Sentence examples for tenacious of from inspiring English sources

And Ms. Walters remained the most tenacious of the getters.

Photograph: BBC Old women are tenacious of life, as Giles Coren discovered while filming The Supersizers Go Wartime (BBC2).

In an ominous instance, a butterfly "eyes me in conscious agony as I try to kill it by pinching its thick thorax — very tenacious of life.

The café's clientele turned over; the tables were set for dinner, decorated with lit candles, menus in place; the staff even switched off the WiFi, in order to chase out the most tenacious of the afternoon Googlers.

The actor David Chandler, who portrays a different character in the movie than he did in the stage version, said: "He's tenacious of getting what he needs, but he does it with absolute care and sensitivity, finesse".

Its premise replaces the civilization that makes our lives soft and easy with that most tenacious of American dreams: the frontier, where settlers get to reinvent society from the ground up and prove their worth in feats of manly valor.

5 Current clinical treatment guidelines for systemic therapy of unresectable or metastatic melanoma underscore the need for definitive recommendations concerning effective therapy in light of the tenacious nature of the disease and relative ineffectiveness of existing therapeutic options.

These measures are, in great measure, the result of the tenacious efforts of many women legislators in both houses of Congress, as well as men like Senator Carl Levin.

BUT the results of his tenacious pursuit of his agenda, decade in and decade out, are unmistakable already.

His writing is known for its extreme subtlety, its meticulous attention to detail, and its tenacious pursuit of the logical implications of supposedly "marginal" features of texts.

She is one of the most tenacious politicians of her generation, whose willingness to study and correct course is rare in an age of unyielding partisanship.