Even as the epidemic has subsided and receives far less attention, women like Maria are testament to its long reach and tenacious hold.

Life had a tenacious hold, leaving only an occasional peninsula or mountain range gray and bone.

For fifteen years the western powers maintained a tenacious hold on West Berlin under periodic harassment of the Soviets.

The characteristic of tenacious hold on life of A. koraiensis makes it possible for massive breeding.

Reflecting a widely held frustration with Mr. Hussein's tenacious hold on power, 58 percent said the bombing should continue until he was toppled.

His final collection of poems nakedly chronicles his losing battle with cancer and celebrates his tenacious hold on the world he was leaving.

The cigar has long had a tenacious hold on the business culture.

Its tenacious hold on the public imagination suggests a power that transcends most critics' dismissals of the piece as naive and overwrought.

Ieyasu's recovery after a two hour nap was a testimony to his tenacious hold on life.

They have a tenacious hold on life which mere physical disability will not quench.