The phrase "ahead to define" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete or misconstructed phrase that lacks context for proper usage.
Example: "We need to move ahead to define the project's objectives clearly."
Alternatives: "proceed to define" or "move forward to define".
But despite widespread consensus of trouble ahead, efforts to define the problem often degenerate into a clash of competing narratives designed to advance partisan agendas.
"They want to be ahead, they want to define what is the digital agenda in Europe," said Jan Philipp Albrecht, a German member of the European Parliament from the Green Party.
"Ahead for Obama: How to Define Terror" (Week in Review, Nov. 30) quotes several scholars who advocate for a new, "hybrid" legal framework that would allow suspected terrorists to be detained without charge or trial.
The capability to plan ahead has been proposed to define a system as to be a cognitive one (McFarland and Bösser 1993).
Marty Wilson, who managed Fiorina's 2010 campaign, said it would be important for Fiorina to "take on those charges" and get out ahead of any narrative seeking to define her as a plutocrat.
But because money raised for the election cannot be spent until after the two parties hold their nominating conventions at the end of the summer, Mr. Obama appears to have far more money available to spend in the critical weeks ahead, when each candidate seeks to define the other.
That gave the go-ahead for state health officials to define "affiliate" the way Republican lawmakers instructed — and to remove Planned Parenthood from the program.
The effort to define the way ahead in Afghanistan will also define Mr. Hagel's tenure.
They would prefer to define what lies ahead as an international police action.
As part of this I will, together with the executive team, be launching a strategy review this month to define the journey ahead.
