How To Use Dogged In A Sentence
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Or a pragmatic solution to an expensive problem that has dogged homebuyers for decades?
Times, Sunday Times
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Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power.
'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
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Throughout his career he has handled whatever has been thrown at him in a characteristically calm and dignified manner, underpinned by desire and doggedness.
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He is as slippery as they come; a quality that has doubtless helped him to survive the controversies that have dogged his political career.
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I hung a sharp left, sharp right, sharp left -- that car birddogged collision close.
Hollywood Nocturne
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Upon it, in lieu of the dogged, black – visaged ruffian they had expected to behold, there lay a mere child: worn with pain and exhaustion, and sunk into a deep sleep.
Oliver Twist
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He sat to the last moment doggedly struggling to keep cool and to mount the ciliated funnel of an earthworm’s nephridium.
Love and Mr Lewisham
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It was cool without being chill, and took the warmth of one's hand flatteringly soon, as if it liked to do so, yet kept its freshness; it was smooth without being glossy, mat as a pearl, and as delightful to roll in the hand; and of an exquisite, alarming frangibility that gave it, in its small way, that flavour which belongs to pleasures that are dogged by the danger of a violent end.
The Judge
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For a man whose playing career was characterised by dogged resilience and bloody-minded determination, the manager cuts a very different figure.
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Dogged as a flip-flopper in 2008 for his repeated policy shifts to the right, Mr. Romney is running this time as the unflappable former businessman and nonpolitician.
Romney, in Shift, to Court Tea Party
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There was a muted boom as the Captain closed and dogged the ships inner lock shut behind us.
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Most of my accomplishments came as the result of sheer doggedness.
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From August on, the German companies will have to fight for customers against a dogged rival that has already proven it can beat them in the U.S. market.
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The arch tastemaker meant it as a compliment, but barbed remarks and outright insults have dogged her throughout her career.
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Clarkson & Co'sdogged shilling for a thoroughly modern ie gleefully irresponsible, stonewashed brand of middle age.
Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die
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One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two warring souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. from "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" in The Souls of Black Folk.
Sunday culture.
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The husband is put off by such hand-holding, but after five days of dogged GPS navigating and molten heat, I am relieved to be nannied.
Everyone in the RV, It's Road-Trip Time!
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In the rest of my life, this kind of doggedness often annoys people who want me to let go of some issue.
Archive 2006-08-01
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Here the gangsman marked his victim, whose steps he dogged into the country when his business was done or his pleasure ended, never for a moment losing sight of him until he walked into the trap all ready set in some wayside spinny or beneath some sheltering bridge.
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
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So it would take more years of dogged detective work by a handful of investigators to connect the dots.
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She said one of her hopes was complete recovery from the illness that has dogged her.
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Forbearing to engage in the open field, where the gain would lie wholly with the enemy, he lay stoutly embattled on ground where the citizens must reap advantage; since, as he doggedly persisted, to march out meant to be surrounded on every side; whereas to stand at bay where every defile gave a coign of vantage, would give him mastery complete. 46
Agesilaus
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His pilgrimage is dogged by calamity, as oxen sicken and die, the cart carrying the bell catches fire, and waifs and strays join his tattered procession.
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To Limerick's eternal credit they battled bravely, determinedly, and doggedly to the very end.
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I took no view, but always felt uncomfortable that his dogged insistence on his innocence should count against him.
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Seven minutes later, though, the 10 men were rewarded for a period of dogged persistence.
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So his dogged belief in his ability as a salesman doesn't come off as gumption and moxie, instead he comes off as delusional.
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They have gained respect through sheer dogged determination.
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This week it was the new USA crime show White Collar, otherwise known as Catch Me if You Can for 48 Hrs. The concept: Dogged FBI agent Peter Burke releases his prize arrest – supersuave supercriminal Neil Caffrey – from jail to help the Fed track down other criminals.
Josh Wolk's Pop Culture Club talks 'White Collar': Was it fun crime or punishment? | EW.com
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A night to bring any man to contemplate the dogged scourge of Lady Fortune's whip with a jaundiced eye.
