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• r  with obstinate determination
  he pursued her doggedly

• Last week homely, rawboned Estes Kefauver, always eager to please, was trudging through California, doggedly intent on the trail of Big Crime.
• But it has also hung on doggedly to its core insight: that the most important function of a social network is connecting people and that its second most important function is .
• At West Point, Richard Shea doggedly set one Academy record after another on the track field: the indoor mile (4:10), and both the indoor and outdoor twomile.

• tenaciously

News & Articles

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• CBS probe finds computer of lead Benghazi reporter was hacked
  CBS News has confirmed a computer of reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who has doggedly pursued the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi terror attacks, was hacked into in late 2012.
  June 14, 2013 - Fox News
• Occupy Mount Tabor Has Some Neighborhood Association Support
  Water politics make strange bedfellows. The news that an Occupy Portland offshoot is planning to camp in a signature park might make a neighborhood association wary—especially when it's a neighborhood association famous for doggedly protecting that park. But one influential member of the Mount Tabor Neighborhood Association is angry enough with the city over its plan to drain the Tabor drinking ...
  June 12, 2013 - Willamette Week
• Schram: Chatter drowns out vital news
  Like yapping terriers doggedly chasing the water stream of a lawn sprinkler as it spins ’round and ’round but never really goes anywhere, the chattering heads on nonstop cable news are still chasing tirelessly after anything new to say about three old miniscandals.
  June 10, 2013 - Ventura County Star

Quotes

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• Robert Gates in Department of Defense
  In addition to fighting America's enemies, Rumsfeld "simultaneously and doggedly pursued an agenda of institutional transformation and reform - grappling with inertia and vested interests like the champion wrestler he once was," Gates said....
• Barack Obama in CNN
  Earl has doggedly pursued waste, fraud and mismanagement [and] has the reputation of being one of the best inspector generals that we have in this town,Obama said. "I can't think of any more tenacious and efficient guardian of the...
• Adam Putnam in Forbes
  We doggedly seek the way through: success in Iraq, security for our allies and everlasting victory for freedom,Putnam said. "This week's discussion should be about the way through, not the way back."