How To Use Tenacity In A Sentence

You need a lot of tenacity and entrepreneurial skill and the ability to network with a lot of different people. Times, Sunday Times
Whatever you might think about the man, his morals, or his use of drugs, you have to admire his tenacity in the face of illness.
Today's Signa and Vectra hold the road with an accuracy and tenacity alien to their ancestors, making them good fun to drive.
You need tenacity, persistence and a thick skin. Times, Sunday Times
She succeeded by virtue of her tenacity rather than her talent.

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Today he cites his father's 'stamina and tenacity' as his defining qualities. Times, Sunday Times
I ask you to cherish her unbridled passion for ideas and to tolerate her tenacity in following questions to satisfying conclusions.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.
Obviously threatened by our tenacity, the owner called his goons, five men, and grabbed my friend (a woman) as she approached the counter with another question.
Make a virtue of your tenacity, or overwhelmingly feel that life is too short? Times, Sunday Times
The one quality that they all shared, in the end, was stickability - the determination to cling to office with the tenacity of barnacles clinging to a crumbling wreck.
Lack of tenacity could be a more accurate diagnosis.
This inability to translate pressure into points seemed to erode their tenacity and the forwards, in particular, lost concentration.
Investigative journalists are probing with impressive tenacity. Times, Sunday Times
I think what also countervailed any condemning supposition that Roosevelt sacrificed servicemen to get the US into a war with Japan was the real determination, lethality and tenacity of the dictatorial enemies of the US, and Europe. AP Poll: Bush Is Both the Biggest "Hero" and "Villain"
Her incredible tenacity, perseverance and determination to succeed is a commendable example to everyone.
The starfish alone has both the strength and tenacity to force an oyster open.
Observe the patellae -- with what tenacity they cling to save themselves from being washed into the deep water, and being devoured by the fishes that are playing in its chasms! The King's Own
He pursued this aim with tenacity and political skill. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
I've learnt so much about dealing with it and about human tenacity in general. The Sun
Her world is as yet unswayed by the opinions of others, which makes her tenacity so interesting and invigorating. Times, Sunday Times
Talent, hard work and sheer tenacity are all crucial to career success.
She's improved her sprint speed but overall it's her tenacity that defines her. Times, Sunday Times
I have been impressed by his sheer patience, doggedness, and tenacity.
The skill and tenacity of the teaching assistants were very apparent, often in the face of challenging new extensions to their role.
Lack of tenacity could be a more accurate diagnosis.
Cunning eyes, wily grins, pesky faces had beamed tenacity and aptness and survival.
The tenacity of the gay community paid off in a huge way.
The SES can provide the continuity and long-term tenacity required for significant change governmentwide. Npr Report On Human Resource Management Part B
The 9th of May, after another such an up-and-down course, ascending hills and descending into the twilight depths of deepening valleys, we came suddenly upon the Mukondokwa, and its narrow pent-up valley crowded with rank reedy grass, cane, and thorny bushes; and rugged tamarisk which grappled for existence with monster convolvuli, winding their coils around their trunks with such tenacity and strength that the tamarisk seemed grown but for their support. How I Found Livingstone
And yet even with nothing but a future looming with gloomy forebodings, they repopulated the barren wasteland of space, bracing for the worst, testing the extents of their tenacity and ingenuity.
Calibre and resourcefulness seemed to me to be an improvement on fieldcraft and tenacity. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
He slouches with disappointment and straightens with hope, matching Terri's corrosiveness with his own brand of compassion and burrowing into the female enclave of Terri's home with both tenderness and tenacity.
Regarding the mixing of cement and lime with saccharated water, the writer made some experiments several months ago by mixing neat cement and lime with pure water and with saccharated water, with the result that the sugar proved positively detrimental to the cement, while it increased the tenacity of briquettes of lime. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
If Richards's film is a tribute to the tenacity of the treasure hunters, its very existence is proof of his dogged obstinacy.
With the camera in tow, Victoria simpered and clung to her husband with a tenacity that spoke well for his patience.
Dressed simply in brown unitards, they brought a workmanlike tenacity to their precarious endeavors.
But he also understood that the US had immovable faith in their strength, will power, and tenacity once mobilised.
This unfaltering tenacity has stayed with her all of her life. Times, Sunday Times
Elton's stout defence of his thesis parallels the tenacity of his beliefs regarding the practice of history.
This proved the best, probably only strategy in the end, and the film is finally as much about the bravery and tenacity of one gay man in the face of annihilating social forces as anything else.
