Sentences with phrase «by tenacious»

The curiosity of a growing group of researchers has been piqued by the tenacious temperature divide that has separated East from West over the past two winters as a wild zigzag of the jet stream has brought repeated bouts of Arctic air and snow to the East and kept the drought - plagued West baking under a record - breaking dome of heat.

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An energy shield can be constructed around your valuable buildings, but it can also be swiftly destroyed by a tenacious hawk pilot.

One staffer noted, «The Audi allows a lot of lateral movement followed by tenacious grip — even on bad surfaces.

He makes a new friend, albeit begrudgingly, in Elliot (Kutcher, A Lot Like Love), a high - spirited deer trying to escape the firing end of a shotgun held by tenacious game hunter named Shaw (Sinise, The Forgotten).

Always accompanied by a tenacious Boston terrier, his co-star in all situations, George bumps into an aspiring young actress named Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo) while leaving a packed theater premiere.

Followed by tenacious Special Agent Lorenzo Zoil (Bateman) and incompetent Agents O'Reilly (Lo Truglio) and Haggard (Hader), Paul bumps into Graeme (Pegg) and Clive (Frost)-- two British comic - book geeks touring UFO sighting hotspots.

He's also not above twisting, and sometimes breaking the law in order to get the big payoff, but he's resourceful enough to never get caught, either by the tenacious Interpol agent Jack Valentine (Hawke, Assault on Precinct 13), or his blissfully ignorant wife, Ava (Moynahan, I Robot).

He also meets his four uncles (Mendelsohn, Edgerton, Ford and Stapleton), a criminal gang that's being hunted by a tenacious detective (Pearce).

Richie looks like he'll be sitting pretty until he's approached by a tenacious FBI agent named Shavers (Mackie, Gangster Squad) looking to take Block down.

Now, as Mr. Brooks is pursued by tenacious detective Tracy Atwood (Moore) and forced to bend to the will of an opportunistic bystander, the killer who was once able to keep his murderous alter ego (Hurt) in check finds his control steadily slipping.

A prime example is cited in the chapter on Liam Fox, whose troubles were seized on by the tenacious Labour backbencher John Mann.

Easy - to - read, rhythmic text about a group of farm animals, led by a tenacious duck, who play a noisy game together.

It was followed by that tenacious 2 - 1 victory at the Etihad Stadium.

But all that changed Sunday thanks to sound pit strategy by crew chief Steve Letarte accompanied by a tenacious charge by Earnhardt from fifth to first over the final seven laps.

By contrast, fixed - time» is an attitude of lowered expectations and acquiescence in the face of less favorable conditions, but not necessarily to the absolutizing of the past by tenacious retention of its attributes.

Not exact matches

And by being in the game long enough — if you're lucky, smart, and tenacious — you might just see that traffic and revenue arc up.

«We can all benefit by cultivating a grand ambition, a goal that is big enough to stretch our vision beyond our current horizon and important enough that it fuels our tenacious effort.»

Jessica is a tenacious and independent spirit; she built her business by sheer force of will.

Understanding that people who begin by storming Bastilles usually end up building their own (as one Polish dissident said), the new freedom fighters inspired by John Paul II deployed weapons that communist brutality could not match: truth, national memory, tenacious organizing, and personal resilience.

Since these «mixed» ventures may not always be the churches» most direct or effective way of fulfilling their central function of explaining the ultimate meaning of life to their adherents — and certainly not if muffled by the requirements of public fisc — perhaps churches should be less eager to enter into what can at best be but a very unequal partnership with the public, and less tenacious in clinging to «mixed» institutions rather than letting them spin off to nonsectarian auspices.

So each doctrinal crisis, St. Vincent tells us, is a chance to renew our love for Our Lord: «If the authors of heresies are not immediately rooted up by God... [it is] that it may be apparent of each individual, how tenacious and faithful and steadfast he is in his love of the Catholic faith.»

J.J. Barea is tenacious, but he annoys teammates by forcing things and looking for calls.

It sounds an obvious thing to say, but Gabriel looks like he loves defending by being quick across the ground and tenacious in the tackle.

In midfield there was a tenacious box - to - box display by Hojbjerg, who has undergone something of a renaissance in recent weeks and showed far more clarity than his counterparts in blue.

To some extent, this arrangement could be considered an echo of the extremely fluid forward line that fired the club to the 2008 Champions League title, with Cristiano Ronaldo replaced by Martial, Rashford becoming the new Wayne Rooney and Lukaku as Carlos Tevez — the dynamic, tenacious and tactically astute match - winner.

I dug the big garden by hand, a foot deep all around to eradicate tenacious bracken ferns and other weeds, which was tedious but very thorough.

Only a little over 5 feet tall, and ever so gentle by nature, she was tenacious in promoting breastfeeding; she showed that entrusting the baby to the mother saves lives, she showed the world that hospital routines can be changed, dramatically and relatively suddenly.

