Sentence examples for direct pursuit from inspiring English sources

Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold laments that companies and even academics devote so little to the direct pursuit of invention.

Abu Nidal remained active against Israel, but Iraq did not use him again as a terrorist subcontractor in the direct pursuit of Iraqi aims.

Indeed, military actions, including the one currently being planned, could easily make things worse.Even if the White House did want to use military power in direct pursuit of regime change, the country has no stomach for adventurism.

Friend, who lives in Leicester and admits to having visited the King Power Stadium as a supporter, does not referee City's matches and he has been stood down from the game at the Britannia Stadium, given that Tottenham are in direct pursuit of Claudio Ranieri's side at the top of the Premier League.

Her sense of fear and paranoia is matched by sexualized curiosity, and the invisible admirer's increasingly direct pursuit fuses in Maureen's mind with the fine clothing that she selects and tries on, leading her to consider the possibility of an encounter.

Longwings take prey either "out of hood," whereby the hood is removed and the falcon flies in direct pursuit from the falconer's gloved fist straight at quarry, or they are flown in a "waiting on" style, in which the falcon climbs high above the falconer, waiting to "stoop" at game flushed beneath it.

Having directed "Pursuit," an adaptation of one of his early novels, for television, Mr. Crichton turned to film, directing the low-budget "Westworld" (1973), for which he wrote the screenplay, about a virtual-reality theme park that made it possible to enter ancient Rome or the old West.

One the one hand, the guidance directs pursuit of additional reductions in deployed strategic warheads and less reliance on preparing for a surprise nuclear attack.

Styles of direct-pursuit hawking with longwings include rook hawking, crow hawking, and houbara hawking i.e., the hunting of bustard in which Arabs use four-wheel-drive vehicles to follow their prey-pursuing falcons across the desert.

Relatives with and without enhanced psychosis spectrum personality traits were impaired on initial eye acceleration, the most direct sensorimotor pursuit measure, but not on pursuit gain measures.

A patrol supervisor and a commander must direct the pursuit and stop it if conditions warrant.