Sentence examples for tenacious movement from inspiring English sources

However, a small but tenacious movement has been defying these social dictates.

A tenacious movement of accused adults and their advocates used the complaints systems with spectacular success, and secured his suspension.

Following the tradition of their tenacious movement, settlers converted sorrow and anger into territorial gain, building a rough outpost near the site of the Friday ambush.

So earlier this year, just when Oprah, the nation's über-dieter, renewed her resolve to snack on flaxseed, Ms. Griffith went the other way, joining a tenacious movement that is scorning the diet industry and what one pair of bloggers labels, "the obesity epidemic booga booga booga".

The Chinese government has tried to contain a budding nationalist spirit among the Uighurs and is battling a small but tenacious terrorist movement of Uighur separatists.

Searching the Akan hinterland for remnants of the banned traditional culture, Sutty uncovers a tenacious resistance movement devoted to preserving the old ways, which turn out to be rooted in a mind-set akin to Earth's Taoism.

But we've made big progress on some of our nation's most stubborn health and pollution problems, and we still have a fighting chance to turn the corner on climate change, thanks to a tenacious grassroots movement and President Obama's leadership.

The small but tenacious open data movement is based on a faith that citizens can build amazing, yet unknown tools with the vast reams of data warehoused on government servers.

Several days ago, the tenacious anti-Thaksin protest movement the PAD (People's Alliance for Democracy), seized the prime minister's office, Government House, in Bangkok.

The motion was typical of the tenacious Roque, whose gentle movements and soft-spoken manner belie his aggressive focus.

All five informants in this group regarded CCAAC as a legitimate and "tenacious" representative of the childcare movement at the national level.