The most extraordinary thing, indeed, about that extraordinary man is thetenacityof his survival in the minds and memories of those who knew him.From theCambridge English Corpus
Thetenacityto life possessed by these partly gorged females is remarkably great as compared to that of fully gorged and ungorged females.From theCambridge English Corpus
Despite its heat andtenacity, the factious spirit did burn itself out eventually, giving way to the quest for consensus at all costs.From theCambridge English Corpus
At this point we have to emphasize thetenacityof the distinction between the physical and the mental.From theCambridge English Corpus
These groups guarded the limited powers they each respectively possessed with fiercetenacity.From theCambridge English Corpus
For the last two years of the war he was a prisoner, fending off questions with a tremendoustenacityand elaborate ingenuity.From theCambridge English Corpus
Both also, through their sheer physicaltenacity, outlived most of their favourites and advisers and in a sense outlived their own times.From theCambridge English Corpus
The strength andtenacityof the civil groups manifested in the organisation of wide-spread protests against structural adjustment policies between 1988 and 1990.From theCambridge English Corpus
The final cadence, with slowing harmonic and surface rhythms, reflected a submission to the canines'tenacity.From theCambridge English Corpus
Those who advocated the classroom uses of the gramophone stressed consistently the importance of intelligent listening - that listening to 'real music' required diligence andtenacity.From theCambridge English Corpus
We would also like to thank the chart abstractors for their diligence andtenacity.From theCambridge English Corpus
Used a simple description of dispersal, parameterized using field observations, within a heterogeneous landscape to evaluate the likely distances travelled and tenacities of linyphiid spiders.From theCambridge English Corpus
A second problem is that a theory meant to explain countertheoretical outcomes in economics has become a description of permanence, stasis, ortenacityin politics.From theCambridge English Corpus
The second process basic to ballooning is the frequency, ortenacity(wheretenacityis the frequency subtracted from unity), of ballooning events (appendix 5).From theCambridge English Corpus
Most disturbing in this debate has been thetenacitywith which the critiques of the admixture interpretations have maintained some of the above fallacious arguments.From theCambridge English Corpus
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