The idea behind poker is to defeat everyone else at the table, sending as many of them as possible home in so advanced a state of despair that they will question the judgment of their parents in conceiving them.
In the oceanography world, it is common to spend more than $1 million on an expedition, but a trip to the mountains at Tasil Point can easily cost 10 times as much and require submarines so advanced that only a handful of scientists know how to use them.
The fall of the Roman Empire, and equally -- if not more -- advanced Han, Mauryan and Gupta Empires, as well as so many advanced Mesopotamian Empires, are all testimony to the fact that advanced, sophisticated, complex and creative civilizations can be both fragile and impermanent.
If that all suggests a book of ravishing but frozen images, Aslam sets these pictures into motion so as to advance his story.
The findings provide broad support for the study theses and imply the need for companies to carefully plan the nature of their TC participation so as to advance the desired type of innovation.
He insisted that progression to the Champions League group stage which has been so poor, as well advancing as one round further than last year in the League Cup constituted progress.
In surveying the remains of our civilization, what would they make of a species so intellectually advanced as to understand the precise threats posed to its survival and yet so immature as to ignore these threats?
The pioneering anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor concluded that as intelligence increased, so civilization advanced.
As speeds advanced, so did structural requirements, and designers analyzed individual aircraft parts for both strength and wind resistance.
So as I advanced through the rooms a feeling of strangulation came over me.
