Sentence examples for pursued thousands of from inspiring English sources
Debt recovery firms have pursued thousands of patients for millions of pounds in recent years, prompting complaints of harassing phone calls and intimidating doorstep visits.
Mr. DesLauriers of the F.B.I. said the agency had pursued "thousands of leads and tips," initially developing "a single person of interest".
When he joined the national governing body in 1970, it was like a trade association -- an outgrowth of many charities that dated to the 19th century -- with no real authority over its thousands of autonomous affiliates, which went by no fewer than 137 names and pursued thousands of charitable objectives.
In the investigation of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the authorities pursued thousands of fruitless tips from the public before linking what seemed like an inconsequential piece of evidence from the crash scene -- a piece of a computer chip -- to Libyan terrorists, said William Baker, a former senior official at the F.B.I. who ran the investigation.
Today, the bluefin that remain are pursued by boats called long-liners that set out miles of line and tens of thousands of baited hooks.
And like the pursued heroines of 18th-century novels, the waifs of the tabloid stories seem at once abject — doomed to wander the wilderness while being poked at by the villagers wielding sticks and telephoto lenses — and trapped: sealed off in the glass dungeons of their fame.
Many republics sought independence, others sovereignty, and they all pursued policies of economic autarky.
Claims the room is one of the most significant & most pursued works of art to disappear during WWII.
