Sentence examples for a vanguard role from inspiring English sources

The communards were "a very different kind of proletariat to that which much of the left has typically cast in a vanguard role".

It quickly became apparent that Putin had his own vision of Russia: a darker, less democratic place, in which the country's spy agencies would play a vanguard role, and with Putin unequivocally in charge.

Jean E. Jackson, a professor of anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Cultural Survival had been influential in raising money and reaching legislators in developing countries and had played a "vanguard role" in informing the public "at a time when tribal peoples were being systematically annihilated" in the 1970s.

(By the time Heidegger wrote the final draft of "The Origin of the Work of Art, moreover, he is no longer assigning a vanguard role to "Germany" in the dissemination of this postmodern view, as he did in its first draft, following GA39.

It is a new right in that the European Community is at present playing a vanguard role.

In its place they invoked a vanguard role for prescient health visitors conveying the new knowledge ahead of the change in official recommendations.

In interviews Ms. Buss was remarkably modest about her vanguard role in a male-dominated profession.

Suppressing Falun Gong was presented as a necessary step to maintaining the "vanguard role" of the Communist Party in Chinese society.

And California's vanguard role in that trend is undeniable, said Jon Costantino, a former climate change planner at the California Air Resources Board who is now a senior adviser to the Sacramento law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.

The editorial says the party congress proved the Communist Party "is a mature, united, harmonious and innovative Marxist Party that can always retain its vanguard role".

When I asked one of those senior officials, Bouthaina Shaaban, whether the regime would ever loosen its grip, she told me, "We will always believe in the vanguard role of the Baath Party".