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But the District Judge, sitting at Dewsbury Magistrates Court, told the defendant that his dogged pursuance of the case had wasted a lot of taxpayers' money.
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The push was dogged by rising costs, shrinking stockbroking fees and volatile markets.
Samsung Securities, Daiwa Cut Jobs in Asia
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These diarised moments of brutal honesty, twinned with hesitant uncertainty, are typical of Woolf's swings between self-doubt and dogged ambition.
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I have been impressed by his sheer patience, doggedness, and tenacity.
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He shook off a couple would-be tacklers and bulldogged it for a couple yards more till our own Michael Jameson came flying in like a Mack Truck and blindsided him at the thirteen yard line.
An Open Letter to Fans of South Plains Football
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gotten some recognition for its dogged drive towards greenishness: a good-enough-everywhere-but-Columbia grade of A - on the third annual Sustainability Report Card for American colleges.
The Bwog
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'I want to be paid,' she said doggedly; her elocution slipped a cog or two: 'I done you a favour.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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Its sheer joy and wonder reside neither in tension nor resolve, neither verse nor chorus, but simply in dogged perseverance.
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There were attempts to end the infighting that has dogged the party since the leader's first election victory last year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Character, narrative, plot - only a dogged, dull-witted plodder like Malcolm Lodgebury bothers with that sort of stuff now.
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A class is created of dogged self-righteous obstructionists with a vested interest in the status quo, however obsolescent, however decayed, however inappropriate to the site.
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The theme, an eight-bar structure of stentorian semibreve piano chords, receives six doggedly unvaried statements.
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Plans for the new campus have been dogged by controversy from the start.
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Peter was a voracious reader, a tireless networker, intrepid and fearless at approaching the biggest names, and dogged in working with authors to finish their manuscripts.
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I simply bulldogged my way into casting sessions and talent agencies.
HAVE YOU SEEN MY COUNTRY LATELY?
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The hatch closed, they dogged it, and checked to make sure everyone was in the seats lining the walls.
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With the food ordered, the dogged self-promoter is straight into bigging up the firm.
Times, Sunday Times
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It had never entered my head that I had what it took to dolmetsch … While a student, I had learned the first stanza of Die Lorelei by rote from a college roommate, and I happened to give those lines a dogged rendition while working within earshot of the battalion commander …
Humor
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For years she had been dogged by rumors that Crandon had surgically altered her vaginal opening to allow for the production of bigger apports in the séance room.
The Secret Life of Houdini
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Unlike Mujib-ur Rahman who was dogged by allegations of nepotism and corruption, Zia-ur Rahman was known as Mr. Clean, even among his enemies.
Desicritics
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Plans by the Government to buy the island and designate it as a national historic park have been dogged by controversy, including a legal wrangle over the past 20 years that went as far as the Supreme Court.
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They dogged him the length and breadth of the country, wherever the small troupe of players appeared.
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Dogged as a flip-flopper in 2008 for his repeated policy shifts to the right, Mr. Romney is running this time as the unflappable former businessman and nonpolitician.
Romney, in Shift, to Court Tea Party
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But again and again, he was dogged by scandals of his own making that made him as much of an embarrassment as an asset to the party he served.
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And by doggedness and hard work Charles began to build up the reputation of the Grant's blend as a consistent, high quality product.
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Rebecca NicholsonFor most of the near decade that British troops have been fighting in Afghanistan, the focus of their war has been Helmand, a region famous even among Afghans for the hostility of its terrain and the doggedness of its people.
TV highlights 29/06/2011: Killer Tigers | Timeshift: Hotel Deluxe | Finding Amelia | The Apprentice | Afghanistan: The Battle For Helmand | 24 Hours in A&E
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I'm doggedly refusing to make puns about the restaurant name.
Times, Sunday Times
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The latter system has been dogged by complaints that it can too easily be abused by people intent on fraud.
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She was dogged in her condemnation of those who went too far too soon.
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The press doggedly insists on telling us how many soldiers have died since May 1st.
