These torpedo-boat destroyers, as they were called, then became super torpedo boats themselves, so that by World War I they were commonly deployed ahead of the battle fleet to scout for the enemy fleet, beat back its destroyers with cannon fire, and then launch torpedoes against its battleships and cruisers.
The major objective of the targeting stage is to calculate the most important features (commonly called targets) ahead of the strictly 'design stage', where the structure and parameters of the solution are finally determined.
Software product businesses commonly aim to be ahead of their competition by launching new products and features quickly to market.
It is evident that sophisticated technologies for the selective collection of specialized cells are a step ahead of commonly available, high throughput quantitative expression profiling technologies.
Allelic exclusion commonly occurs in pathogens that exploit antigenic variation of their cell surface proteins to keep ahead of the host immune response, usually as part of a population survival strategy.
Taking advantage of the unified analytical frame, stress and strain distributions ahead of the notch tip are determined for different nonlinear material laws, those most commonly used by engineers engaged in nonlinear notch analyses.
Winners for the The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship -- commonly known as the "genius awards" -- were leaked today on the New York Times and other sites, ahead of the official announcement at midnight.
In a study published online 29 November 2007 ahead of print in Endocrinology, researchers at the University of California, Davis, report that the commonly used antibacterial chemical triclocarban (TCC) acts as an endocrine disruptor by a previously unreported mechanism.
Or in the future, to send them the menu ahead of time, or offer a choice of two dishes for each course, something that is commonly done.
Burning embers, commonly called firebrands, are lofted by a fire's buoyant plume and transported downwind to ignite new fires (spot fires) ahead of the main fire.
