verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hotly pursued (= chased closely )
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The man ran out of the store, hotly pursued by security guards.
pursue a career (= try to make a successful career )
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She left teaching to pursue a career as a psychologist.
pursue a goal
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Have we gone too far in pursuing the goal of national security?
pursue an objective (= try to achieve something you want )
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War has always been a means of pursuing national objectives.
pursue the matter (= keep discussing or asking about something )
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She decided not to pursue the matter, as it obviously upset him.
pursue your aims (= try to achieve them over a long period of time )
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We worked closely together to pursue our common aims.
pursue/follow a dream (= try to do or get what you want )
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She left her home town to pursue her dreams.
pursue/follow a policy (= continue with a policy over a period of time )
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The organization is pursuing a policy of cost cutting.
pursue/follow a strategy (= do a particular planned series of actions )
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They are pursuing different strategies.
pursuing...vendetta
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He accused the British media of pursuing a vendetta against him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
actively
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This kind of splitting is a mechanism which is actively pursued by the primitive ego.
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The only job he has actively pursued was at his alma mater, Wisconsin.
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We are actively pursuing that now.
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In search of an answer, you follow your nose, wherever it leads, actively pursuing the mystery.
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Research in both branches is pursued actively at Edinburgh University.
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Alarmed by Hitler's rise to power, Stalin was actively pursuing an alliance with the Western democracies.
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That is what we are actively pursuing .
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However, occasions will arise where contributions are justified and this should be actively pursued with the insurer concerned.
further
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The matter was not further pursued , and was not raised before us by Mr. Beloff.
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The gender perspective is one that could fruitfully be pursued further in anthropological studies on values in connection with social behaviour.
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The theme of decentralisation is one that is pursued further in the Next Steps Initiative.
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We would wish to pursue further the criminal frauds committed by Robert Maxwell and others associated with the Daily Mirror.
vigorously
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Histological proof may be difficult to obtain but should be vigorously pursued .
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The Governors urged that the purchase of the land should be pursued vigorously .
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Such Day Charges are due to be settled when they are incurred and their collection is pursued vigorously .
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They will vigorously pursue their policies to combat drug trafficking and misuse of drugs, nationally and internationally.
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My Department has vigorously pursued reported delays with the authorities concerned.
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I wish him luck in the negotiations that he will vigorously pursue towards that end.
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Strategies that ensure the modernisation of manufacturing, distribution and the minimisation of overhead costs will continue to be pursued vigorously .
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There was still no news of Alex Household though police investigations were being vigorously pursued .
■ NOUN
action
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Ten of the women are still trying to pursue the action .
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The families of the victims chose to pursue the action because it was the only form of redress open to them.
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And SportsChannel could pursue legal action if there is no settlement.
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There is a protocol for pursuing such actions , and police time and money is not usually wasted on minor assaults.
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To my knowledge at this point, nobody has been stopped from pursuing any course of action ....
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The group said it would continue to pursue legal action , which it filed in the U.S.
activity
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But they differ from normal girls in the extent to which they pursue these activities and their inability to desist from them.
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Indeed, the logic of commercialism may lead the enterprise to pursue activities at odds with other government objectives.
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All prisoners are urged to pursue educational and cultural activities .
aim
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Of course, we should not be surprised that pressure groups pursue self-interested aims - that is usually why they are created.
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That they may also be interested in pursuing their aims by occult means should afford no surprise.
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An Act was passed in 1981 to pursue this aim and establish the new framework for special education suggested by Warnock.
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The structure should be tailored in such a way that it can most effectively pursue its aims .
argument
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I should like to pursue this argument through the use of Benjamin's conceptual framework in the analysis of postmodernist cultural forms.
career
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He subsequently pursued a similar career to his father's, but in the service of the Cavendish rather than the Willoughby family.
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But at least he will have done something to pursue his career goal.
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In the 1960s he gave up practice to pursue an academic career as an architectural historian.
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But Rolt was not content to pursue this full literary career .
