He was an assiduous tennis player, and a good footballer - but more, he was a great cricket fan and player.
"I would like to thank the assiduous players of the national team and coaching team who delighted the hearts of the nation and surprised everyone with their fair and enthusiastic play against the national football team of Argentina".
A man bent on realizing his ideas, he was an assiduous planner, and, once he enjoyed President Eisenhower's complete confidence, policy planning flourished during his administration.
He was an assiduous MP, a fair-minded, kindly, brave man who was proud to call himself a democratic socialist.
At a personal level, he was also a man of great personal charm, an assiduous diarist and writer, and a devoted husband, father and grandfather.
Unlike Sarkozy, famous for absorbing a complicated brief as he walks to a meeting, Merkel is an assiduous worker and normally the best-prepared person in the room.
He was a king who loved peace, an assiduous manager of public affairs, and above all a fosterer of the Christian religion".
None of it shields the fact that he is an assiduous theologian and a stern traditionalist.
In Turkey he is both a literary, difficult author, and a teller of absorbing whodunnits; a European-influenced stylist and an assiduous miner of Turkish history.
Brock earned a reputation during his early education on Guernsey as an assiduous student, as well as an exceptional swimmer and boxer.
He become an assiduous evangelist of such a diet among the metropolitan classes in London.
