How To Use Assiduous In A Sentence

We have known a male mierkat so assiduous in feeding young that were quite unrelated to himself, taking to them every morsel of food given him, that we have been compelled to shut him up in a room alone when feeding him, to prevent his starving himself to death: the male mierkat thus exhibiting exactly those psychic qualities which are generally regarded as peculiarly feminine; the females, on the other hand, being far more pugnacious towards each other than are the males. Woman and Labour
This was comfortably the highest tally in 22 years of assiduous recording. Times, Sunday Times
The beautifully written catalogue based on her own assiduous research was the first of many. Times, Sunday Times
Andy Anson, 2018's chief executive, is described as assiduous about keeping the board informed. Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk
They moved with a heedlessness and dreamlike courage towards the doom they had so assiduously courted.

During her illness her relatives had called assiduously enough, though she would see none of them save us. The Virginians
They listened to the news assiduously, however, and channel-hopped from time to time. THE SCAR
What surprised many is how assiduously he stuck to the idea once it had become politically counter-productive. THE GUARDSMEN
It has been decades since other world leaders have courted a pope so assiduously.
I accept that Larry could have been more assiduous in his search.
The honors, determined chiefly by the marks given at the end of the term, being mainly the reward of a diligence rather stupid than otherwise, as a rule were regarded with great indifference, and, for the most part, fell to the men who "poled" most assiduously, and got the best marks for attention, diligence, and correct recitation of the set tasks. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I
The beautifully written catalogue based on her own assiduous research was the first of many. Times, Sunday Times
Accumulate all the possible circumstances which shall re-enforce the right motives; put yourself assiduously in conditions that encourage the new way; make engagements incompatible with the old; take a public pledge, if the case allows; in short, envelop your resolution with every aid you know. An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy
He delighted in the young and was assiduous in attendance at the Oxford Union, where he was senior librarian.
She fits the words in between small mouthfuls that she chews assiduously, her brown rice cud masticated to sweet grainy liquid before she swallows it down. A LITTLE BIT OF A GOOD THING • by elissa vann struth
But his assiduousness is strange, as if distracted from itself. Happy Easter.
After a decade or so of assiduous tweezering, the brow hairs will indeed be discouraged and will not grow back.
The first shop opened in 1993 and now there are three, which must sum up the quality of this assiduous cheesemonger.
It was a tribute to her assiduous political work. Times, Sunday Times
They labour assiduously for the benefit of future generations.
The manager has the right to expect that his workers will be careful and assiduous.
We have worked on economic policy assiduously for the last five years.
His spin doctors have been so assiduous in building images of him that the real man has remained invisible behind them.
He is assiduous in plying me with melba toast, and has the charm one always associates with a private homosexual.
There is no sterner or more assiduous newshawk to be found on the demanding beat than yours truly.
If they're useless but keep large numbers of outreach workers in gainful employment - they'll love them, call for more, and work assiduously at propagating a myth of 'success'. Archive 2005-05-15
He was taught privately, his father assiduously fostering his musical talents.
On the contrary, these qualities are considered signs of assiduousness and punctiliousness.
Other ministers are no less assiduous. Times, Sunday Times
Her fans copy her look as assiduously as they learn her dance routines. Times, Sunday Times
Buddy's gentleness was almost childlike, verging on the ridiculous -- his doting on dogs and little children, the love letters he had written to his dead wife Momi, his devotion to Stella's ashes and the green flash at sunset, his assiduous attention to his flowers. Beard
her assiduous attempts to learn French
If people have no intention of taking out fresh loans, they are less assiduous in paying off existing ones. Times, Sunday Times
But even in the midst of these minefields, assiduous efforts have been made to fashion a safe passageway.
Du Châtelet's mirror identifies her as the goddess of truth, while Voltaire sports a poet's laurel wreath as he assiduously transcribes the words of his female muse.
Labour has assiduously made capital from that little nugget ever since, even stencilling the phrase on its campaign cars to remind people.
Even young children worked assiduously for a reward.
Janet is neither "the most assiduous student ... nor the most naturally gifted" (p. 121). The Magicians by Lev Grossman: Questions
Enshrined and multiplied; here were the votive statuettes and busts presented by condolent friends, assiduous place-seekers, scared men who had once had words with the dead; commissioned by the best artists found at short notice, to comfort Alexander's grief. Funeral Games
The People was the most assiduous in digging the dirt.
Have you ever read something that assiduously avoids all passives and progressives?
He was assiduous in his attendance at Mass.
A somulent shantung shawl of sherbet snow scuttled staidly across the spacious stage onto which the shady stratosphere of heaven harked an assiduous ear.
