Through sheer perseverance, it is being rebuilt.

What the Lakers lost in talent, they have apparently made up for in sheer perseverance.

Others think Mr. Jackson's sheer perseverance will keep him aloft.

But he managed to achieve them, through sheer perseverance.

Friends and sheer perseverance got the novelist through his years of desire, poverty and thwarted ambition.

In a sport dominated by the preadolescent girls that become its stars every Olympic year, Wilson has stood out for sheer perseverance.

It cannot be repeated too often that the main ingredient required by anyone wishing to learn to fly model helicopters is sheer dogged perseverance!

But Mr. Welch, who is 32, also attributes his quick success to sheer perseverance.

When they wanted to find someone, those boys had more contacts, sources, determination, and sheer perseverance than the FBI.

"We've never not gone business class - just by sheer perseverance and trying to use the system."