He resigned in 1828 and returned to France, to a leisurely retirement in literary and social pursuits.

A spirit of pragmatic innovation imbued all of Franklin's intellectual, social, and scientific pursuits.

THE fear of teen-age drug and alcohol abuse is motivating parents to help their youngsters find safer social pursuits.

At Duke, a university in the South with many students from the North, lacrosse is as much a social pursuit as an athletic one.

Backwaters has been associated with various social pursuits in the past.

Till he died on 14 October 1817, he kept himself busy in social and literary pursuits.

There are pictures of people writing and holding letters or important papers, signifying their business, scholarly or social pursuits.

But she differed from her husband regarding their banishment from the more normal social pursuits.

Participation in the 9/11 truth movement, to this group of people, is as much a social and recreational pursuit as the quest for truth.

He occupied the granary chamber but when evening came he departed on his own social pursuits.