Sentence examples for sedulously to from inspiring English sources

And although Mr Olmert is at least the prime minister of a functioning state, he governs in coalition with men who hate the very idea of an independent Palestine and have worked sedulously to tie his hands.

On peace being established, Franklin turned his attention once more to the scientific branch of his profession, as affording scope for his talents, and having made his wishes known to Sir Joseph Banks, who was generally consulted by government on such matters, he set himself sedulously to refresh his knowledge of surveying.

D is sedulously set to zero to meet the boundary condition (E (ΔT) = 0, if ΔT = 0).

I will be sedulously faithful to a shameful memory".

She had been trying so sedulously not to want anything too much.

"I 'know' it because the poem itself sedulously refuses to pose a question, frame a conclusion … The feel is of something broken off, bitten back … the rhetorical figure that gestures towards something by looking away".

More irritating to me are the know-it-all remarks of my sedulously lapsed acquaintances to the effect that Lieberman doesn't wear a yarmulke in the workplace, and that his wife doesn't cover her hair, as though these practices would in any way disqualify him from being a member in good standing of his synagogue.

If they defy the government so sedulously that the government has to sue them to enforce the law, they'll endlessly argue their case in the public sphere in the run up to any case, and, eventually, fight in court.

Yet, to those undaunted few who have sedulously fought China's great digital firewall for the freedom to demand democracy and judge events like Tiananmen for themselves, the work of their fellow citizens in Hong Kong must feel like an act of kinship.

Habits, skills, and beliefs are sedulously built from simple behavioral units to longer behavioral sequences that come under the control of environmental stimuli (stimulus control) as reinforcers are delivered in some situations and not in others [ 17, 91- 93].

Hammett's fat man has no personal history to explain away his archetypal grandeur; Gores sedulously equips his archvillain with a back story, which diminishes him to a small-time grifter who's gotten above his raising: "My old man was a tent-show minister in the Midwest...