Sentence examples for mere pursuit from inspiring English sources
They take comfort in the opposition of the good, intellectual, cultured life to the mere pursuit of money.
Business firms, as legally created entities, owe obligations to the political-economic systems in which they operate that go beyond the mere pursuit of profit.
We need to start taking those reforms as a blueprint for what we should do, rather than relying on the writings of international think tanks which are increasingly driven by the mere pursuit of profit.
Even among the ranks of serious presidential contenders, it's not easy to find candidates who can articulate exactly why they want to be president, beyond the mere pursuit of power, and what they'd actually do if they were to win. Warren has a few other things going for her, too.
The statewide poll was conducted little more than three months after voters in Washington and Colorado each passed measures to legalize marijuana as a mere pleasurable pursuit -- upping the stakes in America's marijuana debate.
He is a guy who runs home to look at a Robert Frost poem, or a story by Baal Shem Tov, whose presence you can feel in Rosen's birding: it is a down-to-earth mystical practice, a balm to mere academic pursuits.
And while this new global system of justice cannot call Idi Amin to account for the litany of crimes he committed, including the expulsion of my mother and father from Uganda in 1972, the mere presence and pursuit of this international structure is touching the lives of many millions of people around the world affected by those engaged in truly heinous crimes.
She tells her story, however, in self-condemning retrospect, chastened by the "Calamities" that have followed her pursuit of mere fortune.
In the end it is love — its absence, its pursuit, its mere possibility — that is the final ambiguity in the world of Otto Preminger, a world that continues to fascinate and unsettle.
His ambition lies in the advancement of Sports Direct; Newcastle United - and now Rangers - are mere vehicles in that pursuit.
The suspect, who is still on the loose, fired at the officer from mere feet away during a pursuit in the building's stairwell.
