Does the team have a chance of advancing much further?
Last year's intelligence report concluded that North Korea's long-range missile program had advanced much further than previously believed.
"Materially, we east Germans have advanced much further than our neighbors in Central Europe, but spiritually we are miserable," Ms. Margolina wrote in Tagesspiegel.
"We are on our way to a destabilization of the world climate that has advanced much further than most people or their governments realize".
But they will be favourites to earn gold again against the Scandinavians, who were not expected to advance much further than the quarter-finals, having been a team in transition.
They were not supposed to advance much further without the injured Kevin Garnett, and it was hard to imagine the burly tandem of Perkins and Davis, known as Big Baby, logging more than 40 minutes through an entire postseason series, let alone a draining seven-game duel.
Were it not for the PKK, which Öcalan launched with the murder of two Turkish soldiers in 1984, it is possible that the forced assimilation of the Kurds into mainstream Turkish society would have advanced much further, and the epiphanies of Demirtaş and others may not have happened.
The rebels, who have their eyes set on Qardaha, the Assads' home village, may find it hard to advance much further since the area is well defended by the army and local groups of the National Defense Force (NDF), a nationwide paramilitary network.
In a post titled "Compelled to Act", Moskovitz explains the donation, saying, "If Secretary Clinton wins the election, America will advance much further toward the world we hope to see," which is one that of "increased tolerance, diversity and interdependence in the name of mutual prosperity".
Meanwhile, if you're interested in why the American Jobs Act, having been introduced, may not advance much further down the legislative process, it's because there are people who don't want to touch it.