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He attributed his decision to pursue a managerial career mainly to this experience.
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He then pursued a successful career in industry as a personnel director, and built up valuable connections in trade union circles.
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Green is pursuing a musical career and Priestley has turned producer-director.
case
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Having a specialized unit will make it possible to pursue more cases , he said.
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Mrs Moon says prosecutors have consistently refused to listen to her adamant refusal to pursue the case .
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But shortly after the trial the twin's parents announced that they were considering pursuing a civil case for damages.
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He said the family wants prosecutors to pursue the case .
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The police often say it is a domestic matter and refuse to pursue the case .
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Meili was suspended from his job and hired a lawyer to pursue his case .
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No mean combatant, Mr Holdsworth dismissed two solicitors for not pursuing his case with sufficient vigour.
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A change in administrations following this years presidential election could affect how aggressively federal officials pursue the case .
claim
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The Court of Appeal concluded that he ordinarily worked outside Great Britain and was therefore unable to pursue an unfair dismissal claim .
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These include pursuing a claim for policy excess, car hire charges and loss of the use of one's vehicle.
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Where that does not resolve any difficulty, the client may pursue his claims with the Solicitors' Complaints Bureau.
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Overall, it may be difficult to discover whether there is enough evidence to pursue a claim .
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We will pursue a claim against those responsible for your accident.
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It seems we may be able to pursue a negligence claim in respect of the fire.
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However, it also has its own panel to whom it recommends people wishing to pursue a medical negligence claim .
course
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He was a strong and greedy monarch who pursued a course of military aggrandisement from the very beginning of his reign.
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But the municipal oligarchy was too weak to pursue its course for long, and eventually came to terms with the state.
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Financial policy, which deviated increasingly from monetarist orthodoxy, also pursued a more distinct course with Nigel Lawson as Chancellor.
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I am confident that he will pursue this course and continue to run a department whose sales exceed our expectations.
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Prior to Theology, he may have pursued an Arts course when he was a young man.
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First School students and Junior students pursue separate courses , as they prepare specifically for classroom work.
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To my knowledge at this point, nobody has been stopped from pursuing any course of action....
end
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It denies the appropriateness of using any political means to pursue such ends .
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Delco is pursuing the low end of the market with its $ 900 Telepath 100 system.
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Lord Aldington is determined to pursue me to the end .
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Each State, in fact, pursued its own selfish ends .
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I wish him luck in the negotiations that he will vigorously pursue towards that end .
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A good reporter, given a mere hint of the existence of a story, will pursue it to the end .
goal
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But in the final instance, these short-run goals are pursued with a green glinted eye focused on long-run profitability.
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Whatever goal I am pursuing , all the others - plus many I may not even recognize - are involved.
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Quite often a patient remains undecided at this stage about which goal to pursue .
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This is not an unattainable ideal, but a goal which you must pursue in order to avoid stagnation.
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Accordingly, curriculum development involves specifying educational goals and selecting appropriate learning contexts in which those goals can be pursued .
government
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That is ironic given Labour's supposed support for the concept of unitary authorities which the Government are pursuing .
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Although the government has pursued hazards reduction research for decades, it has been taken more seriously in the last few years.
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In effect Washington was subsidizing the Wilson government to pursue policies which the latter wished to pursue in any case.
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For years governments have let scientists pursue the defenceless boson at public expense.
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The Government have pursued policies which have added to and certainly not loosened women's shackles.
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The House would welcome a statement that the Government intended to pursue that line.
idea
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John, I encourage you to pursue Anne's great idea .
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What we can do now is pursue that idea .
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Peake was not interested in a permanent move and Pool did not pursue the idea of an extended loan.
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Children are encouraged to have and pursue their own wonderful ideas .
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Thankfully she did not persist in pursuing her mad idea .
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Quinn pursued the idea for a few moments but then abandoned it.
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Artists could, and did, pursue self-chosen ideas .
individual
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The ability to maintain physical and mental powers has allowed some individuals to pursue their chosen careers regardless of their age.
