diligence

The reports in the city’s due diligence files only touched the surface of the nearly 50-year-old building’s true condition.

In doing this, the GOP would recruit moderators with “outstanding” reputations for “independence, diligence, and toughness.”

Adopting a foreign child requires persistence, diligence, patience, and a reliance on the slow-turning wheels of justice.

Similarly, if you filed in February (and we hate you) your diligence speaks volumes about your overall responsible nature.

According to one report, their lawyer was disbarred two years after their case was lost for "lack of diligence" in other cases.

Item, I give to my servant John Raby, for his diligence in my service and sickness twenty pounds.

In the Diligence near Utrecht my neighbour roused me by a sudden exclamation, "Oh la vue superbe!"

I am sure that your official superiors do not need to be convinced of your diligence!

But then I ought to be diligent, and at least keep myself within the reach of materials for diligence.

For otherwise the rest would drag, and drop their hands and idle, being quicker to take infection of dullness than of diligence.