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Despite their treatment of others’ cubs, female hyenas can be “very attentive and diligent mothers,” Strauss says.

Why not let the whole thing quietly fade away for want of a diligent investigation?

But as open as they are, they are also businessmen who know their brand and are their best, most diligent marketers.

Ferris credits her books Louisiana Cookery (1954) and New Orleans Cuisine (1969) as exemplars of diligent reporting and research.

“You just have to be diligent in figuring out what they really look like,” El said.

Certainly there are some Asians who have gleefully embraced the image of being the diligent worker bee.

A diligent immigration commission with an appropriation to spend has little time to listen to Joseph.

She had supplied herself betimes with a manual of etiquette, which she had studied with the assiduity of a diligent school-girl.

Did they deride men for being too diligent, for the pleasing of God and saving of their souls?

Cicero (Brutus, 28) speaks of him as an orator of moderate powers, but a diligent student.

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