Youzhny toughed out a 10-minute final game to earn his first win over a top-10 player in more than two years.
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As the story goes, Bush had already toughed out a full slate of diplomatic duties, including a game of tennis with the emperor of Japan.
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Looking back, Boeing probably wishes it had just stuck with the "build a new plane" plan and toughed out a few years of rough sales, rather than ending up in the current situation.
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Liverpool toughed out a 2-23 victory at Salzburg to advance as the winner of Group E and stay on course to defend its title in the competition, the biggest prize in European soccer.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - A 32-year-old former Bible camp cook who lost her home in a wildfire last summer toughed out a last-place finish in Alaska's punishing Iditarod sled-dog race after surviving sled breakdowns and wayward dogs.
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In the quarterfinals of the Italian Open on Friday, Sharapova toughed out a 6-7 (6), 6-513, 7-5 win over the reigning French Open champion, Jelena Ostapenko, closing out the victory on her third match point after 3 hours 22 minutes.
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Najib toughed out criticism in early 2015 over financial mismanagement at the fund - which had racked up debts of about $11 billion - but faced greater pressure when the Wall Street Journal reported in July that almost $700 million in funds had flowed from 1MDB to his personal bank account.
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WEST VIRGINIA 87, KANSAS ST. 83 Jaysean Paige scored 20 of his 231 points after halftime, Tarik Phillip connected on a floater with 4.5 seconds left in the second overtime, and No. 19 West Virginia (12-1, 1-0) toughed out a victory at Kansas State in their Big 12 opener.
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Francis Lee Jaques (September 28, 1887 - July 24, 1969) was an American wildlife painter. Jaques hunted and trapped with his father and connected with editors and writers from major hunting magazines. While still a teenager, Jacques paid ten dollars to buy a taxidermy shop in Aitkin, Minnesota. He toughed out a few winters scarcely earning enough money to survive and bartering paintings to pay for services.
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Williams represented the United States Fed Cup team against Czech Republic and won all her matches. She defeated Iveta Benešová and Klára Zakopalová in straight sets. She toughed out the first set against Benešová and cruised pass the second set, while against Zakopalová it was all cruise control for the American. She also teamed up with sister Venus Williams to defeat Dája Bedáňová and Eva Birnerová dropping just a game.
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In the first round, he beat Marin Čilić for the first time. In the second round, he toughed out a three-sets victory over Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci, followed by a two-sets victory in the third round against Tomáš Berdych. In the quarterfinals, after six successive losses against the Spaniard, he finally defeated Rafael Nadal for the first time in his career. It was his second win over a world No. 1 that year, having earlier defeated then-No.
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After escaping elimination, Ritter led the way into the Championship Finals against defending champs, the UCLA Bruins. Ritter toughed out a 10-inning battle in the third game of the finale series to win the National Championship and the distinction of being the first team east of the Mississippi River to accomplish the feat. She also earned All- Tournament Team honors for her 5-1 record and 60 strikeouts in 54-innings (then a new series record).
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Gaudio started his 2001 in poor fashion, losing his first four matches of the season to Vladimir Voltchkov, former French Open finalist Andrei Medvedev, three-time French Open winner Gustavo Kuerten, and, in his Davis Cup debut, Mexican Bruno Echagaray. Gaudio soon went back to his winning ways, however, reaching the final of Viña del Mar, losing to bitter rival and countryman Guillermo Coria, 6–4, 5–7, 2–6. Gaudio would avenge that defeat to Coria in a hard-fought victory in the quarterfinals of Buenos Aires, which involved both players making rude gestures and insulting each other regularly. After this victory, Gaudio lost in the semifinals to José Acasuso, 3–6, 6–7. In the American hard- court swing after the 2001 Australian Open, he made the quarterfinals of the Miami Masters, losing to 19th seed Jan-Michael Gambill, 6–3, 5–7, 4–6. Along the way, Gaudio dismantled fifth seed Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov, 6–4, 6–1, and toughed out a three-set slugfest against future French Open winner and 12th seed Juan Carlos Ferrero, 6–0, 3–6, 6–3.
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