Possible Clues:

• Keeps trying
• Perseveres and bothers with repetitive strain injury
• A priest's upset about snowstorm initially, but carries on
• Beset by pains, problem for manual workers goes on
• Rung up about relative tracking earliest of Roman remains
• Perseveres in spite of opposition
• After an upset, bug gripping relative endures
• Soldiers on street -- sister and agent heading back
• Obstinately continues appended note about cycling nun
• Fights through adversity