"Sontag endeavored to live as Einstein enjoined us: to 'remember your humanity and forget the rest.' She sought assiduously to affirm and to reaffirm the ideas of secularism, reason, libertarianism, internationalism, and solidarity.
Jonson sought assiduously to play a great role on the public stage of his time, as a playwright, poet and general figure of literary renown, and he hoped that posterity would bring even greater glory.
Sometimes soporific, sometimes sensational, the hearings have tried, not always successfully, to peel away layers of obfuscation, confirming what was widely suspected: that British politicians were in almost equal measure resentful and in awe of the power of Mr. Murdoch's media colossus, whose lieutenants sought assiduously to secure access to the inner core of those in power.
The models available to him included his father, a swashbuckling veteran of the American Civil War who made a habit of infidelity and eventually left his wife for good in 1901, when Lewis was 18; and Augustus John, his celebrated predecessor at the Slade, whom he sought assiduously to emulate, and whose ever-varying seraglio became an object of fascination.
Has there in living memory been a writer whom we (by which I mean the papers, mostly) so assiduously seek out for comment – we task him to review tennis, terrorism, pornography, the state of the nation – and whom we are then so keen to denounce as worthless?
The government will try assiduously to court pan-democrat waverers.
"I try assiduously to avoid those thoughts," he said.
But the more assiduously we seek to put the pain and hard-won lessons of this conflict behind us, the more likely we will be to repeat the same mistakes in the next war.
The chairman's letters were not only a reflection of how assiduously politicians seek television parity, but also how decisive convention exposure on the networks is perceived to be.
In each case, we work assiduously to seek the downfall of a regime in power, and in each case, we presume to know that what would come next would be better should we succeed.
That service hasn't been the achievement of a grand bargain with the White House, which he has at times assiduously sought.
