0 the determination to continue what you are doing
The most extraordinary thing, indeed, about that extraordinary man is the tenacity of his survival in the minds and memories of those who knew him.
The tenacity to life possessed by these partly gorged females is remarkably great as compared to that of fully gorged and ungorged females.
Despite its heat and tenacity, the factious spirit did burn itself out eventually, giving way to the quest for consensus at all costs.
At this point we have to emphasize the tenacity of the distinction between the physical and the mental.
These groups guarded the limited powers they each respectively possessed with fierce tenacity.
For the last two years of the war he was a prisoner, fending off questions with a tremendous tenacity and elaborate ingenuity.
Both also, through their sheer physical tenacity, outlived most of their favourites and advisers and in a sense outlived their own times.
The strength and tenacity of the civil groups manifested in the organisation of wide-spread protests against structural adjustment policies between 1988 and 1990.