The phrase "advance matters" is not commonly used in written English and may be unclear in meaning.
It could be used in contexts where one is discussing the progression or improvement of issues or topics, but it may require additional context for clarity.
Example: "In our meeting, we need to focus on how we can advance matters related to project development."
Alternatives: "promote issues" or "progress topics".
A pamphlet for the Legatum think-tank, based on a commission chaired by the former head of the civil service, Lord O'Donnell, attempts to advance matters by pushing for more standardised measurements.
Mr. Coulson, who carries broad powers as a member of Mr. Cameron's inner policy circle, has denied the charges, and prosecutors said Friday that the witnesses they had interviewed "either refused to cooperate with the police investigation, provided short statements which did not advance matters or denied any knowledge of wrongdoing".
He said: "A number of other witnesses were interviewed and either refused to co-operate with the police investigation, provided short statements which did not advance matters, or denied any knowledge of wrongdoing.
Yet the broadly inclusive nature of these advances matters a great deal if you care about fairness in the U.S. economy.
However minimally, it must advance – in subject matter, in means of expression – our understanding of ourselves, of ourselves in the world.
Some irritating vacation behaviors cannot be ascertained in advance, no matter how hard one tries.
Either the Shockers or the Explorers will advance, no matter how obscure their universities, or their mascots, may be.
The liberals made the colonies quite advanced in matters of social reform, if not the average man's paradise that some glib publicists depicted.
Given the minor nature of the incident and my own reluctance to advance the matter, the police have effectively closed the case.
Those Americans who decry institutions of public education as "government schools" are unlikely to regard the opening of more public-school classrooms to even younger children as an unassailable advance, no matter what positive outcomes the early-education research shows.
Schieffer says that he thinks that the sequester will get triggered and there will be some after-the-fact mop up where they "kick the can down the road" and advance the matter a little bit in the debate over the continuing resolution, which sounds likely to me.
