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Example sentences for: pursuits

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They knew how to get at the truth without any interference from civil libertarians seeking to burden their single-minded pursuits with such as privacy, bodily integrity, fairness, and civility.
A few years later I would present a symposium paper titled Scholarship as Play, saying academic pursuits manifest the human tendency to extend the learning activity of play all the way through adulthood instead of abandoning it after adolescence, as most other mammals do.
While science might appear removed from such politics, many scientists would probably agree that science is in fact a social enterprise, sharing many characteristics with other human pursuits, and that any claim to greater scientific truth can only be accorded over decades, even centuries.
But they also frame the war as an unfortunate expression of a trait that could serve Putin well in other pursuits.
It must be said that the days when every schoolchild was (at least) exposed to classical mythology and the Great Books have been superseded by an obsession with education applicable only to commercial pursuits, the syndrome reflected in, Why do I have to study Chaucer and Shakespeare to become a car mechanic or an astronaut?