Despite being in control of a recession-proof funding mechanism, which should theoretically be of comfort to indies in a downturn, the BBC is being forced to cut back spending and is dogged by political pressure at every turn.
And then there was his dogged and determined pressure on President Roosevelt to bring the U.S. into World War II.
The following year, 1918, he became increasingly immersed in laboratory work, but he was also dogged by peer pressure to enlist in the military, which he saw as a distasteful prospect.
And though Mr. Putin this week reaffirmed his commitment to a free press and to building civil society, his administration has been dogged by incidents of pressure and intimidation that have called that commitment into question.
"If you can kill someone like [Klebnikov], in the streets of Moscow, what can we think will happen to some little journalists?" The Kremlin, dogged by criticism of putting pressure on the Russian media, maintains that any such pressure is because it cannot operate without corporate funding.
Poots is currently the subject of severe pressure for his dogged pursuit of homophobic policies.
His progress was dogged by funding cuts and pressure from his establishment critics, who succeeded in closing the school in 1979, and continued to hound him in subsequent teaching jobs.
The press dogged the heels of Puccini, Belasco and Toscanini.
Her account of Kennedy's struggles in Iowa captured the pressure and expectations that dogged him: Most Presidential candidates take some time working out their themes and applause lines, largely out of sight of the press….
