Yet not even the most dogged optimist could say that British family life has been radiantly transformed.
An idea will never give up a dogged pursuer. So long as you do not stop pursuing, you will bathe in the glow of your ideal.
The sponsor of the project dogged it when needed most.
Fortune's Adam Lashinsky, after months of dogged reporting and research, recently put together a story called "Inside Apple."
Even the test ban and a new treaty to cut off production of fissile material—both obvious first steps to a nuclear-free future—will be dogged with difficulty.
He subsequently fought a dogged battle to win control of the ANC and ultimately the country.
As he says, such clashes are not new: patent disputes and get-rich-quick hype have dogged the battery business since its inception.
The response of civil-liberties advocates has been swift and dogged.
But even the most dogged fighters are sometimes outclassed.
It owed its early success to the dogged efforts of a handful of Chinese feng shui experts. But from around 1990 onwards, numerous feng shui schools have sprung up in large American cities including San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Boston and Houston. Their enrolments have risen by leaps and bounds.
One question has always dogged him: Why are flies so hard to swat?
Finally, of course, there's the question that's dogged every manned flight since the Soviet Union's Yuri Gagarin first went into orbit in 1961: Why bother?
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.
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