Sentence examples for tenacious enemy from inspiring English sources

They brainstormed, as they have done after each downing, for ways to confound an ever more tenacious enemy.

To General Moore and many others, it was a warning of what a tenacious enemy they faced.

In the meantime, during the second Transjordan operations Chauvel faced great difficulties with the terrain, the weather and a tenacious enemy; the campaign was not a success.

This force, later augmented by the Australian 7th Division, fought the Battle of Buna-Gona, slowly advancing north against a tenacious enemy under harsh weather and terrain conditions.

With the death of Abu Talib, leadership of the Banu Hashim clan passed to Abu Lahab, a tenacious enemy of Muhammad.

In the evening Hausser, commanding the Seventh Army, informed Rommel's headquarters that his counter-attacks had been temporarily suspended due to "tenacious enemy resistance" and intensive Allied artillery and naval gunfire.

To his American adversaries, however, from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, he was perhaps second only to his mentor, Ho Chi Minh, as the face of a tenacious, implacable enemy.

The Eighth Army, however, battled on doggedly, fighting its way up Italy against a tenacious German enemy, who, even after its Italian allies had thrown in the towel, refused to admit defeat until the very end.

The insurgency is still raging, and the president will have to inspire the security forces, choose generals to lead the fight, and plot tactics to beat a tenacious and experienced enemy.

We are dealing here with a tenacious and stubborn enemy.

And it restated what Mr Brown's premiership had already amply proved: that he is more tenacious than his enemies but unable quite to quell them; that the party is hopelessly beset by in-fighting, and has never managed to escape the old rancour between Tony Blair, Mr Brown and their supporters; that it is unable to see itself as the rest of the country sees it.Dying is an art.