Sentence examples for pursuit instead of from inspiring English sources

A friend who prefers the sight of a pillow calls this not-yet-trendy pursuit "(instead of) sleep walking".

Even when a group of Spartan cavalrymen arrived, the Spartan commander made the curious decision that they should keep pace with the hoplites in pursuit, instead of racing ahead to ride down the fleeing peltasts.

In the British independent production sector there are worries that money is going on international pursuits instead of being reinvested in programme-making.

Perhaps their neural wiring had enhanced their musical pursuits instead of the other way around.

Thomas, 25, has chosen to defend his men's pursuit title instead of racing in cycling's premier road race.

They think either that philosophy of science is an armchair pursuit – woolly metaphysics instead of hard physics – or they think the job of philosophy of science is to help train scientists do their job.

The pursuit of love instead of bowling maiden overs paid off, with Azharullah - in his debut season in English county cricket - on his way to Twenty20 finals day with Northamptonshire as the competition's top wicket-taker.

Historian Ray Forrest Harvey declared in 1937, as he argued for the dominant influence of the Swiss jurist Jean Jacques Burlamaqui, that Jefferson and Locke were at "two opposite poles" in their political philosophy, as evidenced by Jefferson's use in the Declaration of Independence of the phrase "pursuit of happiness" instead of "property".

We propose a new approach for solving games in scenarios with stochasticity (i.e., scenarios in which there is some randomness), which consists in solving a pursuit-evasion game instead of a capacity one using an approximation.

Another comparison made was to The Next Generation "Hollow Pursuits", saying that "instead of [Reginald] Barclay using the holodeck to enact his fantasies with people he can't bear to deal with in real life, Bashir is forced to keep his made up world going if he wants to save the lives of his friends".

Comparing with traditional PEC photoanode for water splitting, it requires the photoanode providing a suitable cathodic potential for the metal, instead of pursuit ultimate photon to electric conversion efficiency, thus it is a more possible PEC technology for engineering application.