The relief I felt made me aware of how much nagging worry about my work had dogged me as a postdoc.
Another such business is A4e, a welfare-to-work company dogged by controversy over poor performance.
Work was initially dogged by an unacceptably large number of defects in the form of cracks or imperfections in the explosive blocks.
As the expansion of the address system was in the works, Icann was dogged by complaints that it was bowing to the demands of the Internet registry business, which stands to benefit hugely from a surge in new addresses by collecting fees.
However, since the early 1920s the vast oil works have been dogged by erotic interpretations and, despite O'Keeffe's six decades of vigorous denial that her paintings were in any way sexual, it remains a commonly held assumption to this day.
Mr Obama's taboo about deploying American soldiers against IS in Iraq has led to a self-defeating shortage of special forces to guide air strikes to their targets.Desperate measuresThis work is dogged and often thankless.
For the Rangers, who have held the conference lead since Dec. 30 through hard work and dogged effort, it is only the seventh regular-season crown in their 85-year history.
Whitaker's facts don't differ fundamentally from those in Grif Stockley's 2001 account, "Blood in Their Eyes," a work of dogged and indispensable research, but that book became bogged down by the weight of its details.
Many leaders and philosophers say we should end poverty, but through his visionary innovation, tireless hands-on work, and dogged unwillingness to accept it, Dr. Yunus has made ending the cycle of poverty a reality for millions of people around the world, especially millions of women and their children.
Reporting takes a lot of hard work and dogged persistence to uncover the real truth of many stories, and it takes specialized education, training, and experience to be adequately prepared to do the job of creditable reporting, including what the words "next" and "first" mean.
