His is the only branch designed to serve as an engine of national advancement.
The university also has been an engine of socioeconomic advancement.
Federally funded, university research has long been a major engine of scientific advancement, spurring innovations from cancer treatments to the seeds of technology companies like Google.
Given increasing labor costs, the engine of economic advancement must shift from exports and capital investment, the latter channeled mostly to oligopolistic state-owned enterprises, towards consumer spending and services.
There's no aesthetic value built into a film's provenance or budget, but as Hollywood increased its dependence on overmanaged franchise films, independent filmmaking on low and ultra-low budgets became one of the two main engines of artistic advancement in the world of movies during the past decade.
There's no aesthetic value built into a film's provenance or budget, but as Hollywood increased its dependence on overmanaged franchise films, independent filmmaking on low and ultra-low budgets became one of the two main engines of artistic advancement in the world of movies during the past decade.
In this period, publishers increasingly became engines of scientific advancement.
Verghese, too, writes of the importance of fallibility, of how imperfect thinking is not only inevitable, but also the engine of medicine's advancement.
This sense of persecution still persists today: Achebe believes that Igbo people are the engine of Nigeria's advancement, stifled by a corrupt elite that prefers power and mediocrity to meritocracy.
Collectively, this amounts to an active assault by the Bush administration on science, basic research and technological advancement, the engine of our society.
But by military markers it is a model of advancement.
