Sentences with phrase «cling tenaciously»

Where else can the overall office vacancy rate cling tenaciously to the 10 % level while there is about 5 million sq. ft. of office space under construction or can industry developers add 15 million sq. ft. in one year...

Still, some nonacademic employers cling tenaciously to their preconceived notions about what Ph.D. scientists can't do.

Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye That you cling tenaciously to life?

He has clung tenaciously to the dream that someday his company, which has been banned in China since 2009, will be allowed to compete again there.

Nevertheless, scholars and politicians in East Asia have clung tenaciously to this claim concerning prerequisites (Perry, 1994, points out this problem).

And then, suddenly, there it was, clinging tenaciously to the glass walls of eighteen - year - old William Henry Perkin's test tubes, without a sea snail in sight.

The wide track combined with low - profile Avons means the AeroMax clings tenaciously to the tarmac, and the chassis beneath you stays flat even as you push harder and harder and the g - forces build.

Ride: It runs straight and smooth on the highway and clings tenaciously to curves.

In a career spanning 35 years, Ms. Rosler, whose disdain for the normal rites of passage from galleries to collectors to museums struck many as indeed criminal, has clung tenaciously to a very personal art that refuses to separate aesthetics from politics.

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If there is one dogma to which high - minded lawyers cling more tenaciously than any other, it is that the legal profession ought to be above the «morals of the marketplace.»

Fire, the source of being: we cling so tenaciously to the illusion that fire comes forth from the depths of the earth and that its flames grow progressively brighter as it pours along the radiant furrows of life's tillage.

For decades, Hartshorne and Weiss have tenaciously clung to their definite convictions that metaphysics is the main business of philosophy, despite almost overwhelming opposition from the powerful camps of American logical positivism, linguistic analysis, and their allies.

Under siege by a hostile and intolerant host culture, the immigrants clung all the more tenaciously to one another and to the church, an institution that offered security in a strange and forbidding new world.

I understand that those are feelings which * you * think that * you * would experience if you stopped clinging so tenaciously to your fantasy.

If we sincerely trust that the promise of divine fidelity provides the ultimate context within which to live out our lives, we will not feel obliged to cling too tenaciously to immediate social arrangements in order to find the approval we desire.

In the meantime, those of us who tenaciously clung to our pitiful belief in Jesus as God and Savior were systematically forced out of the church.

Of all the NT writers he clings most tenaciously to the historical Jesus, that which «we have heard, we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and touched with our hands» (1:1, 2).

«Scolding, nagging, or punishing your toddler for the behavior won't get her to give it up and may even make her cling to it more tenaciously.

There's plenty of bite on turn - in, too, the Macan locking tenaciously onto your chosen line and clinging on gamely all the way to the exit.

Routine handling: In the limited number of well - policed corners I put into Milano's path, it clung to the pavement tenaciously with negligible body roll and no squawling of its Pirelli radials.

You may capture the intense tangerine ray reflected over water beside Lembongan, a favorite land where your heart is probably left behind, clinging on tenaciously to the sweet service bestowed by Bali Hai Beach Club Cruise for now and forever more.

Dark Souls II offers a sullen environment, one that tenaciously clings to life despite being long overdue for death — and you just happen to be a grim reaper with time on your hands.

Though even in presence, faint as fading dreams with a few familiar, recurring signs clinging to memory, Shura Chernozatonskaya's images tenaciously linger.

There clings subtly and tenaciously to many of his paintings an atmosphere of indolent voluptuousness which also points to his romantic sensibility.

«Tenaciously clinging to a belief despite contrary evidence can be a mistake, but so can prematurely discarding a belief at the first encounter with contrary evidence.

As I continue to work the seam between clients and law firms, I am struck and frustrated by how tenaciously lawyers cling to the fiction that they are unique and that everything they do is unique.