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Example sentences for: pursuit

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Research gradually gave way to the pursuit of pacifist goals in a number of organizations and to the popularization of science.
Conservative Republicans such as Ronald Reagan often criticized Carter for selling out Taiwan in his pursuit of friendship with the PRC.
Its leading proponents are taking advantage of unprecedented political upheaval—as ten new Member States accede to the Union—to press their case for funding of basic research that is driven solely and independently by investigators themselves in the pursuit of excellence.
Thus, Mr. Primakov's active pro-Iraqi diplomacy in the Middle East will be moderated, but Mr. Yeltsin's pursuit of a Chinese rapprochement to offset American influence will proceed at a leisurely pace."
The NYT views the whole quixotic episode as indicative of Weld's ulterior pursuit of some other greater political goal--either a senate or presidential bid down the road--a claim the paper makes both in its news story and in an editorial.