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An ideal will never give up a dogged pursuer. So long as you do not stop pursuing, you will bathe in the glow of your idea.

Since she and her sisters had found him in the godhood, one of them had dogged his every step, never letting him out of sight.

This dogged expansion is likely to continue. Lenovo's Mr Yang says the company is always on the look-out for other suitable targets.

Olmert said he is innocent until proven guilty, and like other scandals that have dogged him, nothing would come of it.

no elation on the pestilent face now, only white fear, for the crocodile was in dogged pursuit of him.

As he settled into his adopted state, Rockefeller worked hard to shed the playboy image that had dogged him in New York.

His lifelong obsession with the curative powers of the orgasm no doubt played a part in the FBI and FDA's dogged pursuit of him.

Although the relay in London was similarly dogged by protests, the British have not been subject to such specific hostility.

Mr Mugabe is clever and malevolent. Mr Tsvangirai is dogged, so far decent, and still by no means sure to prevail. Give him a chance.

Putting its own name on products was a major step for the company. But at first, Doherty said, the HTC was dogged by quality issues.

It would be a nonsense if the ECB's dogged defence of monetary rigour led, say, to an Italian default and a global depression.

In the end I signed a receipt and he dogged me out to my car and stood in the road as I drove away, following me with his eyes.

Some of his crabby belligerence may have been prompted by the ill-health and awful accidents that dogged his wife and children.

Plans for a George Bush library were bound to be dogged by jokes about the president's literacy.

She would have been just as dogged and determined, but in an entirely different way.

Mr. Chen built a fortune out of dogged determination and a reputation for being assiduously honest, fair and respectful.

At the same time, she was ascending at News Corp. , where her charm and dogged pursuit of stories won her a place close to Mr. Murdoch.

He continued to stand before her, in his dogged weakness.

But the company has also been dogged by challenges here, though Apple does not typically disclose its list of suppliers.

On top of that, Mr Abe's government, though short-lived, was dogged by a seemingly endless series of financial scandals.

His dogged conviction that his country would eventually find capitalism necessary was to be proved right in spades.

He has a great first touch, superb positional sense and dogged determination to get to the ball ahead of a defender.

She had phenomenal powers of concentration and memory, as well as a dogged determination to succeed.

The relay has been dogged by protests over Tibet, with chaotic scenes in London, Paris and San Francisco.

Before his death in 2009 he had become better known for his bizarre lifestyle and was dogged by allegations of child abuse.

He remembered Mr. Perrichon's dogged and undiscouraged attachment to the young man whom he had pulled out of the glacier.

She was not very clever, but by dogged efforts she learnt a good deal at school.

Many of the rainforest nations are dogged by corruption and there are fears that the could end up in the wrong hands.

Just wait it out. Many great photographers are not so blindingly talented, just dogged.

As he says, such clashes are not new: patent disputes and get-rich-quick hype have dogged the battery business since its inception.

Allegations of corruption and nepotism have long dogged France's long and complicated ties with a number of African countries.

Their salespeople are passionate about their products, however prosaic, and dogged in their determination to open up new markets.

Rumors of an explosive temper and an eccentric sexual appetite dogged him throughout his otherwise illustrious career.

His surgically repaired ankle dogged him throughout last season and he may not be ready for full practices once training camp arrives.

The global music industry is already dogged by slumping record sales, exorbitant ticket prices and a limping economy.

But what should be a simple ten-hour trip home remains dogged by delays, checkpoints and intense security.

All the arguments that have dogged Bosnia since the Yugoslav collapse in 1991 could come to the fore again.

Diner is over. Demi-tastes, cigars and brandy. The overall effect is one of worn elegance and dogged gentility. It is June. Night.

IT RESEMBLES the rows that have dogged every step taken by the two-year-old government led by Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister.

His victory was in part a tribute to the dogged persistence and quiet moderation of a man who has led his party for eight years.

This suggests that our warmer future will continue to be dogged, maybe even more regularly, by extreme climatic events.

It was dogged by bad luck, ranging from solar flares to boulder-strewn landing fields, and returned to Earth three years late.

The company's product releases have been dogged by delays.

SJM's road to market has been a long and tortuous one, dogged by bad luck and controversy.

Hence much of the complaints that have dogged Vista and encouraged many existing PC users to stick with XP.

John Major became an object of contempt because of his dogged refusal to preside over the break-up of the Conservative Party.

According to the Dutchman, his Arsenal side have cut out the "silly mistakes" that dogged the early part of their campaign.

