Sentence examples for bumped ahead from inspiring English sources

Three years later, Captain Pershing was bumped ahead of more than 800 senior officers for promotion to brigadier general.

Mr. McElroy said the case began after co-workers reported suspicious activity at the agency -- people coming in without appointments, being bumped ahead of other applicants and other irregularities.

Early in grammar school, Schulz was bumped ahead a grade, which guaranteed that for the rest of his school career he would always be the smallest, skinniest, most awkward kid in the class.

If you're reporting for a print publication, you're third in line - although sometimes you can be bumped ahead of radio.

And it probably bumped ahead of education and regulation, which I think they're doing the best efforts to try and correct.

After another interview, during which he was asked if he'd have a problem working with difficult women, he was told he'd been bumped to No. 3. Naylor said he later learned that neither of the two women who were bumped ahead of him ended up passing their background investigations.

But other polls have, at times, shown Mr. Kerry or Mr. Bush bumping ahead.

It was the start motor and made the car bump ahead for a few metres, so my dad had to run for it.

"When you write $40 million worth of checks, you accumulate a lot of i.o.u.'s and can bump ahead of everyone else in line.

The Bearcats would probably bump ahead of an undefeated Boise State team because of their tougher schedule, which includes a victory at Oregon State.

In July, in the midst of a budget crisis, the Los Angeles Unified School District laid off 2,000 teachers and registered almost all of them to be substitutes, bumping ahead of veteran subs, a move roundly rejected by the local teachers union.