Sentence examples for large-scale pursuit from inspiring English sources

They considered immediately pursuing McClellan; however, in view of the rain and confusion, Davis and Lee deemed large-scale pursuit of McClellan's army too risky.

War can be defined narrowly, as conflict between nations, or broadly, as large-scale violence in pursuit of gain.

The report prompted a large-scale aerial and ground pursuit, but the authorities learned hours later that Falcon had never left the ground.

Collective action, or the large-scale cooperation in the pursuit of public goods, has been suggested to have evolved through cultural group selection.

The pursuit of large-scale, ridgeline wind power in Vermont represents a terrible error of vision and planning and a misunderstanding of what a responsible society must do to slow the warming of our planet.

Yet the military is still mounting large-scale combat operations in the pursuit of armed groups of rebels in mountain hideouts, and turning villages upside down in a search for suspects and weapons that is making the foreign presence ever more unpopular with Afghans.

The approach to pastoralism by successive Ethiopian governments has been to coerce or force people out of pastoralism into purportedly modern and efficient activities through the pursuit of large-scale commercial agriculture, the establishment of national parks and sedentarisation (Gebeye 2016).

What energy might have been spent prosaically reassessing Lawrence's character has been diverted to more glamorous pursuits, namely large-scale filmmaking.

"It was always part of a plan," says West, who also counts large-scale, graffiti-inspired painting among his pursuits.

What Tunisians deserve and what the revolution sought was the end of dictatorship and the pursuit of accountability for large-scale corruption and human rights violations, not authoritarian measures and entrenched impunity.

Turkey has held back from undertaking large-scale military actions in Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) territory in pursuit of Kurdistan Workers Party insurgents.