1 His remarkable doggedness led him to carry on regardless when two stink bombs broke everyone else's concentration.

2 But it was nothing that doggedness couldn't cure.

3 Determination went hand in hand with doggedness.

4 I did all this with unnatural haste and doggedness; it was all too much for me.

5 Darwin's son Francis recalled his father's temperament: "Doggedness expresses his frame of mind almost better than perseverance."

6 Doggedness is the watchword here: with a sweltering equatorial sun and almost no freshwater,[] it is not long before 70-pound water-loaded packs begin to buckle knees and strain backs.

7 But such doggedness comes at the cost of further, perhaps fatal, rebellions.

8 And by doggedness and hard work Charles began to build up the reputation of the Grant's blend as a consistent, high quality product.

9 Most of my accomplishments came as the result of sheer doggedness.

10 Hers is a fame based not only on sheer doggedness, a quality held in high esteem by Koreans, but also on the universal human sympathy for a monumental — and in her case, cheerful — loser.

11 It is boosting trade with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and sticking, with commendable doggedness in the face of little encouragement, to the task of making peace with Pakistan.