Pursual

Of course, between you and me, those investigations could very well lead to the uncovering of information that would virtually mandate pursual of impeachment. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Ditto a lot of the more mainstream fiction that I've picked up over the last year or two, and likewise going the way of McKay Used Books and CDs is a great deal of stuff I've got leftover from my days of degree-pursual (why oh WHY do I still own SO MUCH of this crap?). ❋ Unknown (2004)

We have thought it worth while to give in detail this method of teaching to read, because it is the most entertaining to children to be taught so, and because many successful instances of the pursual of this plan have come under our observation; and one advantage of it has been, that the children so taught, though never going through the common spelling-lessons, have uniformly exhibited a rare exactness in orthography. ❋ Various (N/A)

Great confusion daily arises from the constant pursual of a different course. ❋ William H. Fowler (1864)

His plans for the pursual of his ideas and feelings upon this subject had been communicated to his late ward in an urgent and important paper, which his Grace had never seen, but one day, unread, pushed into a certain black cabinet, which perhaps the reader may remember. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

Thus journalist Jacques Peretti's sensationalising pursual of the flimsier rumours and hypotheses surrounding Woods's rise and demise during his 90-minute film felt like gilding the lily - this subject was sensational already. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Iran and North Korea's eager pursual for nuclear programs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I realized that one major reason I was so dogged in my pursual of writing during the 10-12 years I was seeing no success was that it gave me an identity, and I desperately needed one because I did not want the only other identities that seemed like options: depressed girl, lost girl, child of alcoholic, voted 'most likely to succeed' in the eighth grade yearbook poll (could that really be the apex for me??), girl who sits in front of TV night after night eating way too much food. ❋ Unknown (2008)