Sentence examples for dogged certainty from inspiring English sources

More and more people were coming to believe that chance rather than providence guided human affairs, and that dogged certainty led to violence.

Horowitz writes that despite these changes, one of the academic certainties is that the problems which had dogged the court for the last two centuries persisted; Observations on the Dilatory and Expensive Proceedings in the Court of Chancery, written in 1701, listed 25 different procedures, areas and situations which contributed to the problems of high fees and slow processes.

The certainty of relegation is infinitely preferable to the lack of clarity that has dogged them for four years.

"They just dogged it".

The pursuit was dogged.

Violence dogged him.

Then controversy dogged her.

Inventors are dogged.

"She's dogged".

Her mother was dogged.

Fowler dogged it out.