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Politics is the competition among individuals and groups pursuing their own interests.
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The constitution should guarantee respect for equality and autonomy, yet leave individuals to pursue their own interests as they wish.
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Market systems that allow individuals to pursue their own interests within a system of property rights, contracts, and market prices.
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Business development in many companies consists of individuals pursuing exciting deals without a clear sense of how these contribute to the company.
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The Conservatives believe that as long as government allows individuals to to pursue their own goals their citizenship is served.
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The Council is continuing to collect these arrears from individuals and to pursue debtors by all the means available under the legislation.
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The members of society thus perceive themselves as private individuals , each pursuing their own private and competing interests.
interest
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But one friend, Zak Ove, son of film-maker Horace Ove, encouraged him to pursue an interest in photography.
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Corinne delegated the details of the nursery to Aggie as she pursued her varied interests in town.
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I am assuming that you have decided not to pursue your initial interest .
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Barry Cox, 53 years old, chief executive officer and president, resigned to pursue other interests .
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Fowler was a man of great energy and enthusiasm and pursued his wide interests in many fields of engineering with great vigour.
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He succeeds Wayne D.. Wallace, who left the company to pursue other interests .
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Therefore, once he has left, the employee is allowed to pursue his own interests .
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The Mountain View-based software company said that MacDonald left to pursue personal interests .
issue
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So I've ended up pursuing these issues on two fronts.
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Our inclination is, however, not to pursue the issue further.
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Anxious to pursue this issue to its roots, Coleridge plunges into six chapters of philosophical enquiry.
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It is very difficult to pursue an issue when it is impossible to produce a detailed case.
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At this stage there will be a decision to do nothing or pursue the issue .
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I shall, therefore, pursue two issues .
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The question is whether domestic competition-policy authorities have the capacity to pursue the issue .
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The course will appeal to advanced level students interested in pursuing conceptual issues about the nature and preconditions of politics.
line
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The dissenters pursue four main lines of attack.
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Even as Bush talked arms limitations with Gorbachev, he pursued a hard line on defense.
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He is right to pursue this line .
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All too often the outside researcher pursues lines of enquiry which the prevailing culture manages to encompass and nullify.
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So Gassendi pursues two lines of thought in his Exercises against the Aristotelians.
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They were unable to pursue any line of inquiry which transgressed across the frontiers of authority of the intelligence organisations.
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Civil servants found it very difficult to contradict their ministers or to pursue a different line .
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The First Coalition pursued two lines in the search for peace.
matter
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It is capable of extension, but we shall not pursue the matter here.
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I regret that they were unable to pursue the matter any further.
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Anxious to avoid further difficulty, Harriet did not pursue the matter .
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She wouldn't put it past him but in the brilliant afternoon heat she wasn't inclined to pursue the matter .
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There was no need to pursue the matter any further prior to arrest.
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If you feel upset by an apparent unfairness, pursue the matter through the grievance procedure.
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He would not risk bringing himself and the Kharkov base into disrepute by pursuing the matter any further.
objective
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It masks its true intentions, it conceals the objectives that it secretly pursues: these objectives can not be disclosed.
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We will explore in due course whether these objectives are pursued to any significant extent in practice.
path
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In the South, the church hierarchy pursued the path of full cultural control.
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Meanwhile, far from the hilltop haunts of astronomers, craftsmen and clockmakers pursued an alternate path to a longitude solution.
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Mr Glocer, a creature of instant messaging and web interfaces, can not imagine pursuing any other path .
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Perhaps they were open to pursuing a new career path because of their developmental stage.
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He also promotes his staff according to merit, rather than by pursuing the traditional path of steady, age-linked advancement.
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During that time, he has pursued his own path , favouring lyrical abstraction at the expense of changing fashion.
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The rift between the two was never really healed, and from the 1930s onwards they pursued their separate paths .
policy
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It indicates rather a degree of hesitation in the leadership of the party as to the correct cultural policy to be pursued .
