Sentence examples for tenacious resistance from inspiring English sources

Ever since then, he has been confronted with tenacious resistance.

Indeed, it was only tenacious resistance from Mr Duncan Smith that saw off an across-the-board freeze on benefits in the budget on June 22nd.

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.

Hundreds of thousands of mortifying pages detailing their claims since 2004 were scheduled for official publication this summer, despite the tenacious resistance of parliamentary authorities in the courts.In the end, though, the revelations came in agonising stages.

Michael Billington Back in January, who knew that by the year's end those tense, ominous, flexing guitar riffs that open Beyoncé's Black Lives Matter battle manifesto "Formation" would become so indelibly linked to tenacious resistance in the face of full-scale authoritarianism?

At the request of military intelligence officials who complained of tenacious resistance by some subjects, Mr. Rumsfeld approved a list of 16 techniques for use at Guantánamo in addition to the 17 methods in the Army Field Manual in December 2002.

The commanders said a combination of tenacious Iraqi resistance and overexposed supply lines had prompted them to catch their breath.

Taking advantage of clear skies, the United States unleashed a thunderous bombardment of Baghdad today as allied armies strung out over a 350-mile swath of desert fought skirmishes against tenacious Iraqi resistance.

But, combined with the tenacious Iraqi resistance in some places, this tepid reaction has enabled Mr Hussein to do much better in the propaganda war than he is so far doing in the military one.The coalition continues to bombard Iraq with leaflets and by radio, as well as with laser-guided munitions.

By December the Allies' progress had slowed facing tenacious German resistance and the difficult geography of the Italian Peninsula.

Attempts were again made on 13 December, by two battalions of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade, and the attacks were driven back by tenacious German resistance.