Sentence examples for surprising tenacity from inspiring English sources

Even North Korea, with zero fans — Kim Jung-Il would not allow them out of his police state — showed surprising tenacity until their Portuguese debacle.

Those ill-equipped for real-world survival cling with surprising tenacity to the place they have come to think of as home.

American officials said that the fighters lacked a unified command but had shown surprising tenacity and skills that indicated military training and units of 20 to 40 people.

But in campaigning until her voice was hoarse, defending her late husband's reputation against corruption charges and attacking Bharatiya Janata for a lack of secularism, she has shown a surprising tenacity -- or ambition -- that would have made her mother-in-law proud.

But the Sahrawi guerrilla movement, Polisario, continued to fight, and with surprising tenacity.The nasty desert war that lasted through the 1980s cost Morocco as many as 25,000 casualties.

Stereotypes prevailed with surprising tenacity.

What was surprising, however, was the tenacity with which this rat found a half-eaten pizza slice (crust in tact), dragged it out of harm's way, and began devouring it like I have many a night at 3 00 a.m.

That two gifted communicators like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair should have stuck with it with such tenacity for so long is surprising.

That Eric Holder's speech made explicit some implied truths — "But for the movement," he said, "I would not be Attorney General and Barack Obama would not be President" — and nodded toward the humbling tenacity of unnamed thousands is not particularly surprising.

Given efficient protection against transposition in animals, the tenacity and variety of transposons may seem surprising.

But she has not forsaken her strengths: she changes direction on ground strokes at surprising times and with accuracy, and she competes for every ball with unflagging tenacity.