relentless pursuit

collocation in English

meaningsofrelentlessandpursuit

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relentless
adjective
uk
/rɪˈlent.ləs/us
/rɪˈlent.ləs/
continuing in a severe or ...
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pursuit
noun
uk
/pəˈsjuːt/us
/pɚˈsuːt/
an activity that you spend time doing, usually when you are ...
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(Definition ofrelentlessandpursuitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrelentless pursuit

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Why is he the object of herrelentlesspursuit?
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Their objective is therelentlesspursuitof even better standards of service to their customers.
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Now two destroyers or even one can maintain prolonged andrelentlesspursuit.
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Dalton followed in hisrelentlesspursuitof cheap money in the middle of one of the longest and most unparalleled booms in this country?
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I am totally against therelentlesspursuitof that activity irrespective of the greater harm it is likely to do to the community in general.
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The first theme is simply therelentlesspursuitof better housekeeping, through greater cost-effectiveness, more modern accounting and a better use of information technology.
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It is an argument for arelentlesspursuitof the cheap money policy.
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I pay tribute to hisrelentlesspursuitof information and inquiry.
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Whether it is or not, the security forces will continue theirrelentlesspursuitof the criminals.
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I do not believe that that relieves us—the public sector—from therelentlesspursuitof efficiency in the interests of the services that we provide.
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I want to pay tribute to herrelentlesspursuitof truth.
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And we committed ourselves to working with others in arelentlesspursuitof higher educational standards—providing pressure and support, identifying and spreading good practice, and, where necessary, finding more money.
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There is not the slightest doubt that hisrelentlesspursuitof sanity and reason helped to achieve the agreement that has been warmly welcomed this afternoon.
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Will he take vigorous action to ensure that it is enforced and to stop tobacco companies hooking children on this fatal habit in theirrelentlesspursuitof profit?
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Hisrelentlesspursuithad pushed them to make one large score, then lie low for a time.
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We have seen in recent times how therelentlesspursuitof profit has brought the global economy to its knees.
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This realization was lifelong and drove him in therelentlesspursuitof knowledge until the day when he could no longer see.
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It commended the school for itsrelentlesspursuitof scholarship and excellence.
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At its base, the school stresses therelentlesspursuitof the technical mastery of capoeira, at both the student and instructor levels.
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Eventually therelentlesspursuitwill exhaust the quarry allowing it to be brought down by its pursuers.
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