[T] he tenacity with which he is standing his ground on this issue, in the teeth of widespread catcalls, ridicule and pressure from so much of the country and the media, is heroic.
Yesterday was a reminder that he has both the ability and the tenacity to become a leading member of that club. Times, Sunday Times
Your tenacity and fact-finding skills give you the edge in negotiations. The Sun
But Tkachuk alters the team's look more than the others because his tenacity is wrapped around enough offensive talent to make him the most dangerous player on the ice on some nights. USATODAY.com - Tkachuk missing ingredient for Blues
Wilson was tentative for the first few weeks and didn't display his usual tenacity.
Experiments in regard to the relation between chemical composition and strength of the material have established that a large amount of silicium, graphite, manganese, and combined carbon reduce the elasticity, strength, and tenacity of cast iron, and that a limited percentage of silicium counteracts the injurious influence produced by an excess of combined carbon. Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885
Successful people are not born. They are made of toil, sweat, perseverance, tenacity and iron will. Dr Roopleen
Fabric made with this tandem-spun yarn doesn't pill, since the core fiber - often a high-tenacity polyester that is prone to cause pilling - is almost completely encased in cotton, which doesn't pill.
Instead of just having innovative ideas, you have the tenacity to deal with the details. The Sun
In fact the more we "dissect" Life itself thus separate and categorize it with such tenacity, do we find ourselves falling further and further away from the Truth of Life - God if you will. en Español Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
Zawahiri formed his own terrorist group as a teenager, and ever since he has fought autocratic Muslim regimes and the United States with both tenacity and intelligence.
His courageous polemic against the tenacity of phallocentrism in Western art shines out, to quote Portia, ‘like a good deed in a naughty world.’
A natural tenacity and cussedness led her to espouse many causes which today are taken for granted - women's rights and contraception, for example - but which were then considered slightly odd.
Haute-Vienne, under Louis Philippe, small man of fair skin and very insipid appearance, but with gray eyes which betrayed the depth of a physiologist and the tenacity of a student. Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2
Instead of just having innovative ideas, you have the tenacity to deal with the details. The Sun
The categorization of Prussian blue as animal is a measure of the tenacity of this ordering system, persisting even after it was clear that a similar result could be obtained from other, nonanimal sources. 4 The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Their claims require evidence that can sometimes only be obtained with detective-like tenacity.
From chess to poker to racquetball, the science officer was a formidable competitor, employing a level of tenacity and even stubbornness that had become the stuff of much good-natured, respectful ribbing aboard ship. Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
Your blend of ability and tenacity will turn work dreams into action. The Sun
The shrub's sheer tenacity makes it difficult to eradicate as it forms dense thickets that retard native trees' growth.
The Players' Choice Award is presented to the one player who displays athletic skill, tenacity and desire while playing with a sportsmanlike attitude.
Yet the film celebrates the idea that if you have the will and tenacity, you can come through hard times, and that there's no need to depend on the federal government to save you.
Cut to Tenacity, where Maria dares to have an opinion and is called conniving and twitchy by Holly's loyal hench-angel. Starpulse Entertainment News
Their tenacity alone makes them people who have the capacity to outwork their adversaries.
You have the ability and tenacity to learn new skills. The Sun
Men of competence will never be extinguished from the memory of humanity because his wisdom, his dedication to the improvement of humanity, his tenacity for the progress of science in favor of mankind, makes people everywhere, all believers, all ideologies, feel in one way or another under an obligation to his talents and his boldness. Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo - Nobel Lecture
The evidence of their tenacity is apparent in the further growth and divergence in their language communities following Rhapta's decline, as is reflected in the linguistic record, and the material evidence accumulating in the growing archaeological record. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.
It would be hard to name more than a handful of journos who could equal Jill for uncompromising courage, tenacity and integrity.
I don't recollect how long he held the office, but it was long enough to make the title stick to him for the rest of his life with the tenacity of a militia colonelcy or village diaconate. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
I like their tenacity despite their sad mildewed leaves in June.
With her trademark tenacity, she spent two hours on the phone from her office and the British consulate, getting to ear-bash the woman in charge of the mobile phone division and get a foot in the headquarters door.
It is constantly seen that the waverer, of nervous atrabiliar constitution, no sooner overcomes the agony of irresolution, than he flings himself on his object with a vindictive tenacity that seems to repay him for all the moral humiliation inflicted on him by his stifled doubts. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre
Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
He had a chance to measure the motive forces of men; their qualities of character; their foresight; their tenacity of purpose.
