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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a furtherance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the act of promoting or advancing something, often in a formal or legal context.
Example: "The committee's decision was made in a furtherance of the organization's goals."
Alternatives: "an advancement" or "a promotion".
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Gabriel García Márquez's News of a Kidnapping is a furtherance of the line of questioning that began with Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
Yes, his language is extraordinary and poetic, but more a playful, inverted, musical and choreographic act of creation than a furtherance of action.
Yes, Bush has a distinctive aesthetic but this is another part of her as a performer – a furtherance of her art, rather than a tool to sell records as is, and has been, the case for many less talented artists.
But don't assume for a second that Mr. Trump's approach is a furtherance of President Obama's seeming semi-detachment of the United States from Middle East problems.
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Davis was convicted of seven counts of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, an offense punishable under the so-called mandatory minimum sentences imposed by Congress since the late 1980s.
Nevertheless, Koshy went ahead with the 851, and Young was found guilty of conspiracy with intent to possess and distribute 500 grams of cocaine and 280 grams of crack, intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a high school, and knowingly possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
The official charges are attempting to kill a US government officer and possession of a firearm in furtherance of an attempted crime of violence.
Naser Jason Abdo, 22, guilty of six charges, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, attempted murder of United States officers or employees, and possessing a weapon in furtherance of a federal crime of violence.
It gave examples, "like compelling a pharmaceutical company against its will to produce drugs needed to carry out a lethal injection in furtherance of a lawfully issued death warrant or requiring a journalist to plant a false story in order to help lure out a fugitive".
He quoted John Donne who also was changed by a near-death experience: "Though I may have seniors, others may be elder than I, yet I have proceeded apace in a good university, and gone a great way in a little time, by the furtherance of a vehement fever".
Prohibition against branch banking by national banks for most of American history is an example of a law in furtherance of these policies.
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