The phrase "sheer dint" means accomplishing something solely through hard work, effort, and determination, without considering luck or any external factors. Full definition
For his part, Diesel falls back on his usual gravelly monotone, smirking his way through awful dialogue as though he could make it clever by sheer dint of will. (thewrap.com)
By sheer dint of numbers and authority, a particular view tends to predominate for a period. (judithcurry.com)
For one thing, in addition to potentially violating the privacy of Google users and subjecting them to unreasonable searches, one can imagine people being wrongly accused by sheer dint of being tied to a murder scene via cell phone location records. (techcrunch.com)