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Sarat argued that cases like Williams' push the country closer toward one day ending the death penalty, despite some states "tenaciously clinging" to it.

“And we should never forget, and those that guard our freedoms, that we should hang on to them very tenaciously and be very careful about some do-gooder that thinks that our safety is more important than our freedom. Because freedom is awful difficult to obtain, and it’s even more difficult to regain it once it’s lost.”

But Fleischmann tenaciously hung on.

While it’s not unusual for device or drug companies to tenaciously guard their intellectual property and competitive edge, the news this month is secrecy on a whole other scale, according to a consensus of neuroscientists and bioethicists.

Osborne had taken just one shot to that point as the Cougars worked tenaciously to deny the All-Pac-12 guard the ball.