rejected "all forms of discrimination, mistreatment and cruelty".
