During nearly three hours of testimony today, Mr. Crane doggedly defended his department's budget projections in civil, but sometimes pointed, exchanges with the Republicans.

Milan lack a cutting edge, an urgency when a side defends doggedly or our possession is dominant.

Behind these chains are entrenched networks of wholesalers who doggedly defend inefficient supply chains.

So Ms. Stoner doggedly defends her turf.

The opponents of Craig Nelsen's billboard must recognize and, if the need arises, doggedly defend his right to place his billboard.

The commission's current procedure, which it doggedly defended in court in the early 1970's, puts off consideration of some of those questions until construction is nearly finished.

There he doggedly defended the unique housing finance system (based on "units of constant purchasing power" for both savers and borrowers) established in 1972.

Nonetheless, he doggedly defended the progress he has made, insisting that he and the continent's other civilian leaders would prove worthy of their mandates.

Helene doggedly defends his violent behavior, even after he's begun slapping her around as well.

"Which I will show up to a point," replied Syn, doggedly defending.