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    tenacious


    1. I have to give him credit for being tenacious; he went to the library and studied about the bird and how to raise it


    2. TENACIOUS in achieving long-term goals through self-regulation and behavioral control


    3. But the constitution of joint-stock companies renders them in general, more tenacious of established rules than any private copartnery


    4. When he would not let go, one man lifted his leg, boot aimed at the tenacious digits


    5. What many of these women and their proselytized (male) cohorts fail to recognize, howe ver, is that manly qualities are determined by nature and that although the underlying characteristics(s) that typically define (most) males may be artificially modified, nature‘s tenacious capacity to overcome such efforts is demonstrated in the remarkable manner it is able to recover itself


    6. I’m embarrassed about my past blindness; if she wasn’t so tenacious I would have lost a gem without realizing it


    7. Tree Stump: Lack of faith; tenacious; to take a hard stand and not move; cut off from the life of Jesus; possibilities of hope or promise of


    8. These schools and the teachers they graduate are dedicated to subjecting the nation to the onslaught of these particularly tenacious brigades of the Civil War


    9. " I said to him "Sir how can these withered branches live?" He answered and said "This tree is a willow and of a kind that is very tenacious of life


    10. After the Shepherd had examined the branches of them all he said to me "I told you that this tree was tenacious of life

    11. Steng reacts, "We agree, except there is one more point, thanks to Stacy’s tenacious research


    12. Denson is tenacious, asking, “Tell me about Lovejoy? What was the hit and run deal?


    13. In those algid moments, the happy, noisy and tenacious spirit of Salome, with the corncob smile never apart from her lips, was the necessary, indispensable ointment, for the relief of our sorrows


    14. The girl has an absorbent and tenacious character


    15. Nevertheless, badly the priest could be provided with the submission of Tula, who rushed forward at him in a tenacious battle of elbows and words, to be located again in the forefront that was corresponding to him, with the subsequent reply of elbows and words on the part of Father Tobias


    16. He’s a tenacious bastard and he’d love nothing more than seeing me go to prison


    17. He was not easily discouraged; he was a plodder and very tenacious in anything he undertook


    18. There was snow on the ground and bare patches were even the tenacious cedars couldn’t find a crack to plant their roots


    19. She was small and tenacious and would not yield


    20. Scrambling on all fours through the tenacious grass, Sam headed away from the water

    21. that implore her to be as tenacious in her search


    22. I was looking at the old Chip Miller, cute, tenacious, pretty, handsome, elegant, athletic


    23. quite tenacious if they’re intent on getting something)


    24. Exceptional horses that are ridden by tenacious jockeys


    25. tenacious and ruthless (when on a chase), and are adapted to


    26. humans, but incredibly tenacious and assertive upon the hunted


    27. When on a hunt this dog is tenacious, fast, and


    28. tenacious, fighting the odds and still coming out on top


    29. was highly tenacious about finding him


    30. One Au-gust afternoon, overcome by the unbearable weight of her own obstinacy, Amaranta locked herself in her bedroom to weep over her solitude unto death after giving her final answer to her tenacious suitor:

    31. She first tried to kill them with a broom, then with insecticides, and finally with lye, but the next day they were back in the same place, still passing by, tenacious and invincible


    32. The old bookseller, knowing about Aureliano’s love for books that had been read only by the Venerable Bede, urged him with a certain fatherly malice to get into the discussion, and without even taking a breath, he explained that the cockroach, the oldest winged insect on the face of the earth, had already been the victim of slippers in the Old Testa-ment, but that since the species was definitely resistant to any and all methods of extermination, from tomato dices with borax to flour and sugar, and with its one thousand six hundred three varieties had resisted the most ancient, tenacious, and pitiless persecution that mankind had unleashed against any living thing since the beginnings, including man himself, to such an ex-tent that just as an instinct for reproduction was at-tributed to humankind, so there must have been another one more definite and pressing, which was the in-stinct to kill cockroaches, and if the latter had succeeded in escaping human ferocity it was because they had taken refuge in the shadows, where they became invul-nerable because of man’s congenital fear of the dark, but on the other hand they became susceptible to the glow of noon, so that by the Middle Ages already, and in present times, and per omnia secula seculorum, the only effective method for killing cockroaches was the glare of the sun


    33. Upset by two nostalgias facing each other like two mirrors, he lost his marvelous sense of unreality and he ended up recommending to all of them that they leave Macondo, that they forget everything he had taught them about the world and the human heart, that they shit on Horace, and that wher-ever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end


    34. The rest of the house was given over to the tenacious assault of destruction


    35. Then the wind began, warm, incipient, full of voices from the past, the murmurs of ancient geraniums, sighs of disenchantment that preceded the most tenacious nostalgia


    36. Reputation for being tenacious, has the nickname of the ‘Rottweiler’


    37. In reality, the robust and tenacious resistance from the American forts had made him nervous


    38. Steven slowly crept into the lot, intentionally attempting to avoid the tenacious salesmen


    39. It was a political threat that might have brought a timorous leader like Chamberlain to the negotiating table but never a tenacious warrior such as Churchill


    40. But the tenacious Cunningham was undeterred

    41. Not all companies in a sector will fall into the same pattern, but if the student/investor is tenacious enough, he or she will derive a solid indication of how these leverage state


    42. Still, the Vietnamese were tenacious, at times they employed scorched-earth tactics, they fought


    43. “…the political opinion of the masses represents nothing but the final result of an incredibly tenacious and thorough manipulation of their mind and soul


    44. The Morg heavy ships, having their hands full already with the tenacious battleships of Garth’s Main Force and with many of their sensors damaged by synchrotron radiations, had trouble facing Konovalov’s flank attack


    45. He’s quite tenacious


    46. His tenacious mother never had a job growing up and had


    47. “But yes, I am hopeful, and, should you fail, you’ll have to remember that life is more tenacious than you think


    48. “Life is tenacious


    49. Unlike our current consciousness, which is tenacious in its hold on us, our early conscious and unconscious minds seem to have been conceptually separated by a


    50. All of those descriptions are tenacious in maintaining their hold on consciousness




































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    Synonyms for "tenacious"

    coherent tenacious long recollective retentive dogged dour persistent pertinacious unyielding sticky clinging viscous glutinous tough stubborn obstinate resolute purposeful opinionated

    "tenacious" definitions

    good at remembering


    stubbornly unyielding


    sticking together