Sentence examples for illicit pursuits from inspiring English sources

Even after a ban on music was lifted, listening to songs in public and reading the Persian translations of many western novels remained illicit pursuits.

It is also organized around a single, unified plot, which distinguished it from Defoe's more episodic "Moll Flanders" (1722), a pseudo-memoir that recounts its protagonist's varied and largely illicit pursuits, from her inauspicious beginnings through her late years in the colonies.

India's illicit pursuit of nuclear weapons would effectively be forgiven.

They are barbed and venomous (just ask anyone who has run afoul of the Syrian secret police) and they are richly entwined with just about every deadly racket in the Middle East from arms smuggling, to state support for an array of terrorist groups, to targeted political assassinations, to illicit pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Federal prosecutors released a document Wednesday that alleged Fogle scheduled business trips to accommodate his illicit sexual pursuits, which included buying sex with teens.

For its part, the Treasury Department said on Thursday that it "has been relentless in its pursuit of illicit activity by banks in the U.S. and around the world".

The steam of feverish activity is rising from the Ambassador Theater, where that little den of iniquity called "Chicago" continues its long-running pursuit of illicit pleasure.

The other two spaces, on an ugly industrial street, had been adapted to the festival's purposes in a way that made the music feel like an underground pursuit, even a little illicit.

They said it could have been hijacked by an organized criminal gang, perhaps in pursuit of drugs or some other illicit materials stashed on board, or to test the security environment in preparation for future attacks.

Ideally, methadone therapy allows opiate-dependent people to take just enough of the drug to avoid withdrawal symptoms and reduce the urge to take illicit opiates so that they may focus their energies on other pursuits.

Alex Israel's installation "Property," consists of found objects that form a kind of tawdry sculptural rebus about the pursuit of physical perfection by evoking the body, gyms, medicine and illicit sex.