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I have to admit that this issue has dogged me most of this week.
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Even the action groups, who are still smarting from failing to win a single board seat and Treves's dogged refusal to co-opt any of them on to the board, wholeheartedly support his chairmanship.
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'I want to be paid,' she said doggedly; her elocution slipped a cog or two: 'I done you a favour.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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Yet despite a dogged performance by most members of the committee there were no knockout blows.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm doggedly refusing to make puns about the restaurant name.
Times, Sunday Times
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This slam-bang B-movie pastiche is wildly uneven as it doggedly strives (sometimes with obvious strain) to sustain a freewheeling, anything-goes air of exuberant junkiness," writes Joe Leydon.
Venice film festival opens with Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan
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Her mother dogged her heels, asking more about her day.
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Hougan raises such questions as: Did bugging expert Bernard Spindel, an intimate of Jimmy Hoffa who was birddogged by Bobby Kennedy, bug Jack Kennedy in bed with Marilyn Monroe?
Short Reviews
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In a performance full of skill, passion and dogged determination the men in red and black ensured that the Mayo League crown became the latest resident of the ancient barony.
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What does come across is the great affection for this man and his dogged pursuit of excess.
Times, Sunday Times
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He punched on, with his left hand only, and as he punched, doggedly, only half-conscious, as from a remote distance he heard murmurs of fear in the gangs, and one who said with shaking voice:
Chapter 15
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There is something rather grand about his pride and dogged insistence upon his Liberal identity.
Times, Sunday Times
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For years it has clung doggedly to established practices and conventions, some of which pass no scrutiny by modern society.
Times, Sunday Times
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Paul is still young and relatively inexperienced at this level, but no one will question his ability, his guts, his doggedness, or his commitment.
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Reilly's story, one of loyalty, brotherhood, and dogged determination, captures and holds the reader's attention.
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Technical problems dogged our trip from the outset.
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Although the men fought doggedly on, a sense of hopeless despair engulfed them.
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Estonia are a tough, organised team who will play with a dogged determination to keep us out.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unlike Mujib-ur Rahman who was dogged by allegations of nepotism and corruption, Zia-ur Rahman was known as Mr. Clean, even among his enemies.
Desicritics
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You’d take a wild species, say a wolf that hunts caribou by long pursuit, and apply selection experimentally to see if you could breed, say, a dogged little wolf that chivies rabbits underground: let’s call it a Jack Russell terrier.
The Wonder That Is Dog, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Her ambition and dogged determination ensured that she rose to the top of her profession.
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Even after Duke took a five-point lead, Butler bulldogged back and was within 60-59 in the last minute.
Butler's would-be winning shot 'felt good' but fell short vs. Duke
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Her athletics career has been dogged by injury.
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If Richards's film is a tribute to the tenacity of the treasure hunters, its very existence is proof of his dogged obstinacy.
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Cast bronze was now his favoured material and a growing sense of blandness and reiteration dogged his later career.
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Spider, doggedly watching Estella, outwatched many brighter insects, and would often uncoil himself and drop at the right nick of time.
Great Expectations
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These heterodox opinions have, in some respects, dogged Evangelicalism ever since.
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The Civil Commissioners acted with resolution, but they were dogged by the problem of the ultimate legitimacy of their acts.
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What does come across is the great affection for this man and his dogged pursuit of excess.
Times, Sunday Times
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An Gaeltacht came out of traps like a good greyhound, took the game doggedly and determinedly to the leaders, and had them reeling as they attempted to hold the Western champions at bay.
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Seemingly endless quantitative easing has failed to ignite any inflation in an economy that has been dogged by deflationary pressures for decades.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am a dogged traveler, the determined vagabond.
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The same dogged determination can be found in his nephew.
Times, Sunday Times
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And then they got out - sea dogged by a group of landlubbing Navy Seals.
Will Durst: Arrgh Diplomacy
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And America is about nothing, if not about a certain doggedness against long odds.
Waldo Jaquith - Galveston mayor responds to Weed mailer.
