Voorbeelden van tenacity

• 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.