Sentence examples for ends ahead from inspiring English sources

I'm home now, just tidying up a few loose ends ahead of today's award of the Palme d'Or.

A sense of shiftiness set in the central sense of expediency, and instead of "suitable," it became "politic," more concerned with utility than with morality, setting ends ahead of means, too willing to compromise principles in a lust for power and pelf.

The funeral was ending ahead of schedule.

By any normal accounting, the chance of a Presidency ending ahead of schedule is remote.

Lawmakers appeared willing to put helping the banks through another fiscal year-end ahead of pushing them to take more drastic steps to overhaul themselves.

"There's basically three rules," he says: 1) Whoever has his front end ahead of the other has the right of way.

And Auckland, the country's congested economic capital, could well have used the tournament as a springboard for public investment, as London has done in its East End ahead of the 2012 Olympics.

WASHINGTON — One clear sign that the economy is improving: a Senate hearing featuring the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, ended ahead of schedule Thursday after the committee members ran out of questions.

But in the end, ahead of schedule and with near unanimity, Congress agreed this week on a "continuing resolution", meaning a temporary measure to finance the government in lieu of a fully fledged budget.

It was the best performance by far among the 50 or so asset classes that Morningstar follows, other than funds that bet on a declining stock market, and one of the few that ended ahead for the year.

Shares in Cor Therapeutics Inc. soared today after the company disclosed that its heart drug Integrilin had performed so well in a clinical trial that the test had been ended ahead of schedule.