On Jan. 8, 1967, Murdoch's most dogged problem came into being, at Jessop Hospital in the northern England industrial city of Sheffield.

Mr Beecham is dogged in his pursuit of ideas, Mr Miller adds, but he does not like confrontation.

When he is dogged by creditors, he is loath to hide himself from them but he has to, because he has gotten into a jam.

In an under-funded Harvard laboratory, the dogged, unglamorous slog towards finding a cure for cancer is under way.

"We are not feeling as dogged as people think about this issue, " said Mr Stone.

If eldest sibs are the dogged achievers and youngest sibs are the gamblers and visionaries, where does this leave those in between?

That year, in the French capital Paris, Princess Diana leaving the hotel car hit paparazzi "dogged" a car accident in a tunnel of death.

The 2004 Olympic champion has been dogged by the problem of a ruptured Achilles tendon since the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

But when his aunt introduced him to Yuncui he could not help noticing both her sweet nature and her dogged independence.

Worked with dogged sense of purpose, though felt the result feeble beyond redemption.

To achieve such expertise and recognition, an individual needs considerable inborn talents, refined by dogged persistence.

The outcome of this debate could decide the fate of Libya and its dogged colonel.

Well dressed, well spoken and utterly ruthless in his dogged determination to get his ex back, there's no finer Grant look.

Yet not even the most dogged optimistcould say the British family life has radiantly transformed.

Difficulties have dogged efforts by successive government to improve incentives for investors in small, high-risk companies.

Erosion by the Yangtze River had formed numerous gorges and construction was dogged by underground rivers and caves.

It's their dogged perseverance and unyielding determination, through disappointment and triumph alike.

His main rival, Chris Huhne, the energy secretary, is dogged by claims that he evaded penalties for a motoring offence in 2003.

In Congress, Democrats face a dogged attempt by Republicans to stop or delay a climate change bill.

Paris has long lagged far behind London, dogged by a reputation for excessive regulation and high taxes.

There was practically no mention of history, an issue that dogged previous summits.

In "State of Play, " that kind of dogged journalism is under siege from owners who want a better return on their investment.

The space agency's dogged pursuit of extreme speed, officials hope, will ultimately make space flight easier to accomplish.

Although I'm still dogged by poor health I keep myself fit playing basketball and helping coach youngsters at football and cricket.

It is a risky venture that has not yet proved to be economical, and it has already been dogged by allegations of bribery.

He was dogged by his misfortune.

Yet not even the most dogged optimist could say that British family life has been radiantly transformed.

has been dogged by delays, and the Football Association has already allowed Multiplex to move its completion deadline several times.

His dogged determination helped him to win the race.

There is little Mr Obama can do to change any of this, despite all his dogged talk of repairing roads and bridges.

The new race has been dogged by difficulties from the beginning.

Yet relations are dogged by fears of a new cold war, or even a hot one, breaking out.

Facebook is also still plagued by doubts about its commitment to users' privacy, an issue that had dogged it since its earliest days.

Earlier in his talk, Turner poked fun at the reception problems that have dogged Apple's iPhone 4 since its June 24 launch.

The thought returned with a dogged insistence.

Bushehr has been dogged by problems for years and its opening was recently delayed once again.

Yet what is most curious about the issue is the dogged insistence of American officials in maintaining the Japanese protectorate.

"two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder" (W. E. B. Du Bois).

And we have to show we're going to be dogged on this.

Dog All the time he was in that country the secret police dogged his steps.

The family then came to the attention of geneticists at Oxford, who began a dogged search for the gene that caused these problems.

Fortune's Adam Lashinsky, after months of dogged reporting and research, recently put together a story called "Inside Apple. "

Boeing Commercial has avoided the scandals that dogged the defence business.

Eventually, after much dogged fighting, our troops bore down all resistance.

My progress here and now supports the thesis: I've started typing this article with a dogged focus that is harder to replicate at work.

Controversy has often dogged the use of federal intelligence gear for environmental monitoring.

Initially perplexed, Tony begins a dogged pursuit of the diary.

The same problem has dogged the international versions of Thatcherism.

Eventually, after much dogged fighting s, our troops bore down all resistance.

The question that has dogged scientists for decades, however, is why hasn't the ocean bottom sunk faster?

The New York Senator is dogged by questions of whether she can win enough swing states.

We were dogged by bad luck during the whole journey.

That simple but vital question has dogged the microblogging service since its birth three years ago.

It's a question that has dogged professionals for decades. So what have they discovered?

