It is the dogged who wins.

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

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.

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.