This account has depicted the sultana's tenacity and political savvy in holding the Ayyubid kingdom together.
Clawing through those initial pages with their illegible scrawl and phonetically terrestrial sounds required the tenacity of a saint.
Dressed simply in brown unitards, they brought a workmanlike tenacity to their precarious endeavors.
But it is still commendable for its determination and tenacity.
This is especially important for those valuable minerals which exhibit a brittle to very brittle tenacity, such as cassiterite, sphalerite and the tungsten minerals scheelite and wolframite. Chapter 20
As a team, they combine skill and tenacity with discipline and physicality. Times, Sunday Times
The earthy matter is composed chiefly of calcium phosphate, about 58 per cent. of the weight of the bone, calcium carbonate about 7 per cent., calcium fluoride and magnesium phosphate from 1 to 2 per cent. each and sodium chloride less than 1 per cent.; they confer on bone its hardness and rigidity, while the animal matter (ossein) determines its tenacity. II. Osteology. 2. Bone
Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
Ably financiered by the Book Agent, who held on, and worked on, with a a tenacity that demands universal praise, it kept afloat during the dark war days, when many richer journals and longer established, had to succumb. An Apology for African Methodism
She survived the ordeal with cuts and bruises and has been praised for her tenacity.
In elementary school, Mamie had the spunk and tenacity to become the first girl to integrate a local baseball league team.
I always use the word tenacity, but to come in here and lose those first two games, and the way we bounced back to win these last two is huge," Swisher said. The Seattle Times
So, after gaining an insight into the School of Artillery, it seems making a good gunner involves much tenacity, endurance and substantially more than a desire to watch things explode.
In explicating Bertrand Russell's work on cravings and physiological desire, Burke draws on the historical research he did to dwell on the intensity and tenacity of a physiological craving.
I always admired him for his tenacity of purpose and dedication - and envied his super brain-power.
While tenacity is an admirable quality to some degree; after all, he was re-elected by conveying his "steadfastness" versus Kerry's perceived waffling, it can be a debilitating and cumbersome attribute. October 2005
Talent, hard work and sheer tenacity are all crucial to career success.
Later, sodbusters would curse the tenacity of the area's gnarled trees and search for arable land elsewhere, leaving the timber to deer and squirrels.
At work, your ability and tenacity get you noticed. The Sun
I've noticed it promotes in me more courage and tenacity. Christianity Today
If its tenacity in our garden is anything to go by, willowherb (along with cockroaches, apparently) will survive any nuclear onslaught.
The photograph, she adds, "exemplifies the tenacity of certain myths within the historical record."
But now came England's sheer tenacity. Times, Sunday Times
He doesn't always block his man as designed, but he usually gets the job done, thanks to his tenacity.
The skill and tenacity you show when there are financial deals to be done may surprise you. The Sun
What she lacks in skill she makes up for with tenacity.
What Mark has achieved he has done with pure grit and determination, tenacity and hard work.
You also need tenacity and persistence. Times, Sunday Times
With so many suppliers and variables he had to possess a fair degree of tenacity.
Lincoln may not have emerged from his log cabin clutching the Emancipation Proclamation, but what is remarkable about the man is the tenacity with which he held certain core principles and ideas throughout his life. The Path To Proclamation
He pursued this aim with tenacity and political skill. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
If only his tenacity in pursuing ways to halt the arms race were contagious and could be passed on to certain political leaders.
Tenacity and persistency is what I would call their game characteristic, sprinkled with luck, yes.
We should respect and admire their tenacity and self-belief, if not their ability to provide us with actual data.
You need tenacity, persistence and a thick skin. Times, Sunday Times
Regarding divine healing, tenacity allows us to confront and overcome all root causes of diseases, such as unforgiveness and other unconfessed sin. Crosswalk.com - Home
The third showed a player with tenacity, determination and desire to get that hat-trick. The Sun
Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
You also need tenacity and persistence. Times, Sunday Times
We see the kind of stuff this young Scotch lad was made of in the tenacity with which he held to his plan.
They represent tenacity and overcoming opponents after a fight. Times, Sunday Times
His youthful enthusiasm seemed to blend seamlessly with the tenacity of Steve Thompson and Phil Vickery.
