Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrest and exile to the remote city of Gorky (now called Nizhni Novgorod) made him a martyr. His refusal to be silenced even in banishment added to his legend. And then came the rousing finale: his release and hero's return to Moscow in 1986; his relentless prodding of Mikhail Gorbachev to pursue democratization; and his election to the Congress of People's Deputies, the Soviet Union's first democratically chosen body. At the time of his death, a tidal wave of democracy that he had helped create was about to engulf the communist world...
...what Bush will perhaps be best remembered for by close friends and strangers alike is his relentless pursuit of a good time...
Jackson, this year's Kennedy School of Government Class Day speaker, has inspired in some observers--among them many intellectuals and career politicians--a vicious and unwavering disdain for what they see as his relentless, sometimes even violent, pursuit of the spotlight...
...most frequent criticisms leveled at Jackson centers upon his relentless, even violent, pursuit of the spotlight...
Faced with a relentless barrage of criticism from top Democrats, defections from some wavering Republicans and continuing outrage against guns from the public in the aftermath of the Littleton massacre, Senate Republican leaders staged an extraordinary retreat on Thursday. Following a blast from President Clinton saying there "was simply no excuse" for not passing a bill more closely controlling gun sales at gun shows, suddenly nervous Republicans scrambled to do just that. The latest maneuvering followed a set of mostly partisan votes late Wednesday in which the Senate had opted for a loose, Republican-backed voluntary background check for sales...