Sentence examples for behind the quest from inspiring English sources

Now that Aids had struck its first celebrity, many felt, there might be a stronger push behind the quest for a successful treatment".

"Health and safety" may be all very well, but there is a problem about "the attitude which lies behind the quest for these benefits".

Along the way he tells poignant and powerful stories behind the quest for knowledge and recreates some iconic science experiments from the past.

That supplies could not last forever (carrying capacity is a frequent ecological and evolutionary theme in Smil′s story) was the driving force behind the quest to "split" the strongly bonded di-nitrogen (N2) molecule, the natural form of inert atmospheric nitrogen.

Besançon argues that, in the absence of this context, we would fail to understand something like the essentially religious motivation behind the quest for purity, the asceticism, the dissatisfaction with finitude, or the "constants" of iconoclasm that are played out yet again in abstractionism.

Testimony and e-mails introduced as evidence have offered an unvarnished look at how the company carried out a relentless behind-the-scenes quest to get the project approved.

It shows that New York's big urban districts are falling further and further behind in the quest to hire fully certified teachers.

There's another reason I feel indebted to my father, and it has to do with those embarrassing foreign ways: his willingness to leave everything familiar behind in the quest for a new world that would provide opportunity even for a refugee's children.

UNICEF has also used its voice to ensure that the millions of marginalized and vulnerable children who are at risk of being left behind in the quest to meet the goals are not forgotten.

The search for truth — about the visible and the invisible — is perhaps the most fundamental of human undertakings, ranking close behind the quests for warmth, food and a mate.

The club was fourth in the Segunda División but only a point behind Racing Santander in the quest for a promotion place.