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Neither Clinton nor the Republicans are pursuing a health policy .
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The conclusion of the policy being pursued at present is that eventually everybody will be subsidising nearly everybody's housing.
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That is the policy which we have pursued consistently, with the result that direct taxation has come down substantially.
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Similarly, the United Front policy had been pursued despite its damaging effect on the Party.
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It also meant allowing money supply to contract, or grow less rapidly, when deflationary fiscal policies were pursued .
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User education for schoolchildren in public libraries may therefore become increasingly out of step if this policy is pursued more widely.
question
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Both Piaget and Vygotsky were concerned about intellectual development, but each pursued different problems and questions .
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Boxer hadn't pursued his question , so he must know that, too.
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In what follows, I propose to pursue this question further by considering critically four different philosophical theories of particulars.
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Irritated she swept away, flushed the tissues down the lavatory and returned to hear Oliver pursuing her question .
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We should begin our test of pragmatism by pursuing the question raised a moment ago.
research
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This is the very last place where they would want some outsider installing himself and pursuing his researches .
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Although the government has pursued hazards reduction research for decades, it has been taken more seriously in the last few years.
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The department is accordingly a highly suitable base for postgraduate students seeking to pursue research or advanced study in comparative law.
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It freed scholars to pursue their researches without having to look over their shoulders at the Holy Office.
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He is now pursuing his clinical and research interests in diabetes and metabolism at the Clinical Research Centre, Harrow.
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She plans to pursue her research actively and has acquired a word-processor to this end.
strategy
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Instead, they pursue a novel identity strategy designed to side-step the potentially problematic issue of nationality.
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If the system had been built on popular votes rather than the electoral college, each would have pursued a different strategy .
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The personalized nature of disputes caused litigants to pursue all possible legal strategies even when it would have been more rational to compromise.
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Traders and institutions value anonymity because it enables them to pursue investment strategies without being thwarted by competitors, the groups said.
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Small wonder then, that private financiers did not pursue this strategy .
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To return control to those who work down where the rubber meets the road, entrepreneurial leaders pursue a variety of strategies .
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For lawyers or accountants the notion of pursuing a flexible strategy towards employment makes a lot of sense.
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Key executives make a commitment to pursue a new strategy , only to return to business as usual.
student
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First School students and Junior students pursue separate courses, as they prepare specifically for classroom work.
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Some students might want to pursue a combination of high school and community-college course work.
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Even students who choose to pursue technical specialties, through apprenticeships or other avenues, should receive a solid dose of academics.
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Contrary to appearances, Mabel was a business student pursuing an advanced degree in international trade at Xiamen University.
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All students pursue certain courses of general anthropological concern.
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The department is accordingly a highly suitable base for postgraduate students seeking to pursue research or advanced study in comparative law.
study
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A considerable amount of time and money has been spent in pursuing the study of river basin dynamics.
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When he enters Cambridge, Sir Hugo gives him freedom to pursue the studies of his choice.
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In 1943 he was still doggedly pursuing his studies .
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Having laid the foundation of a compleat classical education at Harvard College, he pursues every other study with ease.
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These and other themes are also pursued through detailed case studies from several contrasting regions of the world.
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The gender perspective is one that could fruitfully be pursued further in anthropological studies on values in connection with social behaviour.
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Frankenstein was encouraged by his other teacher, Waldman, to pursue his studies because Waldman thought it would help mankind.
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Notable among these are Volunteers contemplating careers in the field of economic development, after first pursuing graduate study in economics.
■ VERB
allow
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The ability to maintain physical and mental powers has allowed some individuals to pursue their chosen careers regardless of their age.
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But it allows him to pursue a compromise peace.
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To allow these freedoms and pursue detailed academic planning requires sophisticated and reliable forecasting.
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Thus, Ahab will allow the men to pursue other whales and to capture as many as possible.
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Therefore, once he has left, the employee is allowed to pursue his own interests.