Even a book he assiduously promoted on prehistoric archaeology sold in hundreds of thousands.
Modern men and women work assiduously at sites like Uxmal to uncover every clue.
They rejected their teachers' conventional ideas and academic art, yet spent years assiduously copying and assimilating the Old Masters.
When I first learned a few months ago that garbage trucks were backing up the driveway between these two buildings at unseemly hours, it was curious but could maybe be explained by PMUA worker assiduousness. Does the PMUA have a problem?
Did not Mr. Binny, the mild and genteel curate of the district chapel, which the family attended, call assiduously upon the widow, dandle the little boy on his knee, and offer to teach him Latin, to the anger of the elderly virgin, his sister, who kept house for him? Vanity Fair
But unless she cuts back her office hours, it is the jealous wannabes who will fill out the bar at the trendy nightspot, while she, as ever, assiduously works late into the night.
He was assiduous in his attendance at Mass.
The conscientious care and assiduous industry with which Herschel made his measurements of the diameter of the Georgium Sidus (now called Uranus), and his interesting observations of other planets, of double stars with their coloured light, of cometary and nebulous appearances, were truly remarkable; as may be seen by the various papers which he wrote at this time for the Royal Society. The Story of the Herschels
No Gernian cavalla officer, no matter how high his rank, would have allowed underlings to tend him as assiduously as Soldier's Boy's feeders did. Renegade's Magic
But in one of the more heroic efforts in tennis history, he set about - with characteristic assiduousness and determination - trying to acquire a grass-court game in order to win it.
Farrell is an assiduous researcher and has a thorough, if not overwhelming command of the primary sources and secondary material.
A penchant for flames ... war-watching and assiduousness! Excerpt from The Vicious Circulation of Dr Catastrope
He was employed as the studio's title designer and general factotum while assiduously learning about filmmaking.
Yet one day, while Hátszegi was in the drawing room of the countess, paying his court to her most assiduously, Vámhidy entered _sans gêne_; whereupon the countess hastily springing up from her _causeuse_ asked leave of the baron to withdraw for a moment and there and then conducted The Poor Plutocrats
Since joining the party on a promise of a junior ministerial post, he has assiduously courted his parliamentary colleagues and concentrated on building a support base among the membership.
Hence the second canard that was first assiduously pushed by HRW, which introduced the term internment camps to describe the centres in which civilians who escape from the LTTE into Government controlled territory are kept. Ministry of Defence - Sri Lanka (MOD)
The member is being a very assiduous local member.
Orpishurda, sitting next to Burnell, was assiduous in filling their glasses till a meniscus twinkled. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
So McCain assiduously is courting economic and social conservatives, some of them skeptics who remember his jibes from before. McCain firm on Iraq war despite cost to candidacy
The leaders of the tribe began the assiduous task of sending the entire clan under miles of glacial ice, silently hoping to avoid catastrophe.
And who are the best golfers, the most assiduous respecters of the rules and spirit of the game?
If people have no intention of taking out fresh loans, they are less assiduous in paying off existing ones. Times, Sunday Times
If people have no intention of taking out fresh loans, they are less assiduous in paying off existing ones. Times, Sunday Times
It was a tribute to her assiduous political work. Times, Sunday Times
I certainly wasn't an assiduous student. Times, Sunday Times
Apparently some famous violinist whose name escapes me wrote to his son (a violist): ‘You must practise with great assiduousness, since you do not wish to remain a violist for the whole of your life.’
We work assiduously for employees whose terms and conditions are often suffering. Times, Sunday Times
And this idea has been peddled by the intellectual elite in Britain for many years, more assiduously than anywhere else, to the extent that it is now taken for granted.
They labour assiduously for the benefit of future generations.
Still he contrived to obtain permission to carry him to the top of the Tower, on the plea that fresh air was essential to his health, and tended him so assiduously, that while the prisoner was partially restored, and could walk about, the strength of his custodier broke down. Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton
Those who are not satisfied with the synthetic proofs of the theory of evolution which are provided by comparative anatomy, embryology, paleontology, dysteleology, chorology, and classification, may try to refute the analytic proof given in my treatise on the sponge, the outcome of five years of assiduous study. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
He is an assiduous trainer and has needed to be to control a hearty appetite. Times, Sunday Times
We work assiduously for employees whose terms and conditions are often suffering. Times, Sunday Times
In October 2005, my man at Scotland Yard told me in how Sir Ian, even after Sir Gus O'Donnell, the cabinet secretary, warned leading civil servants not to regard their memoirs as an intrinsic part of their gold-plated redundancy packages, had been "assiduous" about keeping a diary. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
The early days of the Orchestra required assiduous fundraising efforts by its supporters, sometimes at considerable cost to themselves.
