It is the dogged who wins.

Dogged if I can understand cold out meanness.

And the sports' governing bodies have been dogged by corruption.

Not to change the subject, but there were times when his dogged dedication threatened to derail it all.

According to Xu Xiangdong, facing mental problems, many people in life adopt the attitude of dogged resistance or avoidance toward psychological pressure.

Following the NATO led intervention in Libya in 2011, which the Kremlin regarded as another example of Western overreach, Russia has been more aggressive in asserting itself internationally, mainly in opposition to the US. This is most obvious in Russia s dogged support for Bashar al Assad s regime in Syria.

The question of whether to meet with nasty but powerful people has dogged diplomacy since its inception, and both ends of the question have been argued endlessly and inconclusively. So it is probably best to examine the merits of each case separately, looking to precedents and agendas for guidance.

In his dogged defence of his friends, M. Lecoq had forgotten that, in his day, one of the leading proponents of his ideology, Jean Jaurès, had fought to defend the independence and territorial integrity of countries which had, like Morocco, been coveted by European imperialism since the beginning of the century.

And with the same dogged determination that my father had bred into me since I was such a child he taught me how to sail, knowing I could never see where I was going, I could never see the shore, and I couldn't see the sails, and I couldn't see the destination.

To those of us who have toiled, often fruitlessly, on this issue in the past, it is a huge achievement brought about by US Secretary of State John Kerry s sheer dogged determination and the willingness of Israel s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to take political risks with their domestic public opinion.

This hope must be grounded in action, in a firm resolve to act decisively in the best interests of this great institution indeed in the interest of all humanity and untainted by the narrow national interests that have dogged our path during the last five decades. The President I now call on the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Kenya, His Excellency the Honourable Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka.