Sentence examples for pursuance from inspiring English sources

The decisions by Iceland and Nestlé to drop their claims were a timely recognition of the need to make trade fair by improving the balance between the pursuance of profit and the needs of the poor.Barbara StockingDirectorOxfamOxfordDon't forget CongoSIR – You report that 3.5m people may have died in Congo's five-year civil war ("Peace, they say, but the killing goes on", March 29th).

When Japanese troops entered northern Indochina in September 1940 (in pursuance of an agreement extorted in August from the Vichy government of France), the United States uttered a protest.

The conference, proposed by Portugal in pursuance of its special claim to control of the Congo estuary, was necessitated by the jealousy and suspicion with which the great European powers viewed one another's attempts at colonial expansion in Africa.

In pursuance of that idea, he confiscated much private property and religious foundation lands, creating tremendous resentment and opposition among those who lost their revenues, including members of the religious ulama (theologian) class, the Turkish notables, and even some devşirme men, whose discontent threatened to undermine both state and sultan.

When the Italian government, in pursuance of a Badoglio Eisenhower agreement of September 29, declared war against Germany on October 13, 1943, Kesselring was already receiving reinforcements and consolidating the German hold on central and northern Italy.

In pursuance of his father's Hungarian ambitions, he led an expedition into Dalmatia and declared himself king of Hungary at Zara in August 1404, though he actually controlled very little territory.

With him, she, too, became active in church politics, insisting for years on the pursuance of the Christian war against the Turks.

The claim (dikē) might be raised by the plaintiff in pursuance of a private right or as a "public" (dēmosia) dikē for the purpose of obtaining the defendant's punishment.

On July 26, in pursuance of a new agreement with Vichy France, Japanese forces began to occupy bases in southern Indochina.

In pursuance of this new program, Japanese troops occupied Lae and Salamaua in New Guinea and Buka in the Solomon Islands in March 1942 and Bougainville in the Solomons and the Admiralty Islands (north of New Guinea) early in April.

It's his vocation, as he proved on returning at the end of the show to declare, unbidden and in pursuance of his campaign to goad David Cameron on the tiresome drug question, that he has never taken crystal meth.