bulldogged

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One of the Africans who publicly agreed with Stevenson was Nigeria's earthy, bulldogged Foreign Minister Jaja Wachuku, who noted that the wild, radical charges were not "the only opinion that exists within the African scene."

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The Federal Board took its cues from the State but the final decision on the status of any lot of oil actually rested on a bulldogged, stone-steady gentleman named Captain E. N. Stanley.

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Hughes's bulldogged determination could make things interesting at the end.

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Next day one was still at large in the countryside; the other was bulldogged after he darted into a ball game, tossed two would-be captors, and tried to gore an automobile.

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With my three little traps and a bulldogged determination, I set out to trap Mister Ringtail.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls