Now the place had a subdued air, as if the party had ended and only the most dogged were hanging around to see what the dawn would bring.

Soon after, Alejandro Nissen, one of the attorney general's most dogged investigators, was suspended without pay.

In 1999, columnist Jack Anderson called Behar "one of the most dogged of our watchdogs."

He held his own during an aggressive cross-examination by Barry Scheck, perhaps the most dogged of Mr. Simpson's lawyers.

The Federation's ideals had been sharply limned by the contrast it drew between itself and its most dogged adversaries.

Anderson himself once praised Behar as "one of the most dogged of our watchdogs"

But he was among the first, and among the most dogged, of those leading the legal assaults on the crumbling fortress of Communism.

Mr. Hastert, Republican of Illinois, United's home state, has been the airline's most dogged political ally, lobbying determinedly for the application's approval.

Many of design's most dogged dogmas concern color: "Paint the ceiling lighter than the walls," for instance.

Even his most dogged Congressional defenders and most loyal former aides are urging him to tell the truth, whatever it is.