She kept at it through her sophomore and junior years.
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I kept at it, catching Diesel's reflection in the mirror.
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We kept at it for eighteen months—you, me, and him.
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We were on the right path now and kept at it.
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So I kept at it every night, usually managing around 3,000 words.
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But Amazon has kept at it, and with good reason, Farhad writes.
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Again, I kept at it— and started getting sober stretches in there.
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Still, I kept at it, moving much more slowly through the levels.
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He was determined to not let that passion go, and kept at it.
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But the doctor kept at it, and finally Michael thought, Maybe he's right.
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But he kept at it and took encouragement from his most supportive followers.
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And they kept at it, through the discovery of genes and many other advances.
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I think I told him he would be arrested if he kept at it.
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And he kept at it until it was polished and ready to see daylight.
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Binette only kept at it because she had an aunt who encouraged her — coach Eveline.
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He did, however, love writing stories, so he kept at it, despite the early failures.
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On Monday, Mr. Trump kept at it, complaining on Twitter that Mr. Khan "viciously attacked" him.
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A family paid him $1,000 for 10 days of work, and then he kept at it.
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But he kept at it, producing a string of papers with findings that supported the hypothesis.
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If I started a company, I saw it through the hard times and kept at it.
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But Harris kept at it, encouraging Warren to say it's time to oust the president from Twitter.
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He could have just withdrawn, but he kept at it and I give him props for that.
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We put a lot of pressure on ourselves but we worked really hard and kept at it.
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At first she refused, but he kept at it until she "gave in" (her words, not mine).
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"They played well as they have in awhile, but we kept at it and grinded it," Casey said.
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So I gathered myself and kept at it, for as much of the song as I could remember.
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Apparently, the guy kept at it while Chris was in a DJ booth, and CB allegedly lost it.
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Discovering that the purchase came with a liquor license, he found himself a bartender and kept at it.
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The outlines were satisfying to me, and so I kept at it, beginning to fill the drawing in.
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They were insistent and I didn't mind because I respected people who didn't back down and kept at it.
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The third baseman felt otherwise, and he and Carson kept at it and ultimately Arenado left Coors Field content.
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"At first, it sounded like shit, but I just kept at it until I got better," he says, laughing.
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I started doing music at the age of 22 and kept at it until I was 43 or 24.
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Ms. Kwak's was not the take-it-or-leave-it approach of 32nd Street, and she kept at it.
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She kept at it, following the publication of "Housekeeping," with one of the more interesting silences in American letters.
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"There was room to do only one thing, but it was successful so I've kept at it," she said.
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We are grateful for the poet who kept at it until he created one of America's greatest national treasures.
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They kept at it over the following weeks, documenting their exploits on Instagram and getting a lot of likes.
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He kept at it during his undergrad and graduate years with some a capella, some barbershop, and some light opera.
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I kept at it, and soon I was hearing approving words like "bene" and "perfetto" from the gang of grandmothers.
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He has kept at it faithfully over the years, even though he moved out of the neighborhood a while ago.
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Day after day she'd train, running the 400 over and over again and wondering why on earth she kept at it.
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Many watchmakers never recovered or are now a husk of their former glory – Hamilton, for example – but Timex kept at it.
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But I kept at it, trusting my mom when she said it would get easier and that you got more comfortable.
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Anchorman Douglas Edwards, a pioneer in national television news, anchored the influential evening broadcast and kept at it for 14 years.
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I was learning techniques that I would continue to build on, and I kept at it for a decade or so.
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Mr. De Laine began organizing the parents of Clarendon County in 1947 and kept at it for the next seven years.
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The femcee kept at it though, partaking in freestyle cyphers and battle raps, until eventually ... broke through the mainstream in 2019.
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While Annie reported on people who had gone looking for naloxone, and contacted pharmacy chains, activists and officials, I kept at it.
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But as Tim was just saying, it didn't get the result that some of the Republicans wanted, so they kept at it.
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" He and Goldsmith kept at it, testing and adjusting the growing regimen until they had "perhaps the finest commercial strawberry ever developed.
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At first, he found the language nearly impossible to understand, but he had nothing else to do, so he kept at it.
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His first was rejected, but he kept at it, returning to Talent Associates twice a week for tutoring from a story editor.
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And the trolls didn't quit after the votes were counted — they doubled down and kept at it to resounding success, researchers said.
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Though he was eventually fired by Mr. Robertson — "probably because it was a terrible screenplay," Mr. Goldman later said — he kept at it.
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What Blanche had was her work, and she kept at it even as her health deteriorated and she went half blind with glaucoma.
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I kept at it, though, even though both our Sims kept trying to escape the conversation to play video games (honestly, also accurate).
