Sentence examples for pursuance from high-quality English sources.

• That was smart optics, but also the pursuance of a worldview.

• In pursuance of this luminous conception I mentioned to Biddy when I went to Mr.

• Gaps in insurance coverage can make the pursuance of telehealth solutions more difficult.

• In pursuance of Dupin’s suggestion, I made scrupulous examination of the affair of the affidavits.

• It provides that the Constitution and the laws made “in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the land.”

• On July 26, in pursuance of a new agreement with Vichy France, Japanese forces began to occupy bases in southern Indochina.

• The Soviets had been engaged in a war of self-defense, and thus, in principle, had immunity for acts performed in its pursuance.)

• The claim (dikē) might be raised by the plaintiff in pursuance of a private right or as a “public” (dēmosia) dikē for the purpose of obtaining the defendant’s punishment.

Use pursuance in a sentence.

• When Japanese troops entered northern Indochina in September 1940 (in pursuance of an agreement extorted in August from the Vichy government of France), the United States uttered a protest.

• In pursuance of that agreement, the British Army of the Indus entered Afghanistan from the south, while Ranjit Singh’s troops went through the Khyber Pass and took part in the victory parade in Kabul.

• The term FLYER has, indeed, of late years been more peculiarly applied to the man who steals the lead in pursuance of his vocation as a thief, than to him who takes it because it comes in the way of his work.

• As part of this year’s Winter Jazzfest marathons, running Jan. 10-11 at venues around Manhattan, Benjamin presents music from her upcoming project, “Pursuance,” an homage to the brilliant, timeless work of Alice and John Coltrane.

• The conference, proposed by Portugal in pursuance of its special claim to control of the Congo estuary, was necessitated by the jealousy and suspicion with which the great European powers viewed one another’s attempts at colonial expansion in Africa.

• When the Italian government, in pursuance of a Badoglio–Eisenhower agreement of September 29, declared war against Germany on October 13, 1943, Kesselring was already receiving reinforcements and consolidating the German hold on central and northern Italy.

• In like manner, the special difference that the presence of mind makes in observable cases, reflected in its unique functioning, defines the use of “mind”; “In particular, the pursuance of future ends and the choice of means for their attainment are thus the mark and criterion of the presence of mentality.”

• Coltrane’s fast-tempo, wildly expressive solo in the concert performance of “Pursuance” is eight minutes and includes a lengthy duet with Jones that, with its blend of unleashed energy and extraordinarily complex construction discovered on the wing, is one of most moving, most beautiful, most soul-searching moments that Coltrane ever recorded.

pursuance sentence examples

• From the Palace of the Tuileries, through Monseigneur and the whole Court, through the Chambers, the Tribunals of Justice, and all society (except the scarecrows), the Fancy Ball descended to the Common Executioner: who, in pursuance of the charm, was required to officiate “frizzled, powdered, in a gold-laced coat, pumps, and white silk stockings.”

• 2 This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

• Though some of the U.S. forces were then swung southwestward in the hope of seizing the Breton ports in pursuance of the original prescription of “Overlord” and though some went on in more southerly directions toward the crossings of the Loire, others were wheeled eastward—to trap, in the Falaise “pocket,” a large part of the German forces retreating southward from the pressure of the Allies’ left at Caen.

• In pursuance of these orders, the Lord Mayor, sheriffs, &c., held councils every day, more or less, for making such dispositions as they found needful for preserving the civil peace; and though they used the people with all possible gentleness and clemency, yet all manner of presumptuous rogues such as thieves, housebreakers, plunderers of the dead or of the sick, were duly punished, and several declarations were continually published by the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen against such.