That service hasn't been the achievement of a grand bargain with the White House, which he has at times assiduously sought.
With a national profile clearly in mind, Mr. Modi has assiduously sought to reinvent himself from a scruffy mascot of Hindu nationalism to a decisive corporate-style administrator.
And in response to the crisis of the postwar system, Margaret Thatcher assiduously sought to reconstruct a popular Toryism based on championing "the market" and "enterprise" against statist bureaucracy.
It was Burnett who introduced him to the vast confederacy of American musicians whose company and contributions Costello has so assiduously sought, and whose lineage he has so studiously absorbed.
Nixon assiduously sought possession of his papers, but the cause was subverted by the library's first director, Hugh Hewitt, who announced that he would screen researchers for partisan compatibility; Bob Woodward, Hewitt said, would not be welcome.
Mr. Greenspan has assiduously sought to prepare investors for a return to higher rates, making a series of minute changes in the wording of Fed statements to signal that a change in policy was gradually drawing near.
He has continued engaging with a broad range of Israeli opinions, and has assiduously sought to cultivate what remains of the Israeli peace camp and to engage with Jewish leaders and communities abroad.
Jack Olcott, the president of the National Business Aviation Association, said that the industry had assiduously sought to "change stubborn public perceptions" of luxury corporate jets and their fat-car passengers by promoting the company plane as a cost-efficient, if sometimes expensive, way to increase productivity.
Has there in living memory been a writer whom we (by which I mean the papers, mostly) so assiduously seek out for comment – we task him to review tennis, terrorism, pornography, the state of the nation – and whom we are then so keen to denounce as worthless?
In his book Ally, Oren explains his disillusionment as Obama assiduously sought to undermine Israel while he also undercut moderate Arab nations and peaceful Muslims in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamists.
