Sentence examples for a swift advance from inspiring English sources
In 1857, during the mutiny, Nicholson was promoted to brigadier general after pacifying the Punjab and led a swift advance on Delhi, which had been seized by rebel forces in May.
Just when or where the battle will occur is not yet clear, but its outcome may tell us how long and difficult this campaign will be, and how effective the daring American war strategy of a swift advance deep into Iraq will prove in practice.
A swift advance by the Australians along the northern coast of the peninsula followed and in January 1944 they captured Sio.
The New York Times reported, "Scientists have cured cystic fibrosis cells in the laboratory by inserting a healthy version of the gene that causes the disease, an unexpectedly swift advance that left researchers almost giddy with delight.
Yet it stands today as a benchmark in the swift advance by the drama's leading actors toward a more civil Colombia.
In a 9 April estimate of the situation, Field Marshal List commented that as a result of the swift advance of the mobile units, his 12th Army was now in a favorable position to access central Greece by breaking the Greek build-up behind the Axios river.
While not in itself a decisive shift for a city that remained besieged, the swift advance, made with few rebel casualties, carried both signs of rebel optimism and hints of the weakness of at least one frontline loyalist unit.
It was a reasonable question: two days earlier, in response to a swift, unexpected advance of North Korean troops, Truman had ordered American forces to South Korea.
In conjunction with the captures in the centre of the line at Sheria, the occupation of Gaza enabled a swift direct advance northwards, preventing a strong consolidation of the Wadi Hesi rearguard position.
Earlier this month, Turkey offered to send 90 members of an elite unit to train the Northern Alliance, an offer put on hold by the swift advance of the Northern Alliance in the ground war.
