Sentence examples for * the tracking down from inspiring English sources

"Because these workers were doing the tracking down in addition to their day jobs," said Vallance, "there may have been an element in sometimes not feeling this was the top of their priority list".

Fahey was repulsed by pretension, but he was an intellectual nonetheless, with an M.A. in folklore from U.C.L.A. (His field work included the tracking down and cultural resuscitation of Bukka White and Skip James, two titans of prewar blues).

We hurtle from the tracking down of taxi-drivers to the tracing of cell-phone calls and nocturnal raids on the homes of suspects; such momentum is undeniably but unpleasantly exciting, because we already know the outcome.

A lover of big news stories, particularly if they involved crime, Hitchen liked to tell of his role in the tracking down of the Great Train robber, Ronnie Biggs, during his days on the Express.

His substitution suggested the possibility that in the tracking down of terrorism the sacrifice of liberty might be tolerated.

On Monday, "Runaway Squad" arrives on A&E, joining "The Locator" on WE as cable shows dedicated to the tracking down of loved ones who may or may not want to be found.

Sometimes the tracking-down process does not have to be so complicated.

Here is a crime story, the girl tracking down the murderer of her sweetheart.

The longer I spent searching in the atlas, tracking down postal entrepôts, the more I began to equate stamp issuance in the 1920s with the causes of war or unrest 10 or even 50 years later.

Q. Aren't the volunteers' tracking down spammers a good use of the Internet's ability to mobilize communities?

Four years later, he was one of the youngsters tracking down their friend's kidnapper in the Children's Film Foundation production Blind Man's Bluff (1977).