Sentence examples for private pursuits from inspiring English sources

Many withdrew from public life and turned to private pursuits.

His private pursuits were not typical of the judiciary.

"Tony Blair's conduct in his private pursuits also calls into question his suitability for the role.

An advocacy group, the National Parks Conservation Association, is also arguing against continuing to open parkland to private pursuits.

This weekend, the couple, like others caught here in the postelection maelstrom, will try to juggle political and private pursuits.

Less plain to the eye is a shift in ideological fashions, away from activist and public kinds of Islamism to quieter and more private pursuits of faith.

Certainly the state should no longer subsidise the private pursuit of Arcadia by providing expensive public services to remote and sparsely populated areas.

They are inherently inefficient, evidenced by their under-used post offices, bus services, schools, branch railway lines and "cottage" hospitals.The state should no longer subsidise the private pursuit of Arcadia through expensive public services for remote and sparsely populated areas.

Many of the Founders imagined republicanism as an antidote to the private pursuit of wealth, and hoped that America's politicians would be disinterested guardians of the public good, drawn from a self-sacrificing élite.

While her representational work blossomed in the public eye, af Klint also continued a more private pursuit: she had begun showing an interest in the occult and attending séances as early as 1879, at the age of 17.

Certainly we don't need to look far for contemporary parallels to the hypocrisy of Angelo, who publicly punishes sexual transgression with the same grim ferocity he brings to the private pursuit of his own base desires.