Sentence examples for protracted quest for from inspiring English sources

The Philharmonic's protracted quest for a new music director has ended at last with the appointment of Lorin Maazel, a very eminent musician of 71, whose international career stretches back to his debut as a child prodigy in 1939.

One example of this syndrome is found in the person of former Senator Rick Santorum, who, in his protracted quest for the Republican presidential nomination, displayed a unique inability to appreciate that America had sent him the message that it didn't want him to be president.

She said protracted timelines for police-involved shootings weren't uncommon.

How much does science really gain from the current protracted publication process, with reviewers stringently enforcing the journal's quest for impact, and authors dutifully performing long lists of additional experiments to satisfy reviewers?

The mountains also provided the backdrop to modern Libya's bloody quest for nationhood — where the country's greatest hero, Omar Mukhtar, led a protracted guerrilla war against the Italians, who in 1911 invaded Libya, resolving to seize it from the Ottomans and make it Italy's "Fourth Shore".

A comical quest for a mythical grail.

It meant abandoning my quest for justice".

It was a quest for "justice".

It's a quest "for Liberty," apparently.

(See below The quest for rigour).

Then, the quest for redemption.