And America is about nothing, if not about a certain doggedness against long odds. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - Galveston mayor responds to Weed mailer.] Reference
In the rest of my life, this kind of doggedness often annoys people who want me to let go of some issue. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
Perez point to search as the one market where the company's "doggedness" has failed to pay off. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He answers quietly, but with the noble doggedness which is the reason why we write this chapter in his life. From Wordnik.com. [Echoes of the War] Reference
The latest results show the doggedness of the past. From Wordnik.com. [As UBS races to a new future,] Reference
Then he settled back again and said, with some doggedness. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
doggedness is essential to victory, but not over-doggedness. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917] Reference
"Why?" she persisted, with a doggedness that matched his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
And yet, somehow, the British doggedness does not always answer. From Wordnik.com. [The Kickleburys on the Rhine] Reference
In telling her story, Ms. Patravadi likewise highlights doggedness. From Wordnik.com. [Center Stage] Reference
“Why not?” said he, a little of his former doggedness returning. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
"It's the truth, just the same," the girl declared, with doggedness. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
Sir Bevil met his death at Lansdowne, when, with grim doggedness, the. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Terror, fury, cupidity, and doggedness never had a larger battle-field. From Wordnik.com. [Erema] Reference
Given Gates's doggedness and Klein's zeal, that may be too much to ask. From Wordnik.com. [The Feds' Case Against Bill Gates] Reference
By his own account, he prevailed through sheer doggedness and defiance. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise And Fall And Rise And Fall And Rise Of N] Reference
It was his turn to shudder, but he repeated with doggedness in his tone. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Woman] Reference
The sinister look in the eyes, the doggedness of the face did not change. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
He thought the reporter's doggedness was a little funny, maybe even admirable. From Wordnik.com. [Grave Surprise]
There could be no doggedness in a character that would submit to such trimming. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
With keen instinct and sheer doggedness, Clinton had found and enlarged that center. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge To 2000] Reference
He spoke with a dull doggedness, as though mental fatigue did not allow him to say more. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
Well, you have to credit them for their doggedness, over at the American Petroleum Institute. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Weissman: Big Oil and the Price at the Pump] Reference
She fell into this and her doggedness has opened many eyes to what's happened to our elections. From Wordnik.com. [HBO's "Hacking Democracy" and Where the Heck are those Minutemen When You Need Them?] Reference
Something of his father's doggedness enabled him to set his teeth and stand clinging to the bails. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The freshness and vitality of Barack Obama versus the experience and doggedness of Hillary Clinton. From Wordnik.com. [Alec Baldwin: Defeating John McCain and the Continuation of the Bush Nightmare] Reference
More important, it is a timeless textbook on the value of sheer doggedness to investigative reporting. From Wordnik.com. [Books on Journalism] Reference
Loeb's doggedness is causing a public rift between the NTSB and its more powerful counterpart, the FAA. From Wordnik.com. [What Really Happened?] Reference
His Son, Charles I., inherited the father's troubled kingdom, despotic principles, and wilful doggedness. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
He has, says his former fellow-inmate Hugh Lewin, "a doggedness quite unlike any I have ever encountered". From Wordnik.com. [Marius Schoon dies of cancer, aged 61] Reference
Hines exercised with fierce, perspiring doggedness on a horizontal bar he had rigged in the back of the shop. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
Rep. Nadler picked up the cause of protecting the health of the people in the area with unmatched doggedness. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Schmeltzer: Heck of a Job, Christie] Reference
This was Gertrude's defence, given with some confusion, and with more of doggedness than defiance in her tone. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
An iron doggedness was in his blood -- the same doggedness that nerves men to sacrifice everything for principle. From Wordnik.com. [Don Strong, Patrol Leader] Reference
This was testimony to the skill and doggedness shown by communists in the cause of inter-racial class solidarity. From Wordnik.com. [Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 20] Reference
“I feel some curiosity sir,” he said, with a strange mixture of doggedness and timidity, “about Miss Gwilt.”. From Wordnik.com. [Armadale] Reference
In addition to ambition measured in megatons, plain doggedness, say North Carolina friends who know him long and well. From Wordnik.com. [As Lone Ranger, Kerry Shows Why He Needs Tonto] Reference
In Mr. Bohndorf's case, his doggedness and willingness to go to court made him impossible for Deutsche Bank to ignore. From Wordnik.com. [Banker, Gadfly, Lawyer, Spy] Reference
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