tenaciously

tenacious | American Dictionary

tenacious
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/təˈneɪ·ʃəs/
unwilling to accept defeat or stop doing or having something:
Seles is a tenacious opponent – she never gives in.

tenacity

noun[ U ]us/təˈnæs·ɪ·t̬i/
They cling with admirable tenacity to their traditions.

Examples of tenacious

tenacious
The steep learning curve is daunting, and even experienced developers find that modifying existing passes is difficult and often introduces subtle and tenacious bugs.
Mapping out the relations between law and literature requires a meticulous approach for these relations are infinitely complex, elusive yet tenacious.
However, design disputes, political rivalries and the tenacious resistance of local elites undermined the radical transformation proposed.
Yet, a counter narrative surfaced regularly, one where women emerged as good planners, tenacious opponents and effective negotiators.
On average, parents who decide to adopt internationally are highly educated, dedicated to their children, and tenacious.
However, it seems that the ideology of inner reference proved a tenacious institutional pull.
None but the most tenacious and specialized reader is going to scrutinize that crucial diagram (p. 45) on which the whole first chapter rests.
If the link between lagged and current voting is artefactual, it is an unusually tenacious artefact.
He told us one story that strongly showed how tenacious he was.
It takes some tenacious mining to wrest anything out of them.
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.
Koizumi has been tenacious in pushing forward structural reform, despite all the opposition to it.
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.
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.
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.
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