0 holding tightly onto something, or keeping an opinion in a determined way: --
1 unwilling to accept defeat or stop doing or having something: --
Seles is a tenacious opponent – she never gives in.
Perhaps the most tenacious use of the term is that people should get what they deserve, which necessarily involves looking backwards as part of the process of measuring desert.
It seems to be precisely our task if we are to take seriously, and regard with care, the tenacious, yet tentative field that we are building.
They daily continually challenge, often in subtle yet tenacious ways, any dogmatic tendencies in state bureaucracies, fighting to keep their own creative avenues open, achieving great things.
Koizumi has been tenacious in pushing forward structural reform, despite all the opposition to it.
Once established, basic outlooks on politics, ranging from ideologies to understandings of particular aspects of governments or orientations towards political groups or parties, are generally tenacious.
It takes some tenacious mining to wrest anything out of them.
He told us one story that strongly showed how tenacious he was.
If the link between lagged and current voting is artefactual, it is an unusually tenacious artefact.