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If persistence, talent, and dogged hard work in the face of nearly insuperable obstacles qualifies one for stardom, these students get billing above the title.
Neil Zevnik: Rolling Out the Red Carpet: A Different Hollywood Tale
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The system was supposed to replace the box-ticking, legalistic approach that dogged predecessors with a more flexible approach based on high-level principles.
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The Stockingtonians were chopfallen, but they were angry and dogged; and
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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There has always been a furious doggedness to him, a strong-willed purposefulness that drove him, sometimes headlong, through life.
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But often this brutality only provoked dogged resistance and outright rejection of the soldiers' beliefs.
Christianity Today
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American forces have been dogged by hit-and-run attacks by small groups of fighters.
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No wonder that in Lydgate's energetic nature the sense of a hopeless misconstruction easily turned into a dogged resistance.
Middlemarch
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The other topic that has dogged athletics, as it has so many sports in recent years, is drugs.
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His remarkable doggedness led him to carry on regardless when two stink bombs broke everyone else's concentration.
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The huge leaps for mankind were dogged by catastrophic failures.
Times, Sunday Times
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In between times, he has plugged away at a steady pace, approaching his work with a measured, thorough approach more dogged than dashing.
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The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks.
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His ticket to Urumchi did not, as he thought, guarantee a journey, but was, more aptly, an invitation to join in the melee, a circus of inseverable wrangling in which the strong, the wily and dogged, prevailed.
Heaven Lake
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Perez point to search as the one market where the company's "doggedness" has failed to pay off.
Undefined
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This phrase, which had dogged him for three decades, was not readily explicable, which was perhaps why it had proved so tenacious.
SACRAMENT
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Such dogged, browbeating miserabilism, slathered in extra helpings of implausibility, is very far from true tragedy indeed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The agency was dogged by complaints.
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It was a dogged display from Morecambe.
The Sun
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Wagner had climbed up the greasy pole doggedly, and methodically.
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He was, indeed, deeply and warmly affectionate, but troublesome through outbreaks of will and temper, showing all the ordinary instinct of trying how far the authorities for the time being will endure resistance; sufficiently indolent of mind to use his excellent abilities to save exertion of intellect; passionate to kicking and screaming pitch, and at times showing the doggedness which is such a trial of patience to the parent.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson
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He has a dogged determination to improve his life.
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There was a persistency to his nature, a sort of dogged determination that she would have admired if it didn't grate her so.
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Since Sally was the only member of the group who would acknowledge Yap's existence, the little gnome dogged her every step, chattering excitedly.
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I hated all the regulations and the regulatory agencies that dogged my every step.
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However, some very changeable conditions dogged the first race of the Scottish Flying Fifteen Championships' 25-strong fleet at Loch Earn yesterday.
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I took no view, but always felt uncomfortable that his dogged insistence on his innocence should count against him.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, the Spider, doggedly watching Estella, outwatched many brighter insects, and would often uncoil himself and drop at the right nick of time.
Great Expectations
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What he lacked in pace or natural flair, he made up for in dogged application.
Times, Sunday Times
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I marvelled at the imaginative energy of the Martian enterprise, at its visionary and dogged inventiveness.
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Ron Curran, a dogged, award-winning investigator and unblushing idealist who helped establish the L.A. Weekly's reputation for hard-edged, relevant local reporting, died this week at 43 in his Huntington Beach home.
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It's hard to square our usual image of Stevens as a doggedly conscientious master of surety and fidelity with this carefree frontiersman.
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With good restart possession from scrum and line-out they threw everything at a dogged CYM.
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It was a dogged display from Morecambe.
The Sun
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It was that dogged determination, that application and attention to detail they were looking for.
Times, Sunday Times
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The diaries are at the heart of much of this continuing interest, even when perhaps not obviously so, because of their dogged frankness about Mann's yearning and unpractised homosexuality.
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His remarkable doggedness led him to carry on regardless when two stink bombs broke everyone else's concentration.
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There has always been a furious doggedness to him, a strong-willed purposefulness that drove him, sometimes headlong, through life.
