He has made some modest progress, but has endured constant sniping.

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By his own admission, Calzaghe has endured some bad days at his office but the sign of a great sportsman is, whatever his performance, he keeps on winning.

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The 40-year-old has endured some lean years following a knee injury but two wins on the PGA Tour this season suggest he may yet add to his major tally.

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But, you might be surprised to learn what some women endured to win the vote, including being rounded into the Occoquan Workhouse for 60 days of hard labor, forced feeding, instrumental invasion of the body and in the case of Lucy Burns, imprisoned for her stance on suffrage and having her hands chained to the cell bars above her heads and left over night repeatedly.

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But Rice endured, vowing to pursue the majors for as long as some team somewhere would give him a uniform.

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There have been some public order disturbances, but on the kind of scale that Britain has endured many times.

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