(a.) Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose, or design, with obstinacy; perversely persistent; obstinate; as, pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar.
(a.) Resolute; persevering; constant; steady.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the Nazi regime, the official "health command" policy monitored by the Nazi party promoted home delivery under midwife supervision, both by pertinacious propaganda and partly also by decrees and ordinances.
Unremitting
Definition:
(a.) Not remitting; incessant; continued; persevering; as, unremitting exertions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five of the children presented an "aplastic crisis," for example, a sudden decrease in hemoglobin concentration associated with absence of reticulocytes in the peripheral blood, and four were admitted with unremitting severe pain because of a "vaso-occlusive crisis."
(2) Business rates: pressure grows for total rethink on controversial tax Read more Meanwhile the downwards press on aggregate council funding is unremitting.
(3) The unremitting assault on Aleppo by Russian and Syrian forces over recent days is certainly testament to that.” In a week of what residents have described as the worst airstrike campaign since the start of the civil war in Syria , forces loyal to Assad have begun the early stages of a ground offensive aimed at reclaiming eastern Aleppo, which has been under opposition control since 2012.
(4) Although the unremitting deterioration in mental retardation and hemiparesis was not effectively prevented by the surgery possibly because the timing of surgery was delayed in one case, the surgery not only stopped the frequent medically-intractable seizures, but also dramatically prevented the psychomotor deterioration in the other case.
(5) In a day of unremitting gloom, and yet more market turbulence, the Greek government also stood on the precipice of collapse, risking an uncontrolled default, as the government of George Papandreou faced a late-night confidence vote in parliament.
(6) "The background climate in this county has become … unremittingly hostile.
(7) Over-all, 80% of the patients experienced at least 1 complication, chief among which were pyocystis (67%), hemorrhage (23%), severe pain (13%), and unremitting feelings of incomplete emptying and spasm (17%).
(8) Epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV) is a rare disease characterized by the early onset and unremitting progression of wart-like lesions and frequent association of cutaneous carcinomas.
(9) Across the Pacific, the subtle, unremitting first impacts of the climate crisis are already strangling lives.
(10) Gove and his team are more bullish, and Allen describes an unremittingly positive dossier of evidence that the coalition recently published as "deliberately selective".
(11) In an effort to minimize the nutritional complications that follow resection of the pancreas for severe chronic pancreatitis, the authors have performed a duodenum-preserving total pancreatectomy in eight patients for severe unremitting pain requiring large doses of opiate analgesia.
(12) Personal experience, first heavily employed by male writers, is now a major part of the depoliticised end of women's writing and occurs on an unremitting basis as the "me" in "media" colonises ever larger continents of journalism.
(13) In the event of advancing, unremitting infection involving the foot, ankle guillotine amputation may be a life-saving technique.
(14) The potential for the sudden inadvertent application of a high, unremitting pressure support breath or continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) clearly exists with some ventilators and is illustrated in two cases.
(15) Pernicious anaemia patients have unremitting hypergastrinaemia throughout the 24 hours.
(16) These data show that ongoing neurologic dysfunction can be induced in the Lewis rat by a GP-BP specific T-lymphocyte line; they suggest that unremitting clinical signs can persist in the absence both of inflammatory lesions in the CNS and of pronounced immunologic responsiveness to the encephalitogenic determinant of GP-BP.
(17) After 90 minutes of unremitting toil, perspiration and scant regard for loftier reputations, blame was starting to be apportioned.
(18) That of course is not how it looks in Pyongyang, which sees broken promises and unremitting hostility.
(19) The nastiest, hardest and most disturbing scenes you'll see this year are probably those that open Zero Dark Thirty , Kathryn Bigelow's dogged and unremittingly tense account of the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden.
(20) However, this increase did not equal control value, and moreover both remitted and unremitted patients presented a similar change in their alpha 2-adrenoceptor-mediated adenylate cyclase inhibition.