Now this King’s daughter loved the idol and was frequent in prostration to it and assiduous in its service; and she was the fairest woman of her day, accomplished in beauty and loveliness, elegance and grace. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The company is "assiduous" about hiring people who conform to the law, Ross said. Jihad Monitor
All involve assiduous application, as well as research for continuous improvement, and all require a lifelong daily effort.
You have heard from your most talented wordsmiths, best raconteurs, and most assiduous participants. Home Stretch
_ Accumulate all the possible circumstances which shall reinforce the right motives; put yourself assiduously in conditions that encourage the new way; make engagements incompatible with the old; take a public pledge, if the case allows; in short, envelop your resolution with every aid you know. How to Study and Teaching How to Study
n. - unremitting care; unflagging or obsequious attention. assiduous, v. - pardon; absolve; acquit; release. assoilment, assumpsit Xml's Blinklist.com
Each exploits contrast and color while elaborating motivic detail and assiduously building climaxes.
He was assiduous in his attendance at church.
You can never quite relax, even with the most assiduous efforts at procrastination.
But the newly appointed national security adviser has been assiduously built into a prominent player in the Bush team.
a certain number of persons who are called assiduous, exact, fulfilling their strict duty most rigorously, or, what comes to the same thing, for ever in their shops, and carrying on their trade from morning until night, and doing nothing else in the world. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
The brilliant Camille Paglia (who has the gift of becoming more and not less interesting with age) pointed out in Salon that Obama's "smirky" smearers have been busying themselves so assiduously with Rush Limbaugh that they forgot they have a second job: helping America's chief executive govern the country. Ashley Rindsberg: Century of Smear: Obama, Rush Limbaugh, and Wikipedia
He worked assiduously to confine the judges to their legal duties, and tried to limit their contacts with Versailles by forbidding them from sitting on the councils of the princes.
But the newly appointed national security adviser has been assiduously built into a prominent player in the Bush team.
So he assiduously courted the Sun and wooed its boss, soaping them with exclusives and promises of economic responsibility.
Humankind has built up that understanding over the eons first and foremost by observing phenomena accurately, and then recording the observations assiduously.
He was assiduous in his support for the subject.
The sources he uses are a combination of oral history - that is, he talked to many old-timers - and an assiduous search of local newspapers in the Clyde area.
I certainly wasn't an assiduous student. Times, Sunday Times
He was assiduously seconded by Mr. Henry Crayon, thin-faced and alert as ever, speaking in short, snappy sentences, from which all useless adjectives were elided. The Candidate A Political Romance
These facts made him angry and drove him assiduously to educate himself about medicine and ecology.
Princess Miriam filled the cup and drank and gave the Wazir to drink and served him with assiduous service, so that he was like to fly for joy and his breast broadened and he was of the gladdest. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He was assiduous in checking and double checking dates in parish records and in the various census.
In front of millions of his viewers he is taking a moral position - a far cry from the days of anodyne news reports which assiduously avoided taking positions.
Having arrived as chief chemist in 1883, he worked assiduously to expand the federal government's power in food and drug markets.
The panelists agreed that recent moves indicate "reinvigoration" of the former Clinton policies, whereby then-secretary of state Madeleine Albright worked assiduously to go to war on behalf of Kosovo. Toronto Sun
Such emphasis on the quality of the open vowels, achieved by years of assiduous practice, was also at the heart of Gregorian chant.
Some middle managers are assiduous in protecting their territory.
It is not capable of being answered by linguistic or textual analysis of the statute alone however assiduously that is performed.
Other ministers are no less assiduous. Times, Sunday Times
The Government has been assiduous in the fight against inflation.
What new devilish inventions are being worked on in that vast network that this nation has assiduously devoted to weapons of mass destruction for more than half a century?
This was comfortably the highest tally in 22 years of assiduous recording. Times, Sunday Times
Despite this assiduousness, he inevitably faced gaps when he started to write. David Remnick's 'The Bridge' Delves Deep Into Barack Obama's Presidency (New York Review)
Rather, we might follow the example of one especially history-aware acquaintance, who has been assiduously preserving letters, scraps of poetry and journal jottings.
In the village of Dandoli where I saw the market gardens, the mayor admitted without hesitation that the women were the most assiduous in composting. Mali's women face an even tougher future
They eventually rejected their teachers' conventional ideas and academic art, yet spent years assiduously copying and assimilating the Old Masters.