You need a lot of tenacity and entrepreneurial skill and the ability to network with a lot of different people. Times, Sunday Times
For instance, if a man wishes to superinduce upon silver that yellow color of gold or an increase of weight (observing the laws of matter), or transparency on an opaque stone, or tenacity on glass, or vegetation on some substance that is not vegetable — we must consider, I say, what kind of rule or guidance he would most desire. The New Organon
In life, Cleopatra Selene survived the machinations around her and became queen to King Juba of Numidia, in North Africa; in this absorbing historical novel, she becomes a woman with a tenacity and heart that would have made her famous mother proud. A Kingdom of Wonder, For Those With Eyes to See
In sizes for handguns, rifles and shotguns, the Exomesh fabric has an interlocking construction that combines woven steel cables laminated to high-tenacity nylon.
I myself would have had great difficulty locating him in Brundisium, but I, on the other hand, could not follow him softly, swiftly, silently, through numerous passages, with the tenacity of a sleen, with the menace of a larl, intent upon his tracks. Cinnamon Roll
The Egyptian queen clutches the asp with a frightening tenacity, while the naked object of Zeus's golden shower grasps the coins from Olympus as one who fully understands the terms of the consummation being visited upon her.
You have shown great tenacity in making this relationship work, but tenacity is one thing and denial quite another. Times, Sunday Times
Tenacity is the bridge to success.
Wright's tenacity and solid game plan provided him with the win over his marquee opponent and the young goofy-footer will need to employ the same tact as he continues here at Bells Beach. Transworld Surf
Vitamin B 5 can increase the inherit tenacity of the hair and fully reactivate the exanimate hair.
The sheer tenacity of belief in it, rather than fact, has sustained a form of representative government for over two centuries.
And then, just when he had reason to be content with a display of uncharacteristic tenacity, he missed an easy putt for par on the last.
She's improved her sprint speed but overall it's her tenacity that defines her. Times, Sunday Times
He is owed a great debt of gratitude from us all for his confidence and tremendous tenacity. Times, Sunday Times
I also applaud the man's tenacity, intellect and ability. The Sun
You have the right blend of ability and tenacity to pick up new skills and teach others. The Sun
I once tried to do a bibliography of this bibliographer, but lacking his tenacity, I gave up. HENSLEY CHARLES WOODBRIDGE
The enterprises that endured and, quite frankly, thrived were those that exhibited the characteristics of the best prizefighters: stamina, agility, intelligence, and tenacity.
Genetic endowments may be responsible for native intelligence, tenacity, cunning and will.
You have the ability and tenacity to complete the toughest task in style. The Sun
In the stiffly rugged heaviness of the shoes there is the accumulated tenacity of the slow trudge through the far-spreading and ever-uniform furrows of the field swept by a raw wind.
The gliadin, a sort of plant gelatin, is the material which binds the flour particles together to form the dough, thus giving it tenacity and adhesiveness; and the glutenin is the material to which the gliadin adheres. Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value
Vivi couldn't see how anything could go wrong, and never thought of the long-term tenacity of the Director, who was already pondering wearisome sporadic whorl-checks of white-starred bays for years to come. The Elvis Latte
They competed with skill and tenacity.
Talent, hard work and sheer tenacity are all crucial to career success.
The swirl of conversation takes us to the legendary Aussie tenacity that he himself used to personify on the cricket field.
That the pioneers could hang on at all is monumental testimony to the tenacity of the human will.
But neither they nor their officers lack courage or tenacity under fire. Times, Sunday Times
The discipline and tenacity of Porto's defence tonight, and their capacity for quick, incisive breaks, recalled Clough's Forest teams at their best.
Her success is down to application, skill and tenacity, certainly not her figure. Times, Sunday Times
You have the skills and tenacity to get all the information you need to progress home plans. The Sun
And yet even with nothing but a future looming with gloomy forebodings, they repopulated the barren wasteland of space, bracing for the worst, testing the extents of their tenacity and ingenuity.
Most biographers have attributed her tenacity and audaciousness to the competitive, mercurial nature of an acting career in New York and Hollywood.
I have known Jenni for some years and she has always impressed me with her honesty, her tenacity, her cheerful, loving and caring nature.
But I wish before passing from this part of my subject, briefly to examine the curious tenacity with which the belief in this legendary literature was once held, and to show that it was not relinquished until a more critical standard of historic belief was adopted, and scientific investigation took the place of uninquiring and passive credulity. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
I was astonished to learn that throughout their life they have lived on the margins of the society, most of them unmarried or dumped due to infecundity, but they demonstrated far more tenacity and courage than any other sufferers.
"Now, you try," they were bid, and they would obey innocently, unaware of the carnal tenacity of their test subject.
