Sentence examples for functioning as the vanguard from inspiring English sources
Ironic to consider how this open source project is functioning as the vanguard of browser technology monopoly.
They have sometimes functioned as a vanguard (as Irving Kristol's Public Interest did with the disgruntled liberalism that would blossom into neoconservatism) and sometimes as a way of keeping unfashionable ideas alive in difficult times (as Dissent, which started at the vanguard of democratic socialism in the 1950's, has done pretty much ever since).
According to Malinkevich, the "New Pushkin" would probably represent the vanguard of large-scale social reform, functioning as a human "cudgel" to beat "mass culture".
His reporting conveyed an awe for the men and women he accompanied, with Kaplan suggesting that they could function as both diplomats and fighters, the vanguard of the American empire.
The White House described the group at the time as, "the military vanguard of Iran".
They were not advocating or emerging as the vanguard for Islamism; they were opposing it".
Furthermore, he saw the Bolsheviks who now controlled the Soviet Union as the vanguard of the world Jewish conspiracy.
The mining unions, which see themselves as the vanguard of organised labour, are also disinclined to compromise.
The young are seen by many as the vanguard of liberalism and an open society.
The editor of the local newspaper describes the city as "the vanguard of disaster".
The group likes to present itself as the vanguard of a "new pretentiousness" movement.
