The modern wedding industry, however, has been assiduous in working to establish the trappings of the lavish formal wedding as if they were compulsory rather than optional.
She was punctual, rarely out sick, willing to do night shifts and assiduous in her work habits.
Picador has also been assiduous in encouraging the work of new writers: Richard Meier has just won the inaugural Picador poetry prize.
Still, since their inception, and increasingly during the past year, gigging companies have become the targets of a journalistic genre that used to be called muckraking: admirable and assiduous investigative work that digs up hypocrisies, deceptions, and malpractices in an effort to cast doubt on a broader project.
It also rests on assiduous pastoral work at the local level.
Dr. Sulston is well known for having traced every cell in the C. elegans roundworm, now a standard laboratory organism, from the single cell of the egg to the 959 cells of the adult worm, a 10-year tour de force of assiduous microscope work.
"Junior ministers were assiduous in promoting the importance of protection, including a working group on the prevention of grooming".
Niffenegger has been assiduous in her London research and is clearly keen that none of it should be wasted; she even worked as a tour guide at Highgate Cemetery, as Robert does, and her enthusiasm for it is evident in his version of the tour.
By such small courtesies in the Commons tea rooms and assiduous work on obscure committees did this former sheet-metal worker beat off grander challengers when Betty Boothroyd retired.
He was assiduous in courting conservative intellectuals (including hawkish Democrats).
President Vladimir Putin has been assiduous in cultivating Mr Xi.