But the newly appointed national security adviser has been assiduously built into a prominent player in the Bush team.
There were plenty of professors who were forever assiduously browsing in vales of Enna and on Pentelican slopes among the vestiges of antiquity, slowly secreting lacteous facts, and not one of them would have raised his head from that exquisite pasturage, though Pan had made music through his pipe of reeds. Among My Books First Series
On retirement he worked assiduously as honorary consultant in chemotherapy and cancer care at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary.
Yet the result of this assiduous attention to presentation was that the image became too self-conscious.
Accumulate all the possible circumstances which shall reinforce the right motives; put yourself assiduously in conditions that encourage the new way; make engagements incompatible with the old; take a public pledge, if the case allows; in short, envelop your resolution with every aid you know. Problems of Conduct
It is something of a myth that detectives solve crimes by assiduous collection of evidence.
Rich in cultural capital and attuned to information and communication structures, they apply themselves assiduously to the task of self-fulfillment.
Plus, being an assiduous multi-tasker, he had other things he needed to accomplish on this record.
Great advances were achieved in people's lives simply by the work of an assiduous and committed group of women on a massive scale.
Each exploits contrast and color while elaborating motivic detail and assiduously building climaxes.
The opposition has been assiduous in considering the issues and developing solutions consistent with the principled position it has taken on the bill.
When Augustine was quite well again, and her boy no longer required the assiduous care which debars a mother from social pleasures, At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
If it were possible to smile in my present mood, I think I should indulge _one smile_ at the thought of falling in love with a woman who has scarcely had education enough to enable her to write her name, who has been confined to her bed about eighteen months by a rheumatism contracted by too assiduous application to the wash-tub, and who often boasts that she was born, not above forty-five years ago, in an upper story of the mansion at Mount Jane Talbot
He has always been an assiduous listener to radio.
His campaign team have assiduously courted the media.
Janet is neither "the most assiduous student ... nor the most naturally gifted" (p. 121). The Magicians by Lev Grossman: Questions
Much the same treatment was meted out to the illustrious society ladies among whom she networked so assiduously.
He worked assiduously to earn the money for his son's education.
Meanwhile the hottest debate in the local party is about the use of the word "assiduous" on our election leaflets. Local election blues
Skippy in his assiduous pursuit of fiction of the romantic tinge had often read of "velvety" eyes and pondered incredulously. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World
I note they worked assiduously to cooperate with the Military Committee - even when the Government and the Defence Minister were deliberately obstructive.
We should devote ourselves assiduously and faithfully to the duties of our profession.
As we remind ourselves the burden of proof is on the defendants, and the court must be assiduous not to strike out a claim which may be meritorious, even though the prospects of it being so are remote.
When I get the paper copies of the Sundays I'm tempted to try and calculate the average wordage thrown at the assiduous reader on a typical Sunday.
assiduous research
At this stage, the cult of the goddess was replaced by the cult of St George, who still favoured certain hunters according to their assiduousness in lighting candles, offering sacrifices, and so on.
He was assiduous in his attendance at church.
The Government has been assiduous in the fight against inflation.
Similar scenes punctuate a text marked by an assiduous application to the school of Ernest Hemingway, no bad model for any writer, though a notoriously difficult one to imitate.
Chlebnikov was an assiduous worker of verbal materials, a relentless excavator in the vocabulary: the sound of a root induced him to imagine in it a significative potential that the common language had not developed.
If you follow this plan as assiduously as I know you will, you should be gloriously swacked long before Gary loses contact with Val. Dustbury.com » Keeping you properly advised
He delighted in the young and was assiduous in attendance at the Oxford Union, where he was senior librarian.
The beautifully written catalogue based on her own assiduous research was the first of many. Times, Sunday Times
Clearly, the assiduousness with which this step should be undertaken will depend on what informs it.
He was elected for the borough speedily after his father's demise; a magistrate, a member of parliament, a county magnate and representative of an ancient family, he made it his duty to show himself before the Hampshire public, subscribed handsomely to the county charities, called assiduously upon all the county folk, and laid himself out in a word to take that position in Hampshire, and in the Empire afterwards, to which he thought his prodigious talents justly entitled him. Vanity Fair
And when he is joined by Russell Barr as a Boswell who is a mixture of close companion, whipping-boy and assiduous note-taker, you feel you are eavesdropping on one of the great double-acts in literary history. A Dish of Tea With Dr Johnson – review
Do you read other blogs with the assiduousness with which you read Roissy? If Seven Hundred Roissys Typed For Seven Hundred Years....
she worked assiduously on the senior thesis
Tony Blair was assiduous in recruiting intellectual heavyweights to his cause to put some philosophical weight on the party's old skeleton.
