"Most schools were making a diligent attempt".
White makes a diligent, often delightful, stab at rendering complex subjects and complex times comprehensible.
Jeremy Budd made a diligent if unmemorable Evangelist; Robert Davies's gracious Mache dich was deeply moving.
The next day Josiah "made a diligent and fruitless search for Uncle Whit's (Lieut. Reed's) body".
"I made a diligent effort to sort of educate myself," Mr. Hevesi said, explaining why he was more critical of the Police Department's handling of the issue after talking to black officials.
The rocker in him made a diligent effort: he swore, he stood on his piano, he introduced 2005 tune Photograph as "a song about sex, drugs and living in the West Country", and inserted the words "one cheeky line of cocaine" into I Get a Kick Out of You.
The few names listed above came from a combination of phone calls to community school boards made by a diligent public information official at the central board, a search of several Web sites and the work of one reporter and researchers.
Honest external evaluation of current talent and a system to develop a rich talent pipeline are just two of the areas where diligent board involvement can make a big difference.
"It obviously looks like something I would support, but I made a commitment to be diligent," he said, adding, "There might be parts of it that I want to go further.
