Sentence examples for Advance something from inspiring English sources

The warden said another inmate was fending off an unwanted sexual advance, something Mr. Khodorkovsky's press aides denied.

"They are divided between the need to advance something for the Americans and for Israeli public opinion, versus the lack of conviction that it will achieve anything".

Perhaps you arrived to their meeting ten minutes late without a good excuse or telling them in advance – something they consider a sign of disrespect.

The Blues became the first National Hockey League team to advance, something they failed to do last year when they were beaten in the first round by the eventual Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings.

Chen's lesson in entrepreneurship to pass along: "Be willing to look at obstacles from different angles, and then use that natural grad student's persistence and perspiration to advance something that you believe in".

Keep in mind that no matter how well you prepare in advance, something will always inevitably come up that you didn't expect.

In this sense, the director advances something of a Pu Yi cottage industry that has been taking place in China for some time.

"But I wouldn't want to rule out the possibility of advancing something if we thought we could make some progress". He was not saying what he might advance, but that is the way the Administration and Secretary Baker, the President's chief economic policy maker, often begin preparing the press for big news.

James Fitzjames Stephen advanced something that looks very much like Berlin's pluralism (Stephen 1873), though he allied it to a conservative critique of Mill's liberalism.

After the years of constant rejection to my physical advances, something just switched in my mind and she stopped being seen as a sexual partner; she became a friend.

If women are spending less time in the office, more time on household chores, and more time when in the office on activities that by their very nature may keep them from advancing, something must be done to offset these differences to help women leaders develop.