Sentence examples for tenacious against from inspiring English sources

He was equally tenacious against South Africa in the third Test at Newlands as he and Ian Bell rescued a lost cause.

POLISH--Muriel Wallick, after a tenacious fight against cancer.

His tenacious stand against an overwhelmingly powerful state infuriated the KGB and made him a hero in the west.

Yesterday's settlement comes after an unusually long and tenacious campaign against the company by regulators and private lawyers, who had accused it of preying on homeowners, mostly elderly, with a high-pressure sales pitch that concealed the high fees, or points, that it charged for its home-equity loans.

Today, we remember Shaykh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr and his tenacious fight against tyranny, which ended with his murder.

The reason this book sits atop various best seller lists is, like all well-told stories, it pits a compelling and tenacious hero against an unrelenting and sadistic villain.

The idea that former FARC rebels would be allowed to take part in Colombian politics without serving jail time has galvanized opposition, most notably from former President Alvaro Uribe, who launched tenacious offensives against the guerrillas during his time as president from 2002 to 2010.

Taking advantage of clear skies, the United States unleashed a thunderous bombardment of Baghdad today as allied armies strung out over a 350-mile swath of desert fought skirmishes against tenacious Iraqi resistance.

Yet the ambitious and tenacious Clinton would, against all odds, manage to save his career.

James Forrest's stunning equaliser against tenacious Hibernian prevented stuttering Celtic suffering their first domestic defeat of the season.

If the FDIC's tenacious rearguard battle against that insanity had not prevailed our crisis would have been vastly worse.