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Ha'aretz said it understood why some Israelis felt they owed the Serbs a debt of gratitude for their tenacious opposition to the Nazis during World War II, but added: "A much-persecuted nation, well versed in pogroms, cannot stand on the side, watching an institutionalized process of exterminating civilians based on religion and ethnicity.
But the tenacious Papandréou was re-elected in 1994.
Many crimes are invariably referred to by initials, some of which belong to offences that have been super-seded--a good example of jargon's proving more tenacious of life than the things from which it arises.
However, the Egyptians are tenacious shopkeepers and you will have to have a will of steel and sense of humor to ignore their sales pitches.
(Those malevolent imps are tenacious and bothersome: Robert S. McNamara, the former secretary of defense, was once seen by the Washington Post trying to "wriggle loose from his personal demons."