Sentence examples for the tenacity of a from inspiring English sources

"He has the tenacity of a pit bull dog.

Indeed, she had fastened onto our house with the tenacity of a monomaniacal abalone.

The article also referred incorrectly to a Martinelli newspaper motto, "With the Tenacity of a Terrier".

The robberies show the tenacity of a militant and criminal underworld still capable of exploiting breaches in security.

He combines the tenacity of a cockroach, the charm of a fox, and the tolerance of a half-dozen linebackers.

"He is a man of ferocious will and powerful ego; he has the tenacity of a pit bull".

I was celebrating the moment — the tenacity of an underdog and a victory that resonated more than any other this decade.

Still those moments of Leicester-ism kept coming: Marc Albrighton's precise low shot for the second goal, the tenacity of an unrelenting backline.

The Puck Building, the inimitable epicenter of SoHo industrial swank even before there was a SoHo, has been around for 128 years but defies its age with the tenacity of an uptown socialite.

For more local news from The Times, including more on a citywide mandate to teach sex education in public middle and high schools, the tenacity of an Upper West Side resident in shutting down a local bar, and Alec Baldwin's political ambitions, see the N.Y./Region section.

But on a 200-foot seaside bluff just outside Comox, a midcentury Modernist house bears witness to the prodigious talent of its designer -- a once prominent figure in North American architecture who is largely unknown in the United States -- and to the tenacity of an owner who recently saved it.