7 sentences with 'pursue'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pursue and other words derived from it.
• « Nevertheless, the Nakamatsu's finally agreed to let their son pursue his dream, although they were going to make sure that music would not affect his normal life: school, family and friends. »
• « While the initial wave of European colonisation (mainly in the Americas) had been driven by the search for gold and the desire to convert foreigners to Christianity, European powers came to pursue colonies and trade routes in the name of commodities and the wealth they generated in the 17th century. »
• « From the 1850s onwards, women across Europe could not vote, could not initiate divorce (in countries where divorce was even possible), could not control custody of children, could not pursue higher education, could not open bank accounts in their own name, could not maintain ownership of property inherited after marriage, could not sue or serve as legal witnesses, and could not maintain control of their own wages if they worked and married. »
• « However, from the late Enlightenment period onwards, some Jews were reluctantly "emancipated" legally and were allowed to move to Christian cities, own land and pursue professions that had been forbidden to them in the past. »
• « In October the Bolsheviks took control of the most powerful Soviet, Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg). The Bolsheviks then took control of the Duma (Russian representative assembly), expelled members of other political parties, and then declared their intention to pursue goals that no other major party had been willing to achieve: unconditional peace with Germany and land for the peasants without compensation for the landowners. »
• « Soon it was time to plan my future. I was determined to pursue doctoral studies in biology and geology. »
• « In 1984, Arnold & Porter, an influential Washington, D.C. law firm, agreed to work pro bono with a new group of Virginia lawyers to pursue the appeals. »