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The tenacious d ' Urville on arrival at Constantinople showed the sketches he had made to the French ambassador, the Marquis de Rivière, who sent his secretary in a French Navy vessel to buy it for France.
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Another attack was mounted on 15 July but made no ground against tenacious resistance.
Robert Graves popularised the triad of " Maiden " ( or " Virgin "), " Mother " and " Crone ", and while this idea did not rest on sound scholarship, his poetic inspiration has gained a tenacious hold.
In 1874, an Australian newspaper wrote: " We in Australia did not take kindly to W. G .. For so big a man, he is surprisingly tenacious on very small points.
For fifteen years the western powers maintained a tenacious hold on West Berlin under periodic harassment of the Soviets.
At the elevated temperature and pressure conditions chemically reactive constituents of the lubricant react with the contact surface forming a highly resistant tenacious layer, or film on the moving solid surfaces ( boundary film ) which is capable of supporting the load and major wear or breakdown is avoided.
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 American 20th Century Fox film based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British maid, who became a missionary in China during the tumultuous years leading up to World War II.
Alice, with a good-natured openness that cloaks a tenacious, committed spirit, finds herself on a journey that constantly tests her patience and compassion.
These two Offices proved more tenacious than the others, going on to help form what became the Inland Revenue.
Humphrys has a reputation of being a tenacious and forthright interviewer ; occasionally politicians have been very critical of his style after being subjected to a tough interview on live radio.
Her tenacious nine-year campaign on behalf of the Music Center produced more than $ 19 million in private donations ” noted Albert Greenstein in 1999.
Hungerford made him governor of Wardour Castle in 1643, but had to surrender to the Royalists after a tenacious three-month defence on 18 March 1644.
Uncharismatic but tenacious, Ovando was biding his time, counting on the fact that he would be the logical choice to run for elections once Barrientos ' term ended in 1970, perhaps with some electoral " help " from the outgoing administration.
It argues for the need for well-drawn heroines, and for unrepentant villainesses: " To be tenacious in evil is the duty of every villain ... Let her hate the heroine wholeheartedly, and refuse, yes, even on the last page, to take her hand in forgiveness ".
Particularly tenacious of her rank, she was prepared to spend the whole day from morning until night in full dress without respite or fatigue, implacably imposing the same burden on all her entourage, and was ruled by etiquette in the most intimate details of her domestic life.
Although details on its organisation were not made clear at the time, the General Security Directorate's designated mission was to " infiltrate and annihilate Iraq's tenacious insurgency ".
Robert Graves popularized the triad of " Maiden " ( or " Virgin "), " Mother " and " Crone ", and while this idea did not rest on sound scholarship, his poetic inspiration has gained a tenacious hold.
Taft was generally given credit for being more tenacious than the soft-spoken Nicol in his performance in the legislature during the lead-up to the 2004 election, especially on issues such as public auto insurance, public accounts, and government contracts.
In part because of his tenacious work on the Haitian Centers Council case, Koh was nominated by President Clinton to become Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor on September 10, 1998, and confirmed unanimously by the Senate on October 21, 1998.
As a rookie, Pierce quickly earned a place in the Revolution starting lineup with his tenacious defending, and finished the season second on the team in minutes played, having started in 29 of the team's 32 games.
Klein regarded himself as a shrewd and tenacious businessman, exampled by him having a modified Bible quote on his desk, reading: " Though I walk in the shadow of the valley of evil, I have no fear, as I am the biggest bastard in the valley.
He was a fan favorite during his days playing for the Toronto Raptors due to his tenacious efforts on the court.
* 17 April: The 1BF assault against Berlin is stalled by tenacious German resistance on the Seelow Heights, 3 km west of the Oder, with great losses of troops and tanks for the Soviets.
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Heth's decision to deploy his two brigades before the arrival of the rest of his division was an error as well ; they were repulsed in hard fighting against a elite division of the Army of the Potomac's I Corps, including the famously tenacious Iron Brigade.
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For example, at the Battle of Kursk the Red Army employed a combination of defense in great depth, extensive minefields, and tenacious defense of breakthrough shoulders.
