Sentence examples for pursuing the large from inspiring English sources

One former colleague, Owen Dougherty, recalled that Mr. Peebler spent years pursuing the large advertising account of the investment firm Merrill Lynch by cultivating top Merrill executives at charitable events and corporate board meetings.

These and other firms, such as Lucent and Plastic Logic, are pursuing the large market for hybrid backing electronics used for flexible displays.Already talk in labs around the world is of "polymer nanoelectronics" and "plastic spintronics".

Instead of focusing on stabilising Afghanistan and pursuing the large numbers of committed terrorists that escaped the fall of the Taliban, the Bush administration decided to widen the war on terror to carry out an act of geopolitical adventurism that had been part of the neoconservative game plan before most senior officials had even heard of al-Qaida.

Doing three paleontology postdocs in France, Berlin, and New York and writing multiple fellowship applications to fund them prepared Faysal Bibi for pursuing the large grant he needs to secure a permanent faculty position.

Maximus officials said they continued to pay Mr. Kearney for that work for eight months, while they were pursuing the larger welfare-to-work contract.

Defusing tensions in the Yellow Sea and keeping the peace at the demilitarized zone are the prerequisites for pursuing the larger goals that should govern United States policy in Korea: eliminating nuclear weapons on the peninsula and establishing normal diplomatic relations with the Pyongyang regime, all in the aim of reducing the risk of American involvement in another Korean War.

As Secretary Clinton has already noted, this commitment alone will not eradicate the problem, but it is a positive start, and it is particularly significant to have the resources of the private sector on-board when pursuing the larger target of raising $250 million in the next ten years.

That raises the issue of why the agency has been able to pursue the large institutions but does not bring cases against senior managers overseeing those companies for violations of the federal securities laws.

See, you still get to pursue the large, lazy subjects of your childhood passion, but you've now put it in a context that tells us you're a scientist first, crazy cat person second!

Making further progress would require a stronger sense of urgency, but it would also need a strategy as to what kind of problem driver to pursue: the large group of people who occasionally drink a bit too much, or the smaller but far more dangerous group of drivers who drive when very drunk?

Maximus officials say Mr. Kearney stopped helping the company pursue the larger contract.