Deputy First Minister John Swinney has claimed “assiduous” efforts are being made to close the £100 million hole in the Scottish Government’s budget – warning that some “minor” spending pledges could be delayed.

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23304666.john-swinney-warns-minor-spending-pledges-delayed-budget/?ref=rss

DeSantis has been mocked for imitating Trump’s gestures (the accordion hands and the O-shaped thumb/index finger sign) but he’s been just as assiduous in adopting Trump’s moral indecency.

Source: https://time.com/6284114/ron-desantis-cant-out-trump-trump/

The three biggest upheavals in British politics – Thatcher in 1979, Blair in 1997 and Salmond in 2007 – came about after several years of assiduous wooing of the public and interest groups such as the business community by the leadership.

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23405809.letters-reports-death-snp-greatly-exaggerated/?ref=rss

With this, Jesus nails down a practice that the Catechism of the Council of Trent similarly pastors to be “assiduous” in “stirring”: “Meditate frequently on the sufferings I have undergone for your sake.”

Source: https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/benedict-xvi-last-advice