Pick also says that social conservatives» tenacious commitment to discrimination was only bolstered by her and her colleagues» involvement.

Anyone who has ever worked with her knows that her attention to detail and tenacious nature means that nothing will get by her.

The Met Police has justifiably been heavily criticised for the way that they handled the initial investigations into Stephen's death, but the tenacious and detailed forensic work carried out by the police in this case deserves a great deal of praise.

In a statement obtained by SoP, Business Council Heather Briccetti called McGrath «a hard worker with a tenacious commitment to his neighbors and his family.»

Zika virus, which is sweeping through the Americas, is transmitted primarily by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which the U.N. health body has described as an «opportunistic and tenacious menace».

Weintraub deftly weaves top - notch research and reporting on this malevolent infection, caused by the bite of a common deer tick, with the personal narrative of a family's encounters with ignorance and bias while fighting a tenacious, disabling illness.

This unusual battery was invented more than 20 years ago by Maria Skyllas - Kazacos, a tenacious professor of electrochemistry at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Simulations by Nora de Leeuw of University College London and colleagues suggest that the dust grains from which Earth formed had such a tenacious grip on water that they could have held onto the molecules despite the high temperatures.

By Tuesday evening on February 6, roughly 12,000 sorters had run through all 560,000 satellite and ER - 2 images, according to a post by Vogels on the Tenacious Search blog, which was established to coordinate the search efforBy Tuesday evening on February 6, roughly 12,000 sorters had run through all 560,000 satellite and ER - 2 images, according to a post by Vogels on the Tenacious Search blog, which was established to coordinate the search efforby Vogels on the Tenacious Search blog, which was established to coordinate the search effort.

The film includes some truly memorable scenes, highlighted by a particularly tenacious shark with a vertical leap that would put Spud Webb to shame and a bomb on the waterfront with no place to explode (nuns, infants and lovebirds beware!).

Renowned for her tenacious journalism, the BBC broadcaster dealt with her cancer treatment by documenting every moment

Hong Kong Superstar Andy Lau plays a charismatic thief pursued by French icon Jean Reno as a tenacious detective in this globetrotting caper film.

(November 13, 2017)-- Hong Kong Superstar Andy Lau (House of Flying Daggers, Internal Affairs) as a charismatic thief is pursued by French icon Jean Reno (Leon: The Professional, The Da Vinci Code, Mission Impossible) as a tenacious detective in the globetrotting caper film THE ADVENTURERS, stealing onto on digital December 5 and on Blu - ray ™ Combo Pack January 2 from Well Go USA Entertainment.

Though the fearless and tenacious Michel, aided by a task force of elite cops, will stop at nothing ---- including boldly orchestrated drug raids, devastating arrests, and exacting interrogations ---- to ensure the crime ring's demise, Zampa's «La French» always seems one step ahead.

Peter Morgan's straightforward and efficient script paints Lauda (as played by Daniel Brühl) as cool and tenacious, as he uses his money, drive, and acumen to ascend the ranks, while the playboy Hunt (Chris Hemsworth from the Thor franchise) follows in pursuit both literally and figuratively.

Oliver Litondo (Maruge)(Photo: Kerry Brown) Oliver Litondo who plays the tenacious, 83 - year - old Maruge in the award - winning movie, The First Grader, which is co-produced by Videovision Entertainment, won the Best Actor Award from the Black Film Critics Circle it was announced last night.

Based on a book by Ranulph Fiennes, Killer Elite follows retired special forces soldier Danny Bryce (Jason Statham) as he reluctantly agrees to kill three assassins after his mentor (Robert DeNiro's Hunter) is kidnapped by a ruthless sheik - with the film subsequently revolving around Danny's ongoing efforts at both completing his mission and avoiding the advances of an increasingly tenacious former operative (Clive Owen's Spike Logan).

By the end of this hilarious and fascinating movie, you will respect Tonya Harding and maybe even root for her, thanks to Rogers» tongue - in - cheek writing and Robbie's tenacious turn as the redneck figure skater turned American icon.

January 13, 2012 marked the first annual Hilarity for Charity Variety Show, held at Vibiana in downtown Los Angeles.The event raised $ 300,000 and included performances by Judd Apatow, Aziz Ansari, Paul D., Bruno Mars, Patton Oswalt and Tenacious D.

With cameos from Pete Postlethwaite (as Irish mob boss Fergie «The Florist») and Mad Men's Jon Hamm (unencumbered by any discernible personality as tenacious FBI agent Adam Frawley) helping to raise the stakes, The Town has all the makings of a solid procedural.

Peter Morgan's straightforward and efficient script paints Lauda (as played by Daniel Brühl) as cool and tenacious, as he uses...

In the film, gangster Big Boy Caprice (Pacino, Sea of Love) trying to get a conglomerate of mob bosses to join forces and own the town before the tenacious police, headed by the seemingly incorruptible Dick Tracy (Beatty), snuff them out.