Collocations withpursuit
These are words often used in combination withpursuit.
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academic pursuit
The inquiry into an emerging 'regional' architecture can co-exist as both an academic pursuit and a quest of practice.
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active pursuit
It is not the case that a good life is one in which people must be constantly engaged in the active pursuit of goals.
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aggressive pursuit
In addition, the aggressive pursuit of trade liberalisation by the military government after 1976 led to a sharp contraction of the industrial labour force.
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artistic pursuit
The creation of literature, it is assumed, is an artistic pursuit which should not be degraded by the discussion of anything so sordid as money.
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creative pursuits
Composers who persisted in their work in spite of this did so by accepting and then overcoming the loneliness of their creative pursuits.
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educational pursuits
For example, in education, activity has increased from 20% to an average of about 89% of committees engaging in some type of educational pursuits.
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hot pursuit
The cornerstones of the strategy were envelopment, surprise, speed and hot pursuit.
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intellectual pursuit
They are almost invariably linked to a more intellectual pursuit: they accompany interviews, reviews, or 'news' items.
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leisure pursuit
Depending on economic conditions, poaching might be morally acceptable in conditions of famine and to feed one's family, but not as a leisure pursuit without the relevant economic pressure.
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literary pursuit
In these instances, the schools frequently served as academies where elite men gathered to engage in literary pursuits.
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outdoor pursuit
It is a great thing to see the satisfaction and sense of achievement that those pupils can get from outdoor pursuit centres.
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police pursuit
A new fire training tower was built southeast of the control tower, and the 7,000-foot runway is used for high-speed police pursuit training.
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pursuit of excellence
In the last ten years the company has gone through a huge amount of change, in the pursuit of excellence, without major difficulty.
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pursuit of happiness
The outcome, though based on the legislator delivering minimal conditions for the pursuit of happiness, would nonetheless be practical and realizable.
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pursuit of justice
The reason for integrity, on this understanding, is that integrity, valued for the sake of gradualism, aids in the pursuit of justice.
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pursuit of knowledge
However, after a point people realized that the pursuit of knowledge itself brought pleasure and thus started to pursue it as an end in itself.
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pursuit of peace
Categorical imperatives offer hope, but they may make the pursuit of peace harder rather than easier.
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pursuit of pleasure
Sixty-eighters were not turning away from politics in the pursuit of pleasure : isolated individuals found happiness in collective action.
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pursuit of profit
We have seen in recent times how the relentless pursuit of profit has brought the global economy to its knees.
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pursuit of self-interest
That her novel articulates a story in which the pursuit of self-interest is not stigmatized or considered vulgar is significant in historical terms.
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pursuit of truth
He had little interest in an abstract pursuit of truth.
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pursuit of wealth
Women reminded male church leaders that their self-interested pursuit of wealth had undermined domestic peace.
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recreational pursuit
I doubt very much whether political meetings could, by any stretch of the imagination, be called a recreational pursuit.
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relentless pursuit
Why is he the object of her relentless pursuit?
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scholarly pursuits
This theme deserves further research, and might be explored through other avenues for cultural patronage, such as performance art, literary interests, scholarly pursuits and gardening.
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single-minded pursuit
It will also certainly involve redirecting the single-minded pursuit of abstraction promoted by the academy.
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vigorous pursuit
These conditions would not have been propitious for the vigorous pursuit of a new political agenda.
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