Biggert says she strongly favors basic research over applied efforts.
He's supposed to prove each one with a tap from a metal rod, but the sports pages – and his dream of becoming a speedway racer – prevent him from applying himself too assiduously to that task.
Think about which concepts you would like to apply most assiduously to your negotiations and actively practice them, both at work and at home.
And there are indications that capacity discipline, which has so fundamentally reshaped the domestic market, is now being applied more assiduously to international markets.
He soon realised that the Pakistani people had an appetite for the ghazal, so he applied himself assiduously to the study of Urdu, particularly Urdu poetry.
In Distin, Moyes might have found a player who restores the conviction that successful teams can be built with the kind of vigilance and prudence that he applies so assiduously at Goodison.
The England captaincy has become a public relations exercise and, while Beckham applied himself assiduously to the PR bit, about the only time he showed genuine leadership on the field was when he almost singlehandedly dragged England to automatic qualification for the last World Cup in the 2-2 drawithth Greece at Old Trafford.
Mr Straw told the BBC: "As I've made repeatedly clear, I applied myself assiduously to the legal obligations on me, which were above all to ensure that people's human rights were observed and that any action I took was within the law.
The texts contain frequent invocations to the learning "brethren" – that is, the elect who are studying the sciences – that enhance their didactical and exhortative style; these invocations mean that the students will be awakened "from the sleep of matter and the negligence of ignorance" if they apply themselves assiduously to study "with the assistance (ta'yyid) of a spirit coming by God".
Repeatedly urged by the demanding Leroy to "Let it go!" (a real mission impossible considering the technical demands of dancing Odile), the browbeaten Nina applies herself assiduously to her own sexual liberation.
Knowing they were being monitored and tracked in public, municipal workers also applied themselves more assiduously to their tasks.