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Egged on by my friends, I kept at it for four to five minutes and then finally he started to move his eyes, slowly.
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" On Tuesday, Mr. Erdogan kept at it, giving a speech in which he said that in standing by the putschists, the West supported "terrorism.
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The effort fell short at the time—but he's kept at it and, in the aftermath of El Paso and Dayton, he's trying again.
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But Will liked the theme and other entries, so I kept at it, aiming more for "chuckle value" in the theme answers than complexity.
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Since dyeing my hair apparently made me "less Asian" and, the implication went, whiter, I kept at it, bleaching my scalp raw for years.
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Trump kept at it on Twitter, until basically campaigning for Moore at a rally in Pensacola, Florida — near the Alabama border — on Friday night.
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There were people in class who were on TV, and I thought, Oh my God, this could be possible, so I kept at it.
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Her work was not honored for a long time in the way that many of her peers were, but she just kept at it.
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He kept at it long past the age when most people retired and kicked back, a steady presence in a rapidly changing media landscape.
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As research for a novel, sure, but I kept at it long after the research for the novel could have come to an end.
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He kept at it, playing in a dance band in the Catskills for a time and entering New York University as a music major.
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But Smith, whose predilection for recording eventually developed into something like a mania, started shooting and taping, and kept at it for almost a decade.
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She was so determined to write for a living that she kept at it, even after the first four novels she had written were turned down.
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But the reporters kept at it, and their persistence was rewarded, albeit in a small way, when Ryom responded to a question about how she felt.
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Even Kerouac told Mr. Lord to stop submitting it, but Mr. Lord kept at it, and finally got an offer from Viking for a $900 advance.
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It took a long time to feel that I knew enough to write it, and so I let months go by as I kept at it.
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They kept at it for ten minutes or so, until they had a couple of different melodic ideas, which they texted to Shod to work on.
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Mr. Lacy said he kept at it because he saw a chance to broaden Meredith's digital audience and add balance to a roster heavy on lifestyle titles.
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I didn't make it into NYCC the first year or two I applied either, but kept at it and did other events until my work matched up.
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He kept at it to the end, promising to "bedevil the Democrats" with Republican-friendly voting districts shortly after receiving a likely fatal medical diagnosis in 2016.
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"I had to honor him and his commitment, that he just kept at it," said Mr. Carlson, who is 59 and a musician, carpenter and music teacher.
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My older brother arrived a couple hours before we ate; he was already pretty drunk and he kept at it, drinking wine, beer, and whatever he could find.
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But I kept at it: For two weeks I spent at least 20 minutes a day scrambling my cube and solving it the way Mao had taught me.
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He kept at it, he said, crisscrossing the state with an aide at the wheel of his black Chevy Suburban, because he knew what he wanted to accomplish.
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Many of these millionaires achieved that goal the tried-and-true way: They started investing when they were young and kept at it the rest of their career.
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Mr. Choi kept at it, picking up pattern-making and sewing skills at the factory and learning about design while selling fabrics at a wholesale market in Seoul.
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So I just kept at it, but I think it did help that I always knew I had this fallback of a magazine career, and I've always kept writing.
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The networks that defined IRC back in the day, mainly EFnet and Undernet, are still online, even if they've perhaps kept at it thanks to their old-school charm.
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Those we've lost Mr. Obey was a veteran school principal who took to marathoning and kept at it — 231 times in a row in the New York City Marathon.
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And I just kept the dream alive, just working hard, practicing, trying to figure out what was wrong and be smart about it as well and just kept at it.
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Still, even after the park occupations had ended, working groups like Occupy the SEC kept at it, taking the change-it-yourself ethic of Occupy into places where activists are rare.
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He must have felt he had something special within his grasp because even after the play's copyright holders withdrew the adaptation rights (they were restored a decade later) he kept at it.
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But Howe, who learned the game on the frozen ponds of Saskatchewan, could do it all, and he kept at it after his hair had turned silver and he had become a grandfather.
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Over the last few days, I called a number of people who've been hooked to Twitter this year to ask why they kept at it, and whether they may stop after the election.
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Most have since given up due to the high costs and defect rates, but smaller equipment makers in the supply chain have kept at it, largely helped by growing sales to Samsung and LG Display.
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But CEO Jack Dorsey seems to endorse the notion: Twitter started playing around with the idea in September, when Dorsey was interim boss, and has kept at it since he took the title for good.
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He kept at it as the censorship screws tightened, writing even last year about a businessman who was seeking compensation for wrongly serving seven years in prison after himself being swindled by a provincial police chief.
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While that meeting didn't seem to change things, Trump kept at it with Paul -- understanding, rightly, that an unfavorable report out of the Foreign Relations committee could endanger Pompeo's chances at confirmation by the full Senate.
