Sentence examples for except in pursuit from inspiring English sources
I never fell into any familiarity with him except in pursuit of the broader objective".
Yet it deliberately lied to inspectors for two decades to cover up activities and experiments that make little sense except in pursuit of a bomb.
I experienced a shock of recognition one day, when I looked out my window and saw a family strolling down the street where few ever walked, except in pursuit of heroin in an unmistakably Bosnian formation: the eldest member leading the way at a slow, aimless pace, all of them slouching, hands on their butts, as though burdened by a weighty load of worries.
The take-home points were: Men ultimately want sex more than anything else; men bond with each other primarily over the pursuit of sex; men have few legitimate reasons to get close to women, except in pursuit of sex; and men don't experience, let alone express, any emotional insecurities.
Except for negotiating against time in pursuit of delusional and unrealistic ambitions.
-- has little to do with politics or "idealism," except in the limited sense that in pursuit of her ideals she steadily upped the ante in ways her father could not ignore.
"I don't know why we'd ever doubt (except that your constant headline hyperbole in pursuit of Internet traffic has rendered all words meaningless and helped create a cloud of misinformation that shrouded the rise of dangerous extremist beliefs and got us into this situation in the first place)." "That's fair," the newsboy had to say.
A recent tour along the first few miles of the border attests to the transformation -- once a wild stretch populated by border crossers, smugglers, bandits and federal agents in pursuit, the area was deserted except for the occasional Border Patrol vehicle.
If a nonprofit receives an unrestricted charitable donation of $100,000, all $100,000 (except for the comparatively small fund-raising costs) can be put to work in pursuit of the organization's mission.
Jonathan Barnet in pursuit.
