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Example sentences for: pursuit

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Although they were expected to handle large caseloads almost immediately, they were also freer to pursue an issue area and develop themselves professionally through that pursuit.
Although it is the presenter who has ultimate control in the encounter--a control he may legitimate in terms of the interests of the “listeners out there,” their right to be entertained and to be protected from offensive views--the listeners who call in may challenge the norms he lays down in various ways, from dogged pursuit of a “personal relationship” with the presenter to equally dogged resistance to the “containment strategies” presenters employ.
While often couching their critiques in language that assails the pursuit of perfection, what they really are attacking is the far more oft-expressed—albeit far less lofty—desire to improve or enhance a particular behavior or trait by the application of emerging biomedical knowledge in genetics, neuroscience, pharmacology, and physiology.
An essay by Mother Teresa basher Christopher Hitchens likens the nun to Princess Di: Both used the poor and sick as "accessories" in "the service and the pursuit of the rich and powerful."
A major newspaper is supposed to be a team effort, a nonideological pursuit of the objective truth.