Sentence examples for previous pursuits from inspiring English sources

As in many of his previous pursuits, Burnet set an ambitious agenda for himself but ran into difficulties.

An outdoors enthusiast since he discovered cycling as a UC Berkeley student in the late 1960s, Schad was a former adventure runner who viewed his devotion to hiking as less compulsive than previous pursuits.

These Israeli voters have given Mr. Sharon a rematch with his old adversary, after his previous pursuit of Mr. Arafat almost destroyed his career.

Mr. Strong's company is based in Menomonee Falls, Wis., but Mr. Spitzer is pursuing the case -- along with other suits involving mutual fund companies nationwide -- based on the Martin Act, a New York securities law dating to 1921 that he used in his previous pursuit of conflicts among stock analysts.

The lawsuit is the first to be filed by the company in federal court, following several previous legal pursuits at the state level against prohibitions of its sales model.

Mr. Pearson hopes the idiosyncratic, almost zine-like appeal will help distinguish Apology from the cultural exclusivity of journals like n+1 and The Paris Review, while piquing the interest of readers familiar with his previous editorial pursuits.

Gill's previous athletic pursuit was gymnastics, a sport which had an established scale of difficulty for particular movements and body positions.

By testing how vestibular responses interact with discharge modulation during smooth pursuit, previous studies have classified FEF pursuit neurons as either gaze-velocity neurons or eye/head-velocity neurons (Fukushima et al. 2000; Akao et al. 2007).

India's previous highest successful pursuit was 330-4 to beat Pakistan in Dhaka in 2012.

As was the case with Issa's frantic pursuits of previous "scandals" involving the Obama Administration — notably Benghazi, Solyndra, and the "Fast and Furious" program — the congressman had failed to back up his headline-grabbing charges with any real evidence, and only succeeded in turning the hearing into another dispiriting spectacle.

The observation here for vergence together with our previous studies in smooth pursuit and optokinetic nystagmus [4], and other studies in saccades [5] for tinnitus showing abnormalities for almost types of eye movements are compatible with the idea of dysfunction of structures involved in many types of eye movements (such as the cerebellum) and mild dysfunction.