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.
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211. He was last seen staggering out of the house into the street possiblity still being pursued by his assailants.
212. Attractive as that proposition has seemed in recent years, the form in which it has been pursued is fraught with difficulties.
213. The Governors urged that the purchase of the land should be pursued vigorously.
214. This was more or less true, for the simple reason that I have always preferred to be the one pursued.
215. The BMW was hotly pursued by an unmarked police car.
216. That is the policy which we have pursued consistently, with the result that direct taxation has come down substantially.
217. Nymphs, when pursued by satyrs, have saved themselves by turning into trees.
218. When I was younger, I had recurring dreams in which I was constantly pursued by soldiers.
219. But due to other commitments and the very constricted nature of the passage, it was not pursued at the time.
220. It served to prevent the industrial and military expansion pursued during those years from becoming excessively inflationary.
221. Even as Bush talked arms limitations with Gorbachev, he pursued a hard line on defense.
222. Dan Rostenkowski and others who have been pursued by the agency he once worked for.
223. But the form as a whole should be recognized as inimical to protestants, especially when pursued in the arena of politics.
224. The survivors scrambled back to the sepoy lines pursued by a vengeful squadron of Sikh cavalry.
225. He was a strong and greedy monarch who pursued a course of military aggrandisement from the very beginning of his reign.
226. The task of establishing and encouraging national cultural activities was pursued with some vigour by the new ministry.
227. He then pursued a successful career in industry as a personnel director,[www.Sentencedict.com] and built up valuable connections in trade union circles.
228. My Department has vigorously pursued reported delays with the authorities concerned.
229. Laurence Hurst has pursued an obscure hint of a gender-altering parasite among human beings.
230. But the question is not pursued with the same tenacity and intensity as when a child dies in tragic circumstances.
231. Neighborhood leaders remembered other times the white business community pursued its dreams without regard for the people who lived nearby.
232. The essence of cyclic structure is similarly straight forward though it is pursued in a distinctly roundabout manner.
233. He was pursued, as described in the rhyme, until caught at Grassgill End where he was burned at the stake.
234. If the system had been built on popular votes rather than the electoral college, each would have pursued a different strategy.
235. Sometimes they individually pursued selfish national interests that strained the tolerance of allies.
236. These and other themes are also pursued through detailed case studies from several contrasting regions of the world.
237. But it pursued accommodating policies at first and did not deflate until 1964.
238. Expansion and application of some of those ideas will be pursued in the following chapters.
239. She was being pursued over £2,000 in a suspected social security fraud.
240. He was never tried for murder, but was always pursued by an assumption that he was a poisoner.