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Though he had doubts, and wore out his office carpet with anxious pacing, he kept at it: not just because expectations would leap back up if he relented, but because persistence was a virtue in itself.
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But she kept at it, and her and Ben's efforts started a chain of events that, last fall, led the state's attorney's office to dismiss the convictions of fifteen men who had been arrested by Watts's team.
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White was a photographer and aviator who captured some of the first aerial views of the city in 1921 and kept at it, producing countless images of New Zealand from above as well as from the ground.
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He's certainly still capable of competing at the highest level, and as one of the game's most consistently exciting fighters, it would be to the benefit of every fight fan on earth if he kept at it.
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"For a half-hour on a Saturday, when most everyone else had prepped enough and moved on, Brees kept at it: a new play, how the defense might react and reactions and adjustments at game speed," said Strief.
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But he kept at it, and this session (finally working with a Democratic majority in both houses), he shepherded through a range of ambitious bills on clean electricity, clean buildings, electric vehicles, banning hydrofluorocarbons, and boosting energy efficiency standards.
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The difference between the approaches of Reagan and Trump is that Reagan kept at it with a sustained message that continued to shine a light on communism's moral bankruptcy — even as he pursued arms control agreements with Mikhael Gorbachev.
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It took a long time to get the songs to a point I was satisfied with to record and release, and the recording was a real journey of sorts, but we kept at it and it's come together nicely.
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Big City Late Monday afternoon, the day after electricity had been restored to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn and heat had returned, protesters kept at it outside the jail, holding banners and banging on pots and chanting and questioning.
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He kept at it, though, improving his game in the D-League and then becoming the darling of the 2015 Las Vegas Summer league, where he helped lead the Spurs to the title with an MVP performance in the Championship Game.
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As for the first point, the French revolutionary terror lasted from June 20073 to July 1794, and claimed more than 16,000 victims, no more than a busy couple of weeks for the Bolsheviks (and imagine if Robespierre had kept at it until 21943).
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We kept at it as we poured into the narrow street outside the pub in a crush of collective effervescence, in which both a strong sense of community spirit and a faintly electric undercurrent of criminality came through, as though anything could happen.
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But he kept at it, riding the Scorchers for whatever they were worth while clocking kiddie-music dollars as Farmer Jason and recording the occasional solo album—check out "Rebel Flag in Germany" and "Tuskegee Pride" on 2004's disgruntled Empire Builders.
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At first it wouldn't budge, but he kept at it till the seal gave and he was able to unscrew it and put his mouth to the warm gurgling flow there, and that made him feel better and pushed the vagueness into another corner of his mind.
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"She said, 'No' — once, twice, three times, four times — and they just kept at it," Ms. Chow said, referring to Ms. Wilson-Raybould's complaint that the prime minister's office relentlessly leaned on her to consider the civil sanction for the company, SNC-Lavalin, accused of bribing Libyan officials to win contracts there.
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Saturday afternoon, he kept at it, using a visit to the CIA headquarters mostly to talk about how great his victory was, and how the "dishonest media" didn't accurately report the size of a crowd for his inauguration that he estimated at 1-1.5 million, but was closer by official estimates to 593,000-250,000.
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Thankfully, she kept at it, and the result is a smart, insightful story about the unique ways in which women need one another, the ways only women are capable of hurting each other, and how a decision you make when you're young can ripple like a bullet through the rest of your life — whether you regret it, or not.
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He kept at it, playing in a dance band during the two years he spent at Colby College in Waterville, Me., and studying music at the University of New Mexico until he joined the Army in World War II. Any thought of playing in an Army band ended when he was assigned to the infantry and sent to Europe.
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But the cholitas kept at it—not for the meager paycheck, which barely covered the costs of matches, but because fighting offered a form of expression unrealized in any other facet of their lives: In society, indigenous women were denied the opportunity to pursue professional careers or higher education until recently, and at home, Bolivia has the highest level of violence against women in all of Latin America.
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And more: There were toys and games, and toys-to-games, and so many names and name changes of its digital units: Disney Online, Disney Interactive, Buena Vista Internet Group, Disney Interactive Studios, Disney Interactive Media Group … Along the way, there were layoffs, lots of them, even as the company kept at it, spending enough money to make Scrooge McDuck scream, as well as placing lots of investment bets.
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Even as the debt piled up and my relationship fell apart, even as more lucrative opportunities fell by the wayside, I kept at it, slogging toward a fading dream, determined to prove to myself that I still had it, that I hadn't lost my mojo, that I hadn't reverted back to the guy I was before the Army, the guy who always gave up, who expected others to shoulder his burdens, who was doomed to fail.
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