Sentence examples for pertinacity from inspiring English sources

The latter contended that the convention should be held in November, 1842, while the former urged with great pertinacity, and succeeded, that it should be postponed until May, 1844.The new Congress convene in December.

He commanded a division on the French left wing at Waterloo and attacked with great pertinacity.

Nevertheless, as all municipal medical examiners can testify, such triumphs of pertinacity are anything but rare.

"He possesses one quality which will ever ensure success, and that is a bull dog pertinacity and perseverance which renders him ignorant of the fact that he is ever whipped".

It is only the pertinacity of the mind/body dichotomy that sustains the notion that a sufficient biological account of the brain would be reductionist in the negative sense.

Avoiding the wooden spoon was their priority, not denying England the title, and they had hardly given up at the end against Ireland with Stuart Hogg denied a try by Jamie Heaslip's pertinacity.

So her books are about the 20th century, with a kind of bite and pertinacity not many other writers have had.

That sensibility more or less aligned with the mood of Clinton, whose efforts had the patient pertinacity of someone trying to make a case for something reasonable at the D.M.V.

Clark: My girls reflect my perseverance, my pertinacity.

But Alastair showed unbelievable pertinacity.

1334) Ockham discusses heresy and heretics, arguing that for someone to be a heretic it is not enough that something that person believes is heresy, he or she must also believe it "pertinaciously", and to discover pertinacity it is often necessary to enter into discussion to find whether the person is ready to abandon the error when it is shown to be such.