GB are not an excessively aggressive team but certainly a tenacious one.
A decade ago I noted that the nation-state was a failing concept, albeit a tenacious one.
Tests have established that the tenacious species, one of the few splashes of green next to a car park in York, is entirely new - and only the sixth plant discovery in Britain and North America in the last 100 years.
It is this tenacious ethos, one could argue, that has led over 70 Israeli companies to be listed in NASDAQ, more than Europe, Japan, Korea and China… combined.
That sequence was largely engineered by a conservative lawmaker from California's Central Valley who has emerged as one of Trump's most tenacious allies on Capitol Hill.
These inexpensive, simple, sturdy handles with spiral metal threads on one end made tenacious walking sticks on pahoehoe lava.
He has, he says, a "tenacious" grip on a story and remains determined to tell this one.
"The election just proves that Loretta Sanchez is one heck of a fund-raiser and one tenacious campaigner," said Allan Hoffenblum, a former Republican consultant, adding that Linda Sanchez stood "no chance" without her.
No longer an MP, fearless and tenacious Tam remains one of my political heroes, though I thought he was wrong about many things, including the Belgrano: she may have been steaming away from the war zone, but she was still an enemy warship threatening British lives.
But the tenacious Eppie is not one to dwell long on misfortune.
