Sentence examples for pursued causes from inspiring English sources

And she fanned the flames engulfing Herman Cain's presidential campaign when she introduced a woman who claimed that Cain once grabbed her head, forced it toward his crotch, and leered, "You want a job, right?" But the California attorney has also pursued causes that have chagrined her fellow feminists.

"Fiercely independent, Tam's persistence in pursuing causes close to his heart is legendary.

The participants pursue causes that are sometimes quixotic — like the protester who calls for removing Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill because of his brutality to American Indians.

He is also setting up a not-for-profit company to pursue causes about which feels strongly, including reforming drugs laws and improving mental health services.

Our thoughts anxiously pursue causes, reasons and cures.

Neild devoted his first speech to criticism of the Protectionist Dibbs government, and became known for pursuing causes such as free trade, old-age pensions and law reform.

Larry and Zachary Fisher pursued many causes together, both publicly and behind the scenes.

After his retirement, Mr. McNeil pursued philanthropic causes, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Zoo, where he paid to renovate the birdhouse, now known as the McNeil Avian Center.

Thomas Clarkson continued to travel, visiting anti-slavery groups throughout Britain, motivating activists and acting as an ambassador for the anti-slavery cause to other countries, while Buxton pursued the cause of reform in Parliament.

Drama seeks explanations, pursues causes that yield effects, whereas biography follows a person into strange byways of experience and into loose and dead ends, tangles and knots of personality.

Extraction and increased trade of NTFPs has been advocated as an alternative to timber-focused utilization on the grounds that it could be pursued without causing tropical deforestation.