What's the difference between chivvy and pursue?

Chivvy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From there, I graduated to the main board, where Peter chivvied me to be bolder, to complain more loudly about BR's hopeless record on equal opportunities, to make my weight felt.
  • (2) Ms Sturgeon spoke on the close of a consultation which confirmed that the Catholic and, indeed, many other churches retain their power to chivvy their faithful into picking up a pen: two-thirds of a record-breaking 77,000 respondees registered resistance to the change.
  • (3) The government chivvies its contractors to do a thousand things correctly.
  • (4) But, he added, courts should not be used as "an instrument … [to] chivvy parliament into spring-cleaning the statute book".
  • (5) Every society has some people with all manner of problems: however much you chivvy and bully them they are unlikely to appeal to employers.
  • (6) The great Luxembourg leak last year and the work that Margaret Hodge’s public accounts committee did in chivvying Starbucks to come clean about its Dutch dealings in 2012 led to the measures now being taken.
  • (7) The near-vertical rock faces were far more challening than I was expecting and – though it pains me to say it – I wouldn't have made it to the top without Rob there to chivvy me along.
  • (8) The striker gestured with his outstretched arms and initially dragged his heels as he made his way off, until Flamini came across to chivvy him along.
  • (9) The company employed Carter-Ruck to chivvy journalists into obedient silence and then, having secured the mother of all super-injunctions, made the mistake of warning journalists that they could not even report mentions of Trafigura in parliament.
  • (10) UN warns over global fallout from debt crisis in poor countries Read more The IMF hopes the debt data published in its half-yearly fiscal report will chivvy governments into action before it is too late.
  • (11) He disliked his schooldays, although he was a useful rugby player and remembered with deep gratitude "Joe" Craddock, a master who proved kindly under his gruff exterior, and who chivvied the boys in his German class to such effect that Judt still commanded the language more than 40 years on.
  • (12) Meanwhile, on the coast of Somalia, armed ganglords chivvy the locals into a piracy expedition.
  • (13) And he was chivvying people into the government lobby!
  • (14) But the real issue is why the international community, after a seven-month air campaign, neglected post-conflict reconstruction.” “When Gaddafi died, Libya actually had, by the standards of most post-conflict states, pretty good chances of making a smooth transition to peace and stability,” Chivvis explains.
  • (15) We are not in the same situation but the rights that women assume here – not to be abused or raped, to "aspire" to equal representation in public life and at work – are being chivvied way.
  • (16) In the end, he was killed by his own citizens,” Chivvis says.
  • (17) When the Sainsbury's queue fascist approaches with the intention of chivvying me into the robot pen, I simply say, politely, "No thank you", and stay put.
  • (18) General Sharif chivvied politicians this year into giving the army sweeping new constitutional powers, including the right to try civilian terror suspects in military courts, in the wake of last year’s attack by the Pakistani Taliban on an army school in the city of Peshawar, which killed more than 130 school boys .
  • (19) If Cameron wants to liven things up, he should chivvy his hosts on a more intriguing question.
  • (20) The ad consists of Dana Chivvis, the show’s producer, recording various people on the streets of New York saying the company’s name.

Pursue


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare.
  • (v. t.) To seek; to use or adopt measures to obtain; as, to pursue a remedy at law.
  • (v. t.) To proceed along, with a view to some and or object; to follow; to go in; as, Captain Cook pursued a new route; the administration pursued a wise course.
  • (v. t.) To prosecute; to be engaged in; to continue.
  • (v. t.) To follow as an example; to imitate.
  • (v. t.) To follow with enmity; to persecute; to call to account.
  • (v. i.) To go in pursuit; to follow.
  • (v. i.) To go on; to proceed, especially in argument or discourse; to continue.
  • (v. i.) To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party; to act as a prosecutor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
  • (2) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
  • (3) We have now started a prospective follow-up study in order to pursue the development of (a) p-ERG amplitudes and (b) funduscopic changes and visual acuity in these patients.
  • (4) Principal conclusions are: 1) rapid change to predominantly heterosexual HIV transmission can occur in North America, with serious societal impact; 2) gender-specific clinical features can lead to earlier diagnosis of HIV infection in women; 3) HIV infection in women does not pursue an inherently more rapid course than that observed in men.
  • (5) These results suggest that ED2+ macrophages, TRPM-3+ macrophages, and Ia+ dendritic cells are distinct cell lines that pursue independent developmental process in spleen ontogeny.
  • (6) In conclusion, 1) etiology of urinary tract stone in all recurrent stone formers and in all patients with multiple stones must be pursued, and 2) all stones either removed or passed must be subjected to infrared spectrometry.
  • (7) And that is why we have taken bold action at home – by making historic investments in renewable energy; by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in our homes and buildings; and by pursuing comprehensive legislation to transform to a clean energy economy.
  • (8) He said he will pursue new measures, including demolishing the homes of instigators.
  • (9) Pfizer kept up its efforts to get AstraZeneca to the negotiating table over its £63bn approach as it reported revenue well below Wall Street expectations, underscoring its interest in pursuing its UK rival to promote new business growth.
  • (10) Bostock, who is long thought to have had a tense relationship with chief executive Marc Bolland , is departing by "mutual consent to pursue other interests" on 1 October, when she will also leave the M&S board.
  • (11) We are effectively in funding limbo Professor Barney Glover, Universities Australia chair Glover was also set to emphasise the need for affordability because “cost must not deter any capable student from pursuing a university education”.
  • (12) Many cases before the commissioner remain unresolved, although those who wish to pursue matters to the tribunal as part of the transitional arrangements will not have to pay an additional fee to appeal to the tribunal.
  • (13) "And if you're pursuing music as the equivalent of your nine-to-five, and you'd quite like to be doing that for years to come, it's in your interest not to rock the boat."
  • (14) Residents of Cardiff , Cumbria and Plymouth are either dallying with the idea or actively pursuing it.
  • (15) According to his blog, he's been acting on the advice of a friend and pursuing a course of "silence, exile and cunning", but I'm not sure a couple of years of not giving interviews to Heat qualifies.
  • (16) However, further studies involving more patients are required to pursue this hypothesis.
  • (17) That is the strategy I’m pursuing in Nehalem, Oregon , where I recently ran for mayor.
  • (18) Other findings showed highly satisfactory to above average performance of graduates whether based on residency supervisors' evaluations or self-evaluations and higher ratings for the graduates who selected surgery residency programs than for those pursuing other disciplines.
  • (19) A hypothetical scheme is presented that pursues the processes involved in invasion from the biochemical events generated by attachment of the parasite, to the steric rearrangement of red cell membrane proteins, which culminates in invasion.
  • (20) While Claude Moraes MEP's committee on surveillance is admirably pursuing this agenda, member states remain unresponsive.

Words possibly related to "chivvy"