Pursuit in a sentence as a noun

We all know that the finance guys were too reckless in their pursuit of profits.

Principled pursuit of the right assignments is thus a bit of a stag hunt.

What's particularly disturbing is the sheer greed being shown in pursuit of these profits.

That's the golden mosquito, and a whole tribe of mosquito farmers has popped up in pursuit of their payoff.

That said, the pursuit of that skill often must be balanced with the business need of crafting a product.

Go out and explore this weird wonderful new intellectual pursuit that barely anyone in the last 50 years has been able to explore.

In the pursuit of this work, you will probably find yourself moving objects up to perhaps several hundred pounds, with possibly zero help.

It can be fascinating and beautiful and it can send you mad. Fall into the trap of believing that poker is a worthwhile pursuit of itself and you end up in the trap - living out of your car or on the crappy end of the Vegas strip, some weeks a millionaire, some weeks a bankrupt.

"Fighting" here, the battle between the heroic pursuit of accomplishment on the one hand and the "insidious machine called quo" on the other, is just the author reporting his own conflicts about what he wants to do.

It seems that in our modern society we have ported over the spirit of the puritan in castigating others even as we have won the freedoms that allow us under law to enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The Declaration of Independence states that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

" disclaimers about personal viewpoints and preferences>Just want to focus on the pursuit of perfection that I find so energizing - to put another way, if you had someone this passionate running each of the major airlines, I wonder what air travel would be like instead of the race-to-the-bottom experience it is now.

Does Google believe that if they just push a little harder and finish the job, that somehow the people so alienated will be won over?Or is the pursuit of profit far more important than the perception of the brand overall?Right now, and for the last year, the brand is being severely tarnished in all of the networks I have, tech and real-life.

The obfuscated C contest is a difficult intellectual pursuit and this wouldn't be hard to understand to someone who doesn't know C, but it is hard to explain how Rothko's rectangle blobs or Pollock's scribbles improve the human condition more than anyone else's blobs or scribbles except that these artists happened to fall in the right confluent streams of intellectual nonsense at the right time.

Pursuit definitions

noun

the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit"

See also: chase pursual following

noun

a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria; "the pursuit of love"; "life is more than the pursuance of fame"; "a quest for wealth"

See also: pursuance quest

noun

an auxiliary activity

See also: avocation by-line hobby sideline

noun

a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly); "sailing is her favorite pastime"; "his main pastime is gambling"; "he counts reading among his interests"; "they criticized the boy for his limited pursuits"

See also: pastime interest