The domain of Genghis and his heirs stretched from the Caspian Sea to the Pacific Ocean, and Genghis is said by contemporary historians to have labored assiduously in his large harems.
Once in London, Warburg labored assiduously for an agreement on finance only to find himself sabotaged by other delegates.
All three generations labored assiduously to skew public policy toward the interests of America's wealthiest people and their allies among oilmen, defense contractors, and bankers.
Over the years, Ms. Quinn has assiduously courted labor unions as well as business interests.
But the great kitchens, the ones that inspire hour-long drives and dinnertime haiku, tend to labor over their fragrant goo as assiduously as a French baker might over her baguettes.
They are also the focus of legal complaints by some of the same labor unions whose support Edwards has been assiduously courting for his presidential bid.
The committee chairmen writing the Senate health bill, Max Baucus of Montana and Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, both Democrats, have been assiduously courting business groups and labor unions, consumer groups, doctors, hospital executives and other health care providers.
He convinced himself that he deserved this retribution for the privileges he had enjoyed, and worked assiduously to redeem himself through hard labor.
With the help of his political patrons, State Senators John A. Lynch and Raymond J. Lesniak, Mr. McGreevey locked up the support of the labor leaders and party chairmen he has courted assiduously since 1997 and prevented Mr. Torricelli from gaining endorsements from all seven counties in South Jersey.
Assiduously inconspicuous.
He follows politics assiduously.
