But patience isn't a skill that we hone quite as assiduously as French parents do.
Likud whips this week were assiduously rehearsing the old saw about hanging together or hanging alone.
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Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy were plodding, risk-averse and assiduously Swiss companies that often got trounced by faster, fiercer U.S. rivals.
Perhaps most tellingly, no nation is pursuing aircraft carriers more assiduously than China.
They have assiduously avoided the sins of Netscape, which belligerently jeered at Microsoft's efforts to build a Web browser.
Although a staunch monarchist, Witte assiduously and adroitly cultivated American and foreign reporters.
In short, it is clear that the Sandinistas have worked assiduously to ensure that the coming election legitimizes their rule.
Meanwhile, smaller companies are assiduously taking steps to avoid proxy fights if only because they can ill afford the cost.
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He assiduously cultivates Russians: he has made at least a dozen glad-handing visits to Russian provinces since early last year.
She prepares assiduously for everything she does in public and knows exactly what's expected of her and where her limits are.
Mr Morsi has shown further fealty by assiduously attending military ceremonies and inviting the top brass to a fast-breaking Ramadan dinner.
It was precisely in the interests of advancing that ambition that the Russians assiduously opposed the deployment of the Third Site.
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The student, on her own, would assiduously avoid any patterns or repetitions.
Lee as a fearless intelligence officer whose assiduously documented and generally correct views often brought him at odds with the intelligence establishment.
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But those associated with it, in this country at least, are assiduously secretive about their connections to Imam Gulen or his enterprise.
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Xinhua compiles such statistics assiduously to measure the impact of its work.
The aim is to cut through the clutter--and, though most TV executives won't admit it, to reach fidgety viewers who zap ads assiduously.
He is assiduously courting the Americans and Europeans, both a tad leery of his (and his country's) enthusiasm for freeing up farm trade.
There are few companies which, over so long, have so assiduously hired the kind of people who would be in thrall to one man.
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Amy Jewell, who was sitting on the front row assiduously taking notes, decides she has probably got better things to do with her time.
Business school deans, particularly in America, have been assiduously e-mailing alumni around the world in search of help in finding jobs for their students.
But if you have the right skills and pursue opportunities assiduously, it can be a powerful way to accelerate your career and make a contribution.
To avoid gridlock, Mr Noda intends assiduously to court the LDP.
State securities regulators, at-will employees trained to stay clear of political quagmires and state Attorneys General, who are elected, have assiduously avoided investigating public pension abuses.
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One reason for the new plenty is that Italians seem to be paying their taxes more assiduously, in the face of more sophisticated and computerised tax collection.
In other words, those lawyers and judges who created, implemented and so assiduously enforced the FISA guidelines were wrong and the American people paid dearly for it.
Yet western diplomats, in particular, were quick to declare the affair a body-blow to Mr Khatami, who has worked assiduously to improve Iran's relations with the West.
The persuasion includes the promise of generous compensation for countries that Iraq has been assiduously wooing with gifts of cheap oil and thoughts of future, lucrative contracts.
This is why Czech President Vaclav Havel has been assiduously trying to tie his country to the West and the U.S. in any and every way he can.
Most relevant to the present strategic decision, he repeatedly and assiduously asserted in 1990 that economic sanctions were the appropriate policy response to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
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