However, as the great Lord Acton put it, the function of the good historian is "to do the best he can for the other side, and to avoid
pertinacity or emphasis on his." (44) Should the poor nations follow the examples of Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, which seem to have successfully "plugged in to the world grid of industrial powerhouses," (45) or should they adopt the system of government the western democracies practice?
Lizzie who attends all ships with the
pertinacity of a seagull who wears a wrist-watch parts his hair in the middle plays the piano from nine to eleven on every vessel that shows her nose by the wharf side when he does not do that he adds up figures on a stool in the counting house and walks in the manner of a miss in a hobble skirt II.
But overall, Lincoln was correct when he remarked, "It is the dogged
pertinacity of Grant that wins."
Bridges seems to acknowledge this fact, as she argues that in both cases, poor women are "completely exposed to state power." (107) In the end, whether one accepts the strong or moderate claim may be immaterial, because in either instance, the state has compromised its legitimacy by imposing insurmountably severe and burdensome constraints on reproductive health and rights such that it would require the artistry of a magician or
pertinacity of an elite athlete to overcome.
Woolf's narrator references absent photographs of "dead bodies and ruined houses," which are images from the Spanish Civil War, sent by the Spanish government "with patient
pertinacity about twice a week" to alert British supporters to the violence of the fascists (14).
1966)); see also Tate, 359 F.2d at 253 (setting out procedure designed to "assure that no appointed counsel is permitted to withdraw from an appeal unless he has satisfied the court that after thorough investigation of the facts of the case and research of all legal issues involved he has discovered no non-frivolous issue on which an appeal might be argued." and asserting that "[t]he fact that the chances of prevailing are slim is not a reason for withdrawal, but is rather a summons to conscientious counsel to devote his professional skill and
pertinacity to the most effective presentation of which he is capable"); Johnson, 360 F.2d at 844-45 (indicating that counsel should "file a supporting memorandum analyzing the case legally, citing record references to the transcript...
Cohesive public health and medical care infrastructures would have evolved anyway as the twentieth century developed, but the actual origin of the path depended on contingency (hurricane San Ciriaco; the presence of Ashford, and later King, in Ponce); hard work (Ashford's discovery and
pertinacity; King's interest in research and the organization of mass clinics, and later the Institute of Tropical Medicine); and undoubtedly, the interest of PHS officers in administratively (Glennan) and scientifically (King) addressing the health problems they found in Puerto Rico.
He added that this 'has been so fully established by experience, that I am surprised at the
pertinacity with which theoretical writers continue to refuse their assent to it' (Malthus 1989b, II, 281).
The adventitiousness of fame has contributed to an anti-work ethic that consoles us for our failures, our lack of success, of material progress despite the
pertinacity of our efforts, inevitably sabotaged by the principle that wastrels win and those of us with gumption and intelligence are doomed to toil away our lives at grunt jobs we detest.
Article 26 states that citizens must "uphold righteousness as well as good values and discipline, be responsible for citizens' duties, be accountable to society and the people, and be in harmony,
pertinacity and self-reliance".
A third virtue is
pertinacity. Mere flashes of will are not enough.
But Modi is in no position to perceive this threat because of inexorable
pertinacity.
I well remember that suggestions arising from this ballad led us into a train of thought wherein there became manifest an opinion of Usher's which I mention not so much on account of its novelty, (for other men have thought thus,) as on account of the
pertinacity with which he maintained it.
Unbelievably, when he woke they were still marching past and had been "for 26 hours, a grey army rumbling by with the mystery of fog and the
pertinacity of a steam roller."
