Sentence examples for tenacious hold of from inspiring English sources

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

But he also looks deeper to suggest the tenacious hold of the idea of the frontier on the American imagination and its attendant fantasies of escape.

How can we explain the extraordinary cohesion of German society right up to the bitter end – the lack of rebellion or mutiny, the relatively low levels of desertion from the ranks of the army, and the tenacious hold of the National Socialist state over the lives of ordinary people until, very suddenly, it was all over?

Scholars have argued about it for centuries, variously reading it as a clash of Asian and Hellenic cultures, a battle of ego and id, and a study in the tenacious hold of the primitive in the face of an imposed modernity.

And Republicans demonstrated a tenacious hold on two of the country's biggest swing states, Ohio and Florida, giving Mr. Trump an important foothold on the presidential map.

It is through this protagonist, whom the author has used before (skeptical, Irish, reluctantly adulterous) that Mr. Quinn approaches his true subject: not the cloudy facts of an old vanishing act, but rather its tenacious hold on the collective imagination of New York.

Why does this novel have such a tenacious hold on the imagination, even of people who have never been to England or never visited a country house?

I suspect that as my own generation and the one after it finally manage to boot the Boomers from their tenacious hold on the steering wheel of this civilization that they've piloted ineluctably and inexorably toward the shoals, all the while whining about the lazy passengers, we will better understand this, and be better, and more understanding.

BEIRUT — Syrians voted on in a tightly controlled election Tuesday that reinforced President Bashar al-Assad's tenacious hold on power, underscoring the failure of U.S. policies aimed at inducing him to step down.

On the world stage, this remote nation's profile has been raised by the filming here of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and by New Zealand's tenacious hold on the America's Cup yacht races.

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.