It's simply not worth the hassle now that most householders protect their homes so assiduously. Times, Sunday Times
Institutions are treading cautiously, even as they up the ante by courting hedge funds more assiduously.
One could readily imagine Woods not going out on the tour competing as assiduously as he does, but there he is.
Paul Murphy: All his claims were within the rules and "assiduously" checked by the authorities. I didn't quite catch that...
He had noted the last time he was on leave that she assiduously avoided any mention of the war and anything connected to it, and there had been a kind of brittleness about her. Phoenix And Ashes
But the newly appointed national security adviser has been assiduously built into a prominent player in the Bush team.
He spent three months assiduously courting a newspaper editor.
Before apartheid ended, I assiduously avoided buying South African products.
The Italian newsdealer now delivered the morning papers, and these he read assiduously. Sister Carrie
Brahmana, as thou practisest with assiduousness those divine, ancient, and eternal virtues which are so difficult of attainment even by pure-minded persons, thou appearest (to me) like a divine being. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
Sheep and goats are graminivorous, but sheep browse assiduously and steadily, whereas goats shift their ground rapidly, and browse only on the tips of the herbage. The History of Animals
From him I learned to assiduously avoid attaching "Esq." to my own name. Howard Dean appreciates my tremendous support.
Other ministers are no less assiduous. Times, Sunday Times
I was slightly bemused by his Oxford donnishness, a role assiduously cultivated.
I planted the Spanish peppers and assiduously cared for them amidst all my other pepper plants.
If you truly possess the academic curiosity and work ethic that espouses such professional assiduousness when it comes to details, and especially pertaining to events involving suppression of human rights, you will no doubt want to look into some of the more subtle clues in our possession regarding 9/11 - like the many bombs going off all over the WTC site. Maher Arar and the 9/11 Myth
This process was backed up by some assiduous courting of those ‘inferior’ partners even before they formally acceded.
The programme is assiduous in emphasising its Celtic credentials.
It's simply not worth the hassle now that most householders protect their homes so assiduously. Times, Sunday Times
When we deny permission by being too assiduous in erecting barriers against irresponsibility, we are also erecting barriers against the exercise of responsibility.
Constantinople, and received the addresses of foreign kings, the nephew of Justin assiduously cultivated the friendship of the senate. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
While working hard at perfecting his art, in London and Italy, Reynolds was equally assiduous in getting into the right clubs and societies.
Podulski had been assiduous in learning his adopted language.
For the assiduous trekker who throws away the route map you can find a watering hole with rich across-the-pond life.
Fine, click on the Google "News" tab – and you will be directed to a page of links where the word assiduous appears in news stories. Are Dictionaries Becoming Obsolete?
Those who knew me used to call me 'Brimstone Betty;' and in my own family I went by the name of the 'Bold Dragoon,' much to the miscontentment of my father, who tried hard to bring me to a more feminine habit of Body and frame of mind, both by affectionate expostulation, and by assiduous larruping with a stirrup leather. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
His assiduous devotion to watersports is evidently not matched by an equal hunger for knowledge - he failed his baccalaureate last year.
It was a tribute to her assiduous political work. Times, Sunday Times
Have you ever read something that assiduously avoids all passives and progressives?
I certainly wasn't an assiduous student. Times, Sunday Times
He spent three months assiduously courting a newspaper editor.
The idea of the SOMAFCO X Trust is the brainchild of former students of Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College and I request you to show our appreciation in particular to three comrades: Oupa Mahlatsi, Tlholo Mohlathe and Motsamai Maleka to whose commitment and untiring assiduousness we owe the nurturing of the idea and this project launch. Speech by Henry Makgothi at the launch of the SOMAFCO Trust
I can't tell you with what assiduousness I ignored this recent thing with Beck daring to screw with Martin Luther King's legacy. John Shore: And Yada, Yada, Yada ... Glenn Beck's a Christian
He assiduously avoided addressing the question of a merger.
There's a long tradition amongst Sydney's indigenous Australians to produce beautiful shell - craft pieces; mirrors, boxes, anything that can be covered or bordered - the elder ladies pass this down to their daughters and grandaughters, taking great care to use only the best shells, assiduously collected and categorised. Paper Bag Cover
Not only am I smug and ignorant and intellectually dishonest --- it's as if I don't even care about the subtle distinctions between one brand of Truthery and another, as if I can't be bothered to acknowledge the museum's-worth of evidence that he and his colleagues have so assiduously curated. 9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing

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