Financial worries dogged her life, and she was forced to work until her death in 1965.

Such questions have dogged America's social scientists for decades.

Conflicting national interests have always dogged the EU.

The police dogged the suspected thief.

The preparations have been dogged with logistical setbacks and blunders such as inaccurate or undelivered ballot papers.

They had a dogged defense of the city.

The only way to improve is through hard work and dogged perseverance.

Apple, which announced record profits in January, has been dogged by criticism of work conditions at its China-based suppliers.

Question marks have dogged the Chinese investments from the start, not least whether authorities in that country would give the go-ahead.

The fundamental problem that has dogged the economy, and equity markets, since 2008 will remain.

Even then, he is still a dogged competitor.

Jackson's later career was dogged by child abuse allegations.

They had dogged it since and ex-posed it to compensation claims.

One question has always dogged him: Why are flies so hard to swat?

Similar doubts dogged the corporate world.

Although he's LESS talented, he won by sheer dogged persistence.

Making friends with his friends, I dogged his steps.

The WTO launched the Doha round in 2001 and it has been dogged ever since by differences among member countries.

President Mahamadou Issoufou, who came to power this year after replacing a caretaker military regime, is already dogged by coup attempts.

Iraq woes have dogged Bush throughout his August break.

But no one doubts the dogged determination of the Chinese gambler.

That has hitherto been impossible because of Mr Trichet's dogged insistence that any Greek restructuring be "voluntary" .

The response of civil-liberties advocates has been swift and dogged.

He did it with dogged determination.

Injuries dogged the football team all season.

We were dogged by bad luck the whole journey.

The Assads have long drawn legitimacy from their dogged support of Palestinian rights.

the police dogged the thief.

The Three Gorges project has been dogged by skeptics, even within China's bureaucracy, since it was approved in 1992.

The field is dogged by inconsistent terminology, with terms such as ethical and socially responsible investing also widely used.

Even so, dissenters and even rioters often dogged Graham's lecture tours.

The Miss USA pageant has been dogged by controversy in recent years.

Apple's iPhone 4 has been dogged by reports of antenna-reception problems since its launch last month.

Estimates from the 1970s and 1980s, which suggested much lower income persistence, were dogged by poor data.

vt. Her career was dogged by misfortunes.

For all of 2005, minor purchases required dogged detective work as Bongiorni scoured catalogues and read labels.

He was dogged by financial worries.

If the DPJ wins (and it is ahead in opinion polls, see chart), it can expect dogged resistance from the LDP and its bureaucratic allies.

The policemen dogged his steps.

Extremely handsome celebrities, such as Tom Cruise, have long been dogged with rumors of being gay all their careers.

Hargreaves admits United have not yet hit top gear, but he has been encouraged by the dogged determination shown by the team.

The man was dogged by bad luck during the whole year.

Football has been dogged by scandals in this area.

Dogged willpower can conquer any peak in the world!

He dogged the girl everywhere.

Bad luck dogged him AT the heels.

he's been dogged by failure in the past year; now he is working strenuously to pull out.

went to China last month hoping to find workers to ease the acute staff shortage that's dogged his business for the past four years.

Poverty dogged him also.

he was dogged wherever he went.

Unease on both has dogged Google's stock this year; the shares are down 5%, while the Nasdaq Composite Index is up 10%.

His dogged effort helped a lot.

Such conditions dogged the industry in the 1970s and 1980s.

There, in order to have a colony of the hut, they fight dogged.

I appreciate her dogged determination to learn English.

It is dogged that China's Olympic spirit is too, strives, the spirit that is dedicated unselfishly .

It is dogged that does it.

I AM here because of the dogged relentlessness of one man: Nicolas Sarkozy.

Factory owners in China, for example, have recently been dogged by rare strikes over long hours and low wages.

We can see her dogged determination to learn English.

But no matter who is chosen, he will still face Mr Ozawa's dogged obstructionism.

Dogged by student protests and allegations of corruption, the centrist Liberals are trying to keep the separatists at bay one more time

"Watertight doors and hatches were dropped into place and dogged down to give the ship full watertight integrity" (Tom Clancy)

It was not just the cold or the dogged spirit of the Russian people that forced Napoleon and his army to retreat

gain respect through sheer dogged determination

Analysis on the Reasons of the Dogged Vitality of the Jewish Nation

It is dogged does it. The days of easy, but careless people. -- Yuan Mei, a Qing Dynasty poet

their dogged defence of the city

Pakistan lead mine has been dogged by conflict, including a suicide bombing that killed 29;