(a.) Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting.
(a.) Performed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, assiduous labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence, this particular family illustrates the great importance of obtaining a detailed, accurate family history and of assiduous follow-up of the entire family.
(2) For years Rupert Murdoch has poured his anti-BBC poison into the ears of his readers, viewers, and the politicians who pay him such assiduous court.
(3) He gives credit to Gøtzsche for his assiduous work over many years to get to the truth.
(4) He is instead, assiduously effective, notable above all for his peripheral vision and awareness of space, the ability to play not just the pass before a goal but the pass before the pass that makes a goal, qualities that do not so much leap out as emerge, once again, by stealth.
(5) Shelagh Delaney's A Taste Of Honey (1959) was "about as true to Lancashire as anything ever written by Ivor Novello about Ruritania," though no one believed that Shulman had set foot in that county, or understood his reason for being such a loud and assiduous notetaker at opening nights.
(6) But during his own years in the House Balls has worked the back-benches assiduously, diligently touring round constituency dinners on damp Friday nights.
(7) First, the Independent's target readers are sophisticated and assiduous internet users.
(8) The next step is not Read more Since then Labor has been assiduous in appearing in lockstep with the Coalition on asylum seeker policy.
(9) At one level it's very gentle and quite jolly; at another, if continued assiduously, it means they are after you.
(10) If only the future London mayor had prepared a little more assiduously for a house debating competition when he was on Dixon’s team at school – they lost – Dixon may have pulled his punches.
(11) Considering he does not turn 19 until November things are happening rather fast for a Bristol-raised teenager who has already been the subject of assiduous courting from both England and Jamaica.
(12) In the performance of end-to-end jejunoileal shunt, operative mortality can be nearly eliminated and late deaths largely prevented by assiduous care and follow-up.
(13) In recent years, China has worked assiduously behind the scenes to weaken international human rights institutions and publicly rejected international criticism of the political repression of its citizens.
(14) The acrid taste left by the election was heightened by the US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks which revealed Amano's assiduous courting of American support .
(15) His lack of ego endeared him to the maths community: he brought out the wonder in their subject, and was also assiduous in crediting all the academics and puzzlists who contributed ideas.
(16) The good postural stability of the shooters apparently results from assiduous training aimed to improve postural stability.
(17) He added: "The air cargo industry has obviously been aware for many years of the potential for terrorists to attempt to use or attack freight-only flights, and has worked assiduously with law enforcement and security agencies to provide a security regime that will prevent this from happening.
(18) One group had undergone early (mean age, 3.0 months) myringotomy with placement of tympanostomy tubes, followed by assiduous monitoring and an aggressive treatment program to maintain ventilation in the middle ear.
(19) He craved a smile as assiduously as he would avoid a left hook, and so natural was he in front of a microphone that he often reduced his inquisitors to silent witnesses, most famously Michael Parkinson, whose interviews with Ali are the stuff of legend.
(20) None had obvious underlying cardiac disease or iatrogenic fluid overload, and in all an assiduous search for underlying cardiovascular disease was launched.
Painstaking
Definition:
(a.) Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive.
(n.) The act of taking pains; carefulness and fidelity in performance.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper employs a rhetorical form designed to clarify and sharpen the focus of the very special stance required--which must be painstakingly learned under careful supervision--in order to effectively tune in to communications coming from the unconscious of the patient.
(2) The curators Pickering and Kaus have painstakingly trawled through the records that may accompany bones for clues.
(3) The prime minister, with her acute sensitivity and loyalty to Tory-inclined social groups, believed, probably with good reason, that a giveaway would enrage homeowners who had painstakingly saved for deposits and paid off mortgages.
(4) And in the social media era every single facet of Who is analysed in painstaking detail on an internet that breeds strongly held and not always generous opinions.
(5) On the second anniversary of their optimistic opening coalition press conference in the rose garden at Downing Street, Cameron and Clegg chose the stark symbolism of a tractor factory floor in Basildon to rededicate the coalition to its central painstaking work of rebalancing the economy and tackling the deficit.
(6) By itself, the recognition that we have common hopes and dreams won't end all the gridlock, resolve all our problems or substitute for the painstaking work of building consensus and making the difficult compromises needed to move this country forward.
(7) It is an outgrowth of good science, painstakingly investigated, and meticulously executed.
(8) Another historian, David Anderson , professor of African politics at Oxford, said the files showed that one European settler, Jack Hopcraft, painstakingly documented the abuses perpetrated against his employees and that colonial officials chose to ignore him.
(9) Slowly and painstakingly, the Cadenas managed to erect basic walls that separate them from neighbours and to fence off a balcony that drops 70m down.
(10) An insight in the genesis of anorectal abnormality, combined with a painstaking diagnostic examination leading to a justifiable, well-considered therapeutic procedure, may spell hope and better prospects to approximately 35 children that are born with this abnormality in The Netherlands each year.
(11) It's tempting to see all this layering as a painstaking effort on Green's part to understand her husband's death, but it's clear she sees it more as an expression of the absence of meaning that has resulted from it, the wild and whirling words of grief.
(12) The convenience and sensitivity of the fluorimetric assay based on the QF-ERP7 moiety offers several advantages compared with previously described painstaking procedures for endooligopeptidase A activity measurements, what will certainly contribute to further our understanding of the role of this enzyme on the peptide hormone metabolism.
(13) He went through a painstaking reconstruction of the plane's emergency landing after Abdulmutallab set off his device.
(14) Disrupting the terrorists is a painstaking process with much careful preparation, and then sudden rapid activity.
(15) Appropriate administration of oral anticoagulation requires painstaking laboratory and therapeutic control, the former being based on continuous quality assessment and strict standardization of the prothrombin time.
(16) He’s falsely believed that slogans, rather than painstaking explanations, would convince people to accept his policies.
(17) In painstaking and at times horrifying detail, Alexis Jay, the professor whose inquiry investigated the sexual exploitation of children over 16 years in Rotherham , has set out the alarming scale and heartbreaking individual instances of the abuse that began in the early 1990s.
(18) The traces left on the body to all intents and purposes embrace a cultural "cul de sac" which risks being defrauded of most of its content by a lack of those propedeutics elements which painstaking reflection is capable of affording us.
(19) Watts, who was born in Britain and moved to Australia at the age of 14, said she painstakingly researched the role by watching old interviews and reading biographies.
(20) A direct approach to the general public via the mass media and painstaking search of hospital records proved to be the most effective methods.