Sentence examples for advanced the date from inspiring English sources

B. S. Yeddyurappa, once the state's chief minister, recently broke away from the B.J.P. to found another party and advanced the date of its inauguration from Dec. 10 to Dec. 9 because astrologers told him the later date was ominous.

Amid widespread voter dissatisfaction, PSOE Prime Minister José Zapatero advanced the date of the scheduled 2012 general election to November 2011, and in that event the PP won a convincing victory.

Supporters of Not the Global Law Summit claim the government has arbitrarily advanced the date of the 800th anniversary by several months to ensure it can be held before the general election and "hijacked" Magna Carta's inheritance by turning it into a jamboree for commercial law opportunities.

The new Gregorian calendar, introduced on February 24 , 1582 in the bull Inter gravissimas ("In the gravest concern"), advanced the date by 10 days (October 4 was to be followed by October 15 that year) and relied on a new method of calculating leap years.

With the unemployment rate still topping 20 percent (more than 40 percent for job seekers under age 25) and the Spanish bond market ailing, Zapatero, who had already announced that he would not seek reelection, advanced the date of the next general election from March 2012 to November 2011.

The new viceroy, Louis Mountbatten, advanced the date for the transfer of power, believing the continuous contention between the Congress and the Muslim League might lead to a collapse of the interim government.

For some years the Association has been in favor of advancing the date of Thanksgiving.

One effect of the cutoff was to increase the flow of water out of the Mississippi and into the Atchafalaya, advancing the date of ultimate capture.

That is precisely the kind of attention that California's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, had in mind when he signed legislation to advance the date of his state's primary.

New Hampshire may move up its primary as a result — possibly even to this year — and in South Carolina, Republican officials said they, too, would advance the date of their primary.

In July 2011, as Spain's economy continued to flounder, Zapatero announced that he would advance the date of the next general election from March 2012 to November 2011.