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The movie detective is an archetypal Western hero: stoic, logical, and doggedly determined.
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In other words, squeeze the life out of the game and see if they can sneak a goal and cling doggedly to the lead.
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Such dogged, browbeating miserabilism, slathered in extra helpings of implausibility, is very far from true tragedy indeed.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is perennially dogged by comic mishaps and misfortunes, usually of his own making.
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Her ambition and dogged determination ensured that she rose to the top of her profession.
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Fortunately the dogged good sense of the ordinary man is far from dead.
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Breeders' dogged determination to discuss only property prices and schooling will also make them seem a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
Times, Sunday Times
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He thanked the colonel for the interview and returned doggedly to his pistol lessons in the basement range two doors away.
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Although he's less talented, he won by sheer dogged persistence.
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The theological debates of the time come alive through his bourgeois, sporting, nonintellectual hero who nonetheless is dogged in trying to find out what precisely he would be assenting to in becoming an Anglican clergyman.
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But she was also formidable; forthrightly and doggedly challenging what she regarded as slipshod thinking or careless expression.
Times, Sunday Times
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The 38-year-old brought up a dogged ton with a fortunate under-edge for a single before Sammy accounted for Mishra, who cut uppishly to Bravo.
Rahul Dravid century gives India fighting chance against West Indies
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She doggedly regained her footing and ran on, brown, dirty mud splattered in her long midnight blue hair.
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He overcame the initial seam movement, two perilously close lbw appeals and a few edgy moments before settling down into a dogged mode.
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The same dogged determination can be found in his nephew.
Times, Sunday Times
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NOTE: Definitive and often exclusive coverage of the entire ACORN story has been untiringly performed by The Brad Blog, whose dogged persistence can be credited for much of the progress toward justice and exposure found above.
Archive 2010-03-01
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He is as slippery as they come; a quality that has doubtless helped him to survive the controversies that have dogged his political career.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dogged by a long-term pelvic injury, the 36-year-old South African had not been named in Warwickshire's four-day team since last August and his 2011 entrance could not have been more dramatic.
Lancashire v Warwickshire | County Championship match report
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Like Mao before him, Deng doggedly clung to power, despite becoming less mentally sharp in his final years.
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Yet despite a dogged performance by most members of the committee there were no knockout blows.
Times, Sunday Times
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Estonia are a tough, organised team who will play with a dogged determination to keep us out.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, the internet retailer has been dogged by claims that it left some customers without Christmas presents after failing to deliver orders on time.
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The alternative is a culture in which only the truly, soaringly, doggedly boring can thrive.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is dogged does it. The days of easy, but careless people.
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With his head pressed down on the bare polished wood of his desk, he hurled himself mentally at an earth of adamant and a heaven of brass, hurled himself ferociously, repeatedly, with a kind of doggedness, as though he would either break them down or dash his own soul to pieces.
The Street Called Straight
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Those who knew George knew of his dogged determination to see things through to the end.
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Rumors that SpongeBob himself is gay have dogged him since he was found passed out in a soapdish at a San Francisco bath house following a Saturday night “skip and wave” show at the Nob Hill Masonic Center.
Literal-Minded Parents Seek Irony-Free School Zones
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I'm going to take the most extraordinary political event that has happened in Britain for however many years and I am going to doggedly interiorise it and depoliticise it with a certain type of limpid prose . . .
A life in writing: China Miéville
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Although he's less talented, he won by sheer dogged persistence.
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One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two warring souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. from "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" in The Souls of Black Folk.
Sunday culture.
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Mont Blanc is just 13 km from Les Droites, the peak on which Andrew doggedly clung to life for five days in sub-zero temperatures after becoming trapped in a storm.
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Loneliness, grief and despair dogged her at every turn, seemed to follow always in her wake, just out of sight.
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To put it mildly, the monks' dogged persistence in spite of these waxing and waning earthly powers suggest they know a thing or two about sticking around.
Christianity Today
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The senator complained that he was dogged all week by opponents of the White House plan who dominated news coverage.