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Market systems that allow individuals to pursue their own interests within a system of property rights, contracts, and market prices.
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As very few allow them to pursue day release courses, the main provision is on an evening basis.
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The Conservatives believe that as long as government allows individuals to to pursue their own goals their citizenship is served.
continue
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As Primrose and her brother rejoined them at the table, Madeleine continued to pursue her own thoughts.
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Doctors are continuing to pursue the possibility of a seizure mainly because everything else they can think of has been ruled out.
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Lesley Harrison continued to pursue her attacker despite one blow from a screwdriver that punctured her heart.
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They continued to pursue their own explanations for the mysterious mountains on the ocean floor.
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Margaret was encouraged to continue pursuing her enquiries with the solicitor.
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Adams, now 36, wondered whether she should continue to pursue her Olympic hopes.
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The position has not altered and we will continue to pursue our present policies.
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Some of them continued to pursue him, or else Orestes thought that they did.
decide
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I am assuming that you have decided not to pursue your initial interest.
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Hernandez wants to be a police officer, but she decided not to pursue that just yet.
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Every time a dolphin school is sighted, the group decides whether to pursue it and attempt the drive.
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McVeigh later decided against pursuing additional appeals.
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A report is sent to the district attorney, who then decides whether to pursue his own inquiry.
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I decided not to pursue it.
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To begin with I decided to pursue this possibility in a straight forward sketch.
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President Clinton is on the verge of deciding how best to pursue an international ban on land mines.
intend
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If Clarke had intended to pursue his enquiries further, he obviously thought better of it under that formidable gaze.
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He reviewed the course that his administration had followed and intended to pursue in the future.
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I intend therefore to pursue three main strands.
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What are the main lines of enquiry you intend to pursue ?
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If you intend to pursue a very flat structure, I would delete the post of Depute Director for modelling purposes.
want
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It's a question that lawyers representing the two Hitachi employees wanted to pursue in open court.
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I wanted to pursue my star further.
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Some students might want to pursue a combination of high school and community-college course work.
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She wanted only me, pursued me, in fact, with an ardor that I at first found embarrassing.
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It boils down to whether we want to pursue the truth or chase after unfounded beliefs that make us feel special.
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He said the family wants prosecutors to pursue the case.
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By my junior year in high school, I knew I wanted to pursue journalism.
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As always, Rembrandt offers as many possibilities as one wants to pursue .
wish
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The risk to the purchaser in this solution is that the vendor may still wish to pursue debtors.
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Do you wish to pursue the process?
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Opportunities are also available for those who wish to pursue higher diplomas and degrees in a full-time or part-time capacity.
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He still wishes to pursue a medical career, and has been told that he will almost definitely get into medical school.
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What indications are there that Lansdowne wishes to pursue a cautious policy, and how would you explain that caution? 5.
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Conservative Members say that they do not wish to pursue people or insist that their will should be enforced.
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We would wish to pursue further the criminal frauds committed by Robert Maxwell and others associated with the Daily Mirror.
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However, it also has its own panel to whom it recommends people wishing to pursue a medical negligence claim.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A good reporter will pursue a story until he or she knows all the facts.
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After college, Jeffrey said he hopes to pursue a career in medicine.
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Carol's been pursuing him for months.
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Police pursued the gunman into an abandoned building.
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Police pursued the suspect for 20 minutes along Highway 5.
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The ship was being pursued by enemy submarines.
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The US intends to pursue vigorous programs in space science.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A country abandons the possibility of pursuing its own economic and social policies.
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Filthy-rich individuals apart, the politics of greed makes no economic sense for the wealthy countries that pursue it.
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If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity please sign and return the attached undertaking of confidentiality to me.
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Indeed, the logic of commercialism may lead the enterprise to pursue activities at odds with other government objectives.
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Should people pursue their own happiness at the expense of others?
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Similarly, the United Front policy had been pursued despite its damaging effect on the Party.
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Those who pursue quality management on that basis are doomed to disappointment.