Christian orthodoxies, he was making dogged attempts to come to terms with his sado-masochistic tendencies.

Overall, Thompson's main legacy is perhaps his dogged attempt to keep his state's oil-based wealth within Texas.

It already involves more than 65 million cable suscribers each day in Mr. Lamb's dogged attempt to televise more or less everything going on in Government.

His security chief was quick to speak her mind, too quick many times, but her dogged attempts to discipline her own temperament could go too far.

Explaining that she discovered he was an incorrigible drunk with a life long reputation, she describes her dogged attempts to help him reform.

Now his only contacts with former associates were his dogged attempts to get back and burn all copies of his book, though there may still have been some blackmailing and plain begging.

Until then it remains on loan to the Fürth museum in acknowledgment of Dr. Purin's dogged attempt to track down the owners.

An adoptee, she's Chinese by birth, and her dogged attempts to fit the mold of California girlhood (she was even the school mascot for a while) masked a profound alienation.

I'd like to bet that Mr Kitson had been guddling for ages inside her with his big rough hands in a dogged attempt to bring that head and those legs out together.

Kelly eventually leaves Power and returns to his family's settlement, where he is shown making dogged attempts to live an honest lifestyle.