There is something sustaining about that tenacity, and something humbling too.
Regardless, Detroit's core task is sustaining the generation-long tenacity required to see its fledgling revitalization to fruition citywide.
Sustaining volunteer involvement depended on: the commitment, tenacity, skills and abilities of individual volunteers; and mutual support provided to each other through informal networks.
Sisu is an untranslatable Finnish term that blends resilience, tenacity, persistence, determination, perseverance and sustained, rather than momentary, courage: the psychological strength to ensure that regardless of the cost or the consequences, what has to be done will be done.
In 1990, Saddam told the last American ambassador to Baghdad, April Glaspie, "your country has neither the political will, nor the tenacity, to sustain 10,000 deaths in the desert".
At Fox Sports, Jason Whitlock isn't ready to be a part of any sustained applause for the tenacity of the beat-up Bulls and their celebrated coach, Tom Thibodeau: "Maybe the Bulls are injury-riddled because Thibodeau pushes them too hard, makes his available players play too many minutes in pursuit of cementing his 'legend' as the coach who gets the most out of the least".
His tenacity has helped sustain the confidence of big investors like Julian Baker, a managing partner of Baker Brothers Investments, which has invested more than $100 million in Regeneron since 1998.
Against this backdrop, the Knicks will try to sustain the focus and the defensive tenacity that carried them to two victories at home.
Can the Islanders sustain a high level of play and tenacity when the old barn isn't as crowded and the opponent not nearly as loathed?
But there are new undertones of mortality, self-knowledge and tenacity in these songs, written after Mr. Collins sustained two life-threatening cerebral hemorrhages and brain damage in 2005.
The intent is to assist students in acquiring perspective on current and historical events, conducting research and solving problems, and developing tenacity and a capacity for hard and sustained work.