On 29 February, the German attack was slowed down at the village of Douaumont by heavy snowfall and a tenacious defence by the French 33rd Infantry Regiment which had been commanded by Pétain himself in the years prior to the war.
They are sturdy, tough, and tenacious, measuring between at the withers, and weigh.
The agricultural journalist William Cobbett noted of Hemel Hempstead in 1822 that ".. the land along here is very fine: a red tenacious flinty loam upon a bed of chalk at a yard or two beneath, which, in my opinion, is the very best corn land that we have in England.
At the same time, Peiper's forces were able to breakout south, suffering from bitter fighting against a tenacious Soviet defense, and link up with the division's left wing at the Volchansk and Chuhuiv road junction.
The AKC describes them as being single minded, tenacious and courageous when at work, while at home they can be exuberant, playful and affectionate.
He was grasping, or at least tenacious of his rights in money matters, and was often brought into conflict with courtiers who coveted episcopal lands.
* Leah Price ( 14 at start of the novel ) – Adah's tomboyish twin ; intelligent, self-confident, competitive, tenacious and compassionate.
Souness's tenacious style began to garner increasing acclaim during his time at Middlesbrough.
Ever tenacious, Field and Leiter had a new temporary store opened by the end of the month at a lakefront exposition hall they leased from the city, located at what is now the site of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Pembridge had a good first two seasons at Everton, with his tenacious approach and thrusting runs from deep establishing the Welshman as an integral part of Everton's squad, thus securing him an excellent rapport with the Goodison Park faithful.
They are silent but tenacious hunters and alert only when they have the prey at bay.
He said of the Russians, "... in defense the Imperial Russian Army was stubborn and tenacious and they were masters at constructing defensive positions with great speed.
Eventually firing 11 more torpedoes at the fugitive ship for two hits and four circular runs-and then driven off by defensive gunfire from the tenacious Japanese gunners-Dealey broke off the engagement and returned to Pearl Harbor because of lack of torpedoes.
He proved to be an instant hero at Elland Road with his tenacious style and ball winning play.
Described by Gottfried Klingemann as a ' clear-thinking and just man with an energetic and tenacious character ', Deisenhofer quickly climbed his way through the ranks, holding various low level command positions, including service with the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler in 1934 and at the KZ Dachau in 1935.
After his first year at the University, won by his tenacious inflexibility and idealism, Braga was confronted by the literary conflicts between traditionalists and modernists:
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But Urraca was tenacious of her right as queen regnant and had not learnt chastity in the polygamous household of her father.
By December the Allies ' progress had slowed facing tenacious German resistance and the difficult geography of the Italian Peninsula.
Whatever the truth of the first forty years of his life, he had certainly been a close and accurate observer, and had made himself acquainted with many curious and little-known phenomena, which he had stored up in a most tenacious memory.
He had a tenacious memory, and could retain every point in his opponent's argument.
The team, dubbed The Untouchables by the local press because they were unscored upon for the first half of the season, had few stars but a solid and tenacious body of players.
Weak in health and feeble in frame, Maximilian had high ambitions both for himself and his duchy, and was tenacious and resourceful in prosecuting his designs.
* " As senator, a tenacious Proxmire had a good run "— The Boston Globe
* 2009: David Barstow of The New York Times, for his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended.
By his outstanding valor, skilled tactics, and tenacious perseverance in the face of overwhelming odds, 1st Lt. Lummus had inspired his stouthearted marines to continue the relentless drive northward, thereby contributing materially to the success of his regimental mission.
However, he had once again impressed with his tenacious work-rate.
Consequently, these returned Jews, instead of being liberalized by their residence abroad, were more tenacious of Judaism and more bitter against Stephen than those who had never left Judaea.
Most of the Tule Lake renunciants later had their citizenship restored, largely through the heroic and tenacious efforts of civil rights attorney Wayne M. Collins.
They are incredibly tenacious, and once they had a scent they would track it for days, and that if one were hurt or killed by the target they were tracking, they would track that target forever.
Her memory of tangible facts was very tenacious, but it had no grasp of abstractions, and it was never apparent that she comprehended the idea of a Deity.
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