hot pursuit

collocation in English

meaningsofhotandpursuit

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hot
adjective
uk
/hɒt/us
/hɑːt/
having a ...
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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 ofhotandpursuitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The cornerstones of the strategy were envelopment, surprise, speed andhotpursuit.
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They were inhotpursuitof what they suspected might be criminal offences.
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However, we have no record of that "hotpursuit" process having occurred so far.
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Does he also recall that he talked abouthotpursuitacross the border, as well as coming to grips with extradition?
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What we have in mind is that a water bailiff might very well be inhotpursuitof some people illegally taking salmon.
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Is he satisfied with the present arrangements forhotpursuit?
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They allow a degree of what might be calledhotpursuit; in some areas, joint patrols operate.
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Emboldened, we go inhotpursuitfor further exemption for the small shopkeeper.
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If you once see a pack of sleek, well-trained hounds inhotpursuitof one frightened animal, no wonder it is unpredictable.
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The problems of this sort of attack are not necessarily ones that are immediately met by a response ofhotpursuit.
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It allows thehotpursuitof quarry species from land where a request to hunt is in force on to "neighbouring land".
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It is true that the nature of our boundaries means that anyone who attemptshotpursuitmay well end up with "wet pursuit".
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As for his thoughts onhotpursuit, that is a matter for the conference to consider.
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We have closed the three major funds and are inhotpursuitof the others.
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Together withhotpursuit, the instrument of cross-border surveillance has thus to date, offered the most effective option in enforcing the law across borders.
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They would be able to enter inhotpursuit, rather than have to find a magistrate, get a warrant and return to catch somebody red-handed.
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They were followed by some 40 dogs inhotpursuit.
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We must take the initiative on cross-border policing, on co-operation between police forces, onhotpursuitand on the competence of courts.
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We need a similar doctrine ofhotpursuitin this area.
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The article concerning self-defence in which we are inhotpursuitis, so to speak, a postscript to military action which has already been taken.
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