He pursued this aim with tenacity and political skill. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
This is especially important for those valuable minerals which exhibit a brittle to very brittle tenacity, such as cassiterite, sphalerite and the tungsten minerals scheelite and wolframite. Chapter 20
You have the ability and tenacity to learn new skills and pass tough tests. The Sun
He demonstrated gutsiness and tenacity in every stroke he played. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, his serial attacks on certain subjects, be they flowering trees or allegories of encroaching blindness, suggest a bullheaded tenacity.
Those pats of gum became quite crusty as his innings of unhelmeted, forward-defensive tenacity tended not to be short. Times, Sunday Times
Her tenacity, her fight for life, surprised even the doctors.
They made it back with a combination of bravery, tenacity and good fortune.
The tenacity is welcomed, Rob ... your passion for what you believe in always makes for a more lively and interesting discussion. Not so fast
His tenacity has seen him through some tough bouts.
He was a skiver, and a thief, though when his back was against the wall there could be no doubt about his tenacity as a soldier. THE OPEN DOOR
So I will be relying on sheer tenacity and determination to get me through. The Sun
You need that tenacity to keep going. Times, Sunday Times
Its tenacity is a function of its pragmatism: this is a movement that is based on action, not talk. The Revolution Wasn’t Televised « Gerry Canavan
Around this time of year, my grandmother used to go out into her garden and denude her tomato plants with the tenacity of locusts: big or small, ripe or not.
Imagine the tenacity, the motor skills, the sheer reptile cunning involved.
Chemists tell us that certain substances in the act of formation, which they call nascent substances, are extraordinarily active and potent, and it may be that ice in the same state has a special tenacity of texture which belongs to that state alone. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska
The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.
The tenacity describes the fracturing behavior (as opposed to cleavage or scratch (abrasive) hardness) of the mineral, and decisively governs the behavior of a mineral during comminution. Chapter 20
Great tenacity from Grant which saw him rob Devenney of the ball set up a point for Mickey Linden and Down kept their noses in front.
The Government must have the courage and tenacity to follow through his thinking and his proposals. Times, Sunday Times
The family sagas in this vast canvas are of scarcely believable tenacity and endurance. Times, Sunday Times
He has good strength but needs quickness, tenacity and stamina.
Education and knowledge do not necessarily guarantee success - without goal-commitment, tenacity and hard work. Dr T.P.Chia
She succeeded by virtue of her tenacity rather than her talent.
Harding commenced by manufacturing a drawplate, that is to say, a plate of steel, pierced with conical holes of different sizes, which would successively bring the wire to the wished-for tenacity. The Mysterious Island
He said: 'We have shown strength and tenacity. The Sun
From 1981 to 1997, no one played with as much tenacity and dogged determination as Mullen.
In the stiffly rugged heaviness of the shoes there is the accumulated tenacity of the slow trudge through the far-spreading and ever-uniform furrows of the field swept by a raw wind.
Forest's home form is calculable proof of the tenacity instilled in them by Davies – they have lost only once at home since September 2009, albeit in the play-off semi-final with Blackpool – and they will face few more rigorous assignments than this in the weeks ahead. Robert Earnshaw spurs Nottingham Forest with goal that beat Cardiff
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Education and knowledge do not necessarily guarantee success - without goal-commitment, tenacity and hard work. Dr T.P.Chia
A good example: Bruce Anderson, the 70-year-old owner and editor of the Anderson Valley Advertiser the name repetition is just a coincidence, routinely takes on the powers that be in Northern California's pot-growing paradise of Mendocino County, and he does so with pitbull tenacity, exposing official abuse and garden-variety idiocy with equal relish. The Reporter Next Door
They come with the spring of life, root deep into the heart, and cling with irradicable tenacity through life. The Memories of Fifty Years
The one quality that they all shared, in the end, was stickability - the determination to cling to office with the tenacity of barnacles clinging to a crumbling wreck.
His tenacity, patience, humanity, shrewdness in personal dealings, and unblinking focus on essentials more than offset his inefficient, unbusinesslike ways.
It is only their tenacity that has brought about eventual justice.
Their pasty faces - the result of long periods underground - belie their extraordinary strength and tenacity.
The most powerful sign in the Chinese zodiac, the dragon symbolizes intelligence, wealth and tenacity.
To stay close to the top shows skill and tenacity. Times, Sunday Times
Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
I look for examples of where they have shown boundless tenacity. Times, Sunday Times
Investigative journalists are probing with impressive tenacity. Times, Sunday Times
The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.
A lot of farmers, he believes, would have given up, but sheer tenacity and economic need kept him going.

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