Similar words: pursue, pursuit, pursuant, pursuing, suede, purse, jodhpurs, sue. Meaning: [pər'suː /pə'sju-] n. a person who is being chased. adj. followed with enmity as if to harm.
Random good picture Not show
181. The conclusion of the policy being pursued at present is that eventually everybody will be subsidising nearly everybody's housing.
182. It is only to be regretted that the Committee has not pursued this policy with sufficient boldness and consistency.
183. In the phases of large-scale antislavery mobilisation within Britain these two purposes were pursued simultaneously, though sometimes using different printed materials.
184. The fighters quickly pursued them and eventually shot down every one in a running battle.
185. But in the final instance, these short-run goals are pursued with a green glinted eye focused on long-run profitability.
186. The path pursued particularly matched the clergy's vision of the profanity of towns and sacrality of rural life.
187. Strategies that ensure the modernisation of manufacturing, distribution and the minimisation of overhead costs will continue to be pursued vigorously.
188. Although the government has pursued hazards reduction research for decades, it has been taken more seriously in the last few years.
189. It was confirmed last night that the idea of privately-run detention centres was being pursued within the Home Office.
190. The theme of decentralisation is one that is pursued further in the Next Steps Initiative.
191. In the first London stage production, Sweeney pursued Doris with a razor, and her screams were heard offstage.
192. She is pursued by Mr Lillyvick, whom she marries, but soon deserts him for a retired naval captain.
193. These changes, appropriately pursued, could also bring large long-term reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide and other environmental impacts.
194. Both the top and bottom doors were flung back and the great war horse had apparently galloped away pursued by grooms.
195. Entering the University of Dundee, he graduated with first-class honours in history in 1975, and then pursued postgraduate study.
196. As the demonstrators retreated, they were pursued by fire tenders which doused everything in sight. Sentencedict.com
197. This would help ensure the poorer countries did not repeat the environmental mistakes of the northern hemisphere as they pursued economic development.
198. The president himself ordered studies of the feasibility of tougher policies than had been been pursued under Truman against the Soviet bloc.
199. Azapo also rejected the suggestion of an all-party conference, and denied having pursued any contacts with the government.
200. The craft of writing, the business of publishing, the great mystery of literary success remained to be pursued.
201. None the less, sales promotion was, in the early years of shortages, pursued in a restrained way.
202. The government also pursued policies designed to encourage a commercial ethos in the remaining public enterprises.
203. Many councils have investigated, and some have actually pursued, such policies of privatisation, or contracting out.
204. Pursued there and besieged, they fled by night to raise a loyal army, but found it pitiful in numbers.
205. One of its objectives was the reform of the London College, which it pursued in a generally persuasive and constructive way.
206. The desire for advertising revenue, if pursued too vigorously, might well put those aims at risk.
207. Rank was a businessman who pursued a grander vision than Isidore Ostrer or John Maxwell had ever done.
208. They had pursued it through the maze of backstreets until unaccountably losing it in a cul-de-sac.
209. In the South, the church hierarchy pursued the path of full cultural control.
210. A young girl with a carrier bag pushes her way through the crowd as if she was being pursued.