Sentence examples for could get ahead from inspiring English sources

Their dictators thought they could get ahead of the curve with small concessions and mean threats.

"I could get ahead of the game and do something for 2008," Mr. Deisenroth said.

"Some people said, 'She married the boss and thought she could get ahead,' " Ms. Scott Brown said in a telephone interview from her home in Philadelphia.

Sandberg's insistence that women could get ahead if only they worked harder is reminiscent of views of blacks in the 1970s.

This was supposed to be the place where, as Bill Clinton liked to put it, if you worked hard and played by the rules, you could get ahead.

While I was at it, I brought him some documentation on Fiat, Telecom, and Fininvest" — three of the largest publicly traded companies in Italy — "so he could get ahead on his work".

He was the fellow who couldn't get ahead, who couldn't break through and probably never would.

"If you look at the metrics of that campaign, the Romney people looked at it in a very linear way – the economy has not fully recovered and so you should make a change – but they missed the whole debate because the concern of the American people was how could they get ahead, how they could keep their heads above water and whether their kid would get to college.

"You could never get ahead".

But I couldn't get ahead of myself, even if this was Steeltown.

But they felt as if they could never get ahead of the bills and the market.