Sentence examples for pursuits rather than from inspiring English sources

People sought enjoyment and satisfaction more and more through individual pursuits, rather than in families.

Most of the classroom time at West Point was spent on scientific pursuits, rather than the study of battles.

Highly gifted children tend to forge friendships the way adults do -- on the basis of shared interests and coincidental pursuits, rather than falling into packs according to grade.

Hunters motivated by recreational pursuits rather than a genuine desire to rid the countryside of a pest have also been known to protect the young animals or deliberately introduce feral animals to favoured hunting sites so their sport can continue in the future.

"It shifted the funding to global warming pursuits rather than carry out NASA's core mission".

Even if things like the academic study of the humanities and philosophy were to lead people to happier lives -- they don't, because they are academic pursuits rather than embodied ones -- universities are currently incentivizing students not to study those most useless disciplines.

Now there are a group of companies committed to reclaiming the vinyl collection as an honourable pursuit rather than an ephemeral fetish or a "lifestyle choice".

Tucker said the problem was that governments still saw comet and asteroid-spotting as an academic pursuit rather than an early-warning system.

It's been linked with pleasure conventionally, but its main function is to promote desire and goal pursuit rather than pleasure per se.

Redfern's images brought subcultures out into the open, and he often made jazz look like an open and exuberant pursuit, rather than a dark and downbeat one.

We've dressed up our interest in celebrity as if it's some sort of meaningful pursuit rather than the pure escapism that it is.