But he stuck with it doggedly, and his progress was easy to see.
Instead, he has stuck doggedly to his plan of persuading voters that things could be better.
Helms has stuck doggedly to a single issue: drugs.
Sister disregarded her raving and stuck doggedly to the point.
This is not a matter of sticking doggedly to a particular diet, but also of looking at your eating habits.
But he has stuck to his walking doggedly while his friends have taken up fitness fads and dropped them.
He sticks doggedly to what is right for this country and that determination is what will win in 2015, if not before.
What voters got instead was an earnest, courtly and slightly wooden candidate, who stuck doggedly to his script.
Max had stuck doggedly to his story.
The State Physician doggedly stuck by his position.