Stefanie Dolson (12 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 blocks, 2 steals) trimmed her weight and improved her stamina at center, persevering through the tournament despite a stress fracture in one leg and plantar fasciitis in one foot.
"They excel at concentrating and persevering.
"He wasn't looking for anything astonishing — just doing a little job, and persevering at it.
But Young gravitated toward the event, persevering at first, then enjoying it -- learning how to control his strides and develop the rhythm necessary to carry him across the 10 hurdles that stand about 3 feet, 2 inches high.
Jacobs, a youngster of sorts at 38, persevered in a roughly run mile to win the event for the third straight year.
Hardest of all is whenever you first start something; it's easy to want to give up but this is the very time when you need to be at your strongest about persevering.
At Northwestern, quarterback Dan Persa is persevering in the name of the former coach Randy Walker, who died just after signing Persa to a scholarship.
But when it shows you performing in New York, you're persevering with dignity at a Ramada Inn lounge, sort of hidden away.
Gone were dialogue, choreography, overture and anything else that distracted from Mr. Doyle's goal: to focus on Celie, the persevering black woman at the center of "The Color Purple," Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel that was made into a 1985 film by Steven Spielberg and a musical 20 years later.
Alan Pardew will have beaten the drum again at half-time". Palace are persevering, though... they keep firing in those crosses, to no avail.