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'I want to be paid,' she said doggedly; her elocution slipped a cog or two: 'I done you a favour.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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There were more clashes with the coach after his trade to the Nuggets, including an accusation that he dogged it through his first season in Denver.
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Dogged by a corruption inquiry, he appears to have been dumped by the party hierarchy.
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There are many townies who do not survive such trials but there are also many who doggedly remain, and at last there are new magazines and organisations that offer support - and much needed advice.
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It takes a special strength of character to spend decades doggedly pursuing a theory that attracts harsh opposition.
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The wind paused for a moment, as if gathering up all its strength against the dogged persistency which is man, and in that moment the three on the yard had the sail under their chests beating and crushing the life out of it.
The Beach of Dreams
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French and Irish yawns are very similar, the only difference being, that whereas the Frenchman finishes the yawn resignedly, and springs to his legs, the Irishman finishes it with an energetic gasp, as if he were hurling it remonstratively into the face of Fate, turns round again and shuts his eyes doggedly -- a piece of bravado which he _knows_ is useless and of very short duration.
The Young Fur Traders
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She would fight doggedly for her rights as the children's mother.
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Zambia had none of the heritage of war and violence that dogged, say, Kenya or Zimbabwe.
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That may seem surprising given his immense fame, but ambivalence about his status dogged his career and has pursued him posthumously.
The Times Literary Supplement
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As for mademoiselle's having had the opportunity and yet not having done so," Blaise went on, with a kind of doggedness, "the spy was not to plan the ambush until the governor should arrive at Clochonne.
An Enemy to the King
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These bizarre stunts are entertaining and the handheld camera in dogged pursuit offers a sense of immediacy.
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`There's nae call to be personal," MacHinery said doggedly.
THE LONELY SEA
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Derrida is so perversely myopic a reader, doggedly pursuing the finest flickers of meaning across a page, that he exasperates some of his opponents with his supersubtlety, not his airy generality.
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The people are at bay - let the bloodhounds of money who dogged us thus far beware.
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Ages 12+Wealthy Zarita has enjoyed a cosseted life as the daughter of the local magistrate; Saulo's life has been dogged by persecution, danger and poverty.
Recommended reads: ages 11–13
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Yet his dogged determination carried him through thousands of experiments, seventeen books, and a hundred scientific papers.
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Her ambition and dogged determination ensured that she rose to the top of her profession.
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This dogged persistence and determination to see it through has taken its toll, both on his finances and his emotional well being.
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Since then, Spector has been a virtual recluse, dogged by rumours of mania and madness.
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But Satan dogged the Tahitian's movements for a full hour before he made up his mind that the man was an appurtenance of the place.
Chapter 8
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It is by a dogged insistence on the common criminality of violence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mowbray moved to Celtic in a ￡1m move last year but has been dogged by injuries since his transfer.
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All failure, however undeserved, however excused or dogged by ill fortune, is treated the same.
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Caleb augured the worst, turned a deaf ear to the trio aforesaid, and was moving doggedly on, his ancient castor pulled over his brows, and his eyes bent on the ground, as if to count the flinty pebbles with which the rude pathway was causewayed.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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It is a scenario where politicians couldn't even promise results as labour law snookered workers dogged by bad, bad luck after a life-time commitment to an industry that simply moved from Athy.
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The dogged Soviet pursuit of a Moon shot led to notable advances.
Times, Sunday Times
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Throw in some shrewd management and a dogged determination to prove the doubters wrong, and the losers can end up raking it in.
The Sun
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His dogged pursuit of the possible and the necessary was at the other end of the scale from Canning's verbal brilliance.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Howard, love him or detest him, has earned respect as a leader with incredible staying power, and dogged consistency over the years.
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The all-consuming fervor of the election is subsiding, leaving the president the thankless task of wrestling with the same uncooperative economy that dogged him throughout his first term.
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He caused a diplomatic incident with his dogged pursuit of leg theory.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now finally clear of injury woes, the Spaniard has been dogged by ongoing back problems.
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This year, his handful of caucus organizers has been in close touch with his past supporters and birddogged county party organizations.
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