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.
The liberals made the colonies quite advanced in matters of social reform, if not the average man's paradise that some glib publicists depicted.
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.
After my negotiation for the tablecloth was completed, Mr. Roussos and I advanced quickly from matters of world economy to where to eat, swim, stroll and sleep in Nafplio.
Either the Shockers or the Explorers will advance, no matter how obscure their universities, or their mascots, may be.
Given the minor nature of the incident and my own reluctance to advance the matter, the police have effectively closed the case.
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.
