Sentence examples for advance guards from inspiring English sources

Unwieldy and expendable, these craft floated downstream to leave their cargoes and occupants as advance guards of American political and economic expansion.

The Russians likewise used the Cossacks first as defenders of the Russian frontier and later as advance guards for the territorial extension of the Russian Empire.

People say that the advance guards of the I.M.U. are beautiful female snipers armed with the latest scopes and night-vision goggles, and that the guerrillas' knapsacks are filled with dollar bills that they distribute to the farmers who feed them.

Burgoyne's troops moved in the next day, with advance guards pursuing the retreating Americans.

These are the advance guard of what's been called "the emerging-markets century".

We soon learn that they are the advance guard of an invasion force.

Jon is a member of the game world's genuinely provocative advance guard.

I was part of the advance guard, a special-teams rookie sent out to feed.

Gradually the advance guard is being joined by the IPL absentees.

But the city with its appalling advance guard of suburbs, pursues all who would flee it.

Historically, miners worldwide have been in the advance guard of social progress.