Sentence examples for tenacious hold from inspiring English sources

Bell argues that the insurgency was fuelled by the extraordinarily tenacious hold of religious culture.

(That accounts, no doubt, for Beethoven's tenacious hold on Mannes's summer schedule).

But, initially at least, A.A. used the term figuratively to suggest the tenacious hold drinking has on alcoholics.

The last old soldier or sailor has died and almost all of the witnesses have gone, but the war exerts a tenacious hold on the imagination.

Two generations later, the enduring, invisible presence of Cullman's old sundown sign can seem to reflect racism's tenacious hold on the Deep South.

Print books may be under siege from the rise of e-books, but they have a tenacious hold on a particular group: children and toddlers.

Jones, an experienced, tenacious holding midfielder, played in several friendlies at the senior level for Germany, but those games now do not count toward cementing eligibility.

Certainly, such a future is by no means ensured because religion holds a mighty and tenacious grip on the human psyche.

Pakistan has responded to the tenacious Indian hold on Kashmir by engaging in a large-scale covert effort to foment revolution, in part through the systematic use of insurgents.

Ms Salgado, slight but tenacious, has held tough ministerial posts at health and public administration.

Microsoft, on the other hand, is unbelievably tenacious and holds an almost insuperable lead in market share.