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How to use the word pursues in a Sentence?

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He's too extreme for our state, he pursues conspiracy theories, he has beliefs that are just not consistent with the state of Massachusetts, it makes him not electable.

– Chris Doughty

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The United States is ready to work with any nation that steps up, that pursues peaceful resolution to shared challenges, even if we have intense disagreement to shared challenges, because we will all suffer the consequences of our failures if we don’t come together to tackle COVID-19, climate change or threats like nuclear proliferation.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is a worrisome shortage of tools for incident management in the US-China relationship. It is pretty urgent that the Danny Russel government pursues working lines of communication which allow them to respond to a crisis or to prevent a crisis. We need a 911 operator so to speak.

– Danny Russel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Democracy thrives when the infrastructure of democracy is strong. When people have the right to vote, freely and fairly and conveniently, when a free and independent press pursues the truth, founded on facts, not propaganda, when the rule of law applies equally and fairly to every citizen regardless of where they come from or what they look like.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Supreme Court's procedural order not only wipes away two lower court rulings, but it also orders dismissal of the entire dispute -- leaving for some other time resolution of the many questions Trump's conduct raised about The Emoluments Clause, ordinarily, The Supreme Court pursues such a step only when the prevailing party moots a case while the appeal is pending -- as opposed to here, where the disputes became moot because Trump's term ended.

– Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Its nothing but fake news aimed to smear China, which only indicates how crazy some people have gone to taint Chinas image and damage China-U.S. relations, china pursues an independent foreign policy of peace. We have never started a war with others, not to mention paying non-state actors to attack other countries.

– Wang Wenbin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Biden is presenting himself as a healer and healers have to deal with wounds and scars. And this is a country that has been deeply wounded and scarred, so the politics of everything from the policies he pursues, to who shows up in different meetings, to who he hires to implement his agenda -- it's all on the table.

– Nina Smith

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The great nation of Afghanistan wants an end to violence, an end to the war, a ceasefire and an enduring peace, the government is committed to achieving a dignified and sustainable peace, for which it pursues a clear plan.

– Afghan President Ashraf Ghani

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There is an irreducible thing. It's called freedom. It is native to every individual. Sometimes it rears its head in the middle of the night, and the dreamer awakes. And he asks himself: what is my freedom for? And then he begins a voyage that no device can record, measure, or analyze. If he pursues it long enough, it takes him out of the labyrinth.

– Jon Rappoport

added by Normando
4 years ago

This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.

– Thomas Paine

added by Normando
4 years ago

Stacey Abrams offers a welcome, stark contrast to President( Donald) Trump's politics of division and lack of leadership as American families are still feeling the impacts of Stacey Abrams self-imposed shutdown, stacey Abrams is a present and future leader in this country. She is a dynamic, moral leader ; she delivered results on the issues that matter most to Americans ; and she tirelessly pursues fairness and justice for everyone in her state.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It will be interesting to watch how Exxon pursues the development of InterOil's gas resources. Will it be by expanding the existing LNG plant already operating in the country, or building a brand-new project?.

– Pavel Molchanov

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It will be interesting to watch how Exxon pursues the development of InterOil's gas resources. Will it be by expanding the existing LNG plant already operating in the country, or building a brand-new project ? .

– Pavel Molchanov

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I won’t get tired of saying the truth again and again ... The enemy pursues infiltration into the elections. People must be aware of that and act against what the enemies seek.

– Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is important that Albania pursues a comprehensive, inclusive and consistent justice reform process which is essential to increase public trust in the judiciary.

– Johannes Hahn

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Success will depend on Albania's resolve to continue with reforms in an inclusive way and make them irreversible, it is important that Albania pursues a comprehensive, inclusive and consistent justice reform process which is essential to increase public trust in the judiciary.

– Johannes Hahn

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

President Putin continues to call for new peace plans as his troops roll through the Ukrainian countryside and he absolutely ignores every agreement that his country has signed in the past and he has signed recently, we, the United States, and Europe as a whole, have to stand with Ukraine at this moment. Ukraine needs our financial assistance and support as it pursues reforms and even in the face, in the face of this military onslaught.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If the government pursues too high a growth rate, it will postpone necessary structural reform, what people care more about now is structural reform. We'd like to sacrifice a little bit lower growth rate as long as we have structural reform.

– Zhou Xiaochoan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

With its eastern opening, Hungary clearly pursues an energy policy independent of the European Union, the fact that they planned to build a second pipeline from Russia and they want to increase nuclear energy production, that is what threatens Hungary's energy independence.

– Budapest André Goodfriend

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.

– I Ching

added by anonymous
14 years ago

